DeepCompoundNet: enhancing compound-protein interaction prediction with multimodal convolutional neural networks.

Journal: Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics
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Abstract

Virtual screening has emerged as a valuable computational tool for predicting compound-protein interactions, offering a cost-effective and rapid approach to identifying potential candidate drug molecules. Current machine learning-based methods rely on molecular structures and their relationship in the network. The former utilizes information such as amino acid sequences and chemical structures, while the latter leverages interaction network data, such as protein-protein interactions, drug-disease interactions, and protein-disease interactions. However, there has been limited exploration of integrating molecular information with interaction networks. This study presents DeepCompoundNet, a deep learning-based model that integrates protein features, drug properties, and diverse interaction data to predict chemical-protein interactions. DeepCompoundNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods for compound-protein interaction prediction, as demonstrated through performance evaluations. Our findings highlight the complementary nature of multiple interaction data, extending beyond amino acid sequence homology and chemical structure similarity. Moreover, our model's analysis confirms that DeepCompoundNet gets higher performance in predicting interactions between proteins and chemicals not observed in the training samples.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.

Authors

  • Farnaz Palhamkhani
    Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemistry, School of Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
  • Milad Alipour
    Department of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Network Science and Technology, College of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
  • Abbas Dehnad
    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Karim Abbasi
    Laboratory of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (LBB), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417614411, Iran.
  • Parvin Razzaghi
    Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 4513766731, Iran.
  • Jahan B Ghasemi
    Drug Design in Silico Lab., Chemistry Faculty, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.