AutoDTI++: deep unsupervised learning for DTI prediction by autoencoders.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Drug-target interaction (DTI) plays a vital role in drug discovery. Identifying drug-target interactions related to wet-lab experiments are costly, laborious, and time-consuming. Therefore, computational methods to predict drug-target interactions are an essential task in the drug discovery process. Meanwhile, computational methods can reduce search space by proposing potential drugs already validated on wet-lab experiments. Recently, deep learning-based methods in drug-target interaction prediction have gotten more attention. Traditionally, DTI prediction methods' performance heavily depends on additional information, such as protein sequence and molecular structure of the drug, as well as deep supervised learning.

Authors

  • Seyedeh Zahra Sajadi
    Department of Computer Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.
  • Mohammad Ali Zare Chahooki
    Department of Computer Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. chahooki@yazd.ac.ir.
  • Sajjad Gharaghani
    Laboratory of Bioinformatics & Drug Design (LBD), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: s.gharaghani@ut.ac.ir.
  • Karim Abbasi
    Laboratory of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (LBB), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417614411, Iran.