MHADTI: predicting drug-target interactions via multiview heterogeneous information network embedding with hierarchical attention mechanisms.

Journal: Briefings in bioinformatics
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Discovering the drug-target interactions (DTIs) is a crucial step in drug development such as the identification of drug side effects and drug repositioning. Since identifying DTIs by web-biological experiments is time-consuming and costly, many computational-based approaches have been proposed and have become an efficient manner to infer the potential interactions. Although extensive effort is invested to solve this task, the prediction accuracy still needs to be improved. More especially, heterogeneous network-based approaches do not fully consider the complex structure and rich semantic information in these heterogeneous networks. Therefore, it is still a challenge to predict DTIs efficiently.

Authors

  • Zhen Tian
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, People's Republic of China.
  • Xiangyu Peng
    School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450000, China.
  • Haichuan Fang
    School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450000, China.
  • Wenjie Zhang
    Laboratory of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Chengdu, 610041, People's Republic of China.
  • Qiguo Dai
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, 116600, Dalian, China.
  • Yangdong Ye
    School of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, China. Electronic address: ieydye@zzu.edu.cn.