CNN-DDI: a learning-based method for predicting drug-drug interactions using convolution neural networks.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are the reactions between drugs. They are compartmentalized into three types: synergistic, antagonistic and no reaction. As a rapidly developing technology, predicting DDIs-associated events is getting more and more attention and application in drug development and disease diagnosis fields. In this work, we study not only whether the two drugs interact, but also specific interaction types. And we propose a learning-based method using convolution neural networks to learn feature representations and predict DDIs.

Authors

  • Chengcheng Zhang
    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
  • Yao Lu
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo, China.
  • Tianyi Zang
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. tianyi.zang@hit.edu.cn.