NRGCNMDA: Microbe-Drug Association Prediction Based on Residual Graph Convolutional Networks and Conditional Random Fields.

Journal: Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
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Abstract

The process of discovering new drugs related to microbes through traditional biological methods is lengthy and costly. In response to these issues, a new computational model (NRGCNMDA) is proposed to predict microbe-drug associations. First, Node2vec is used to extract potential associations between microorganisms and drugs, and a heterogeneous network of microbes and drugs is constructed. Then, a Graph Convolutional Network incorporating a fusion residual network mechanism (REGCN) is utilized to learn meaningful high-order similarity features. In addition, conditional random fields (CRF) are applied to ensure that microbes and drugs have similar feature embeddings. Finally, unobserved microbe-drug associations are scored based on combined embeddings. The experimental findings demonstrate that the NRGCNMDA approach outperforms several existing deep learning methods, and its AUC and AUPR values are 95.16% and 93.02%, respectively. The case study demonstrates that NRGCNMDA accurately predicts drugs associated with Enterococcus faecalis and Listeria monocytogenes, as well as microbes associated with ibuprofen and tetracycline.

Authors

  • Xiaoxin Du
    Computer and Control Engineering College, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China.
  • Jingwei Li
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Med-X Center for Manufacturing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China.
  • Bo Wang
    Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine Center, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Hospital, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China.
  • Jianfei Zhang
    College of Mathematics and Informatics, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China; Département d'Informatique, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada. Electronic address: jianfei.zhang@usherbrooke.ca.
  • Tongxuan Wang
    Department of Anaesthesiology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, China.
  • Junqi Wang