Prediction of anticancer drug sensitivity using an interpretable model guided by deep learning.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The prediction of drug sensitivity plays a crucial role in improving the therapeutic effect of drugs. However, testing the effectiveness of drugs is challenging due to the complex mechanism of drug reactions and the lack of interpretability in most machine learning and deep learning methods. Therefore, it is imperative to establish an interpretable model that receives various cell line and drug feature data to learn drug response mechanisms and achieve stable predictions between available datasets.

Authors

  • Weixiong Pang
    College of Information Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Hucheng Ring Road, Shanghai, China.
  • Ming Chen
    Department of Critical Care Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
  • Yufang Qin