{"title":"Deep graph learning in molecular docking: Advances and opportunities","authors":"Norberto Sánchez-Cruz","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100062","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100062","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>One of the main computational tools for structure-based drug discovery is molecular docking. Due to the natural representation of molecules as graphs (a set of nodes/atoms connected through edges/bonds), Deep Graph Learning has been successfully applied for multiple tasks on this area. This work presents an overview of Deep Graph Learning methods developed within this research field, as well as opportunities for future development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100062"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48198299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yojana Gadiya , Philip Gribbon , Martin Hofmann-Apitius , Andrea Zaliani
{"title":"Pharmaceutical patent landscaping: A novel approach to understand patents from the drug discovery perspective","authors":"Yojana Gadiya , Philip Gribbon , Martin Hofmann-Apitius , Andrea Zaliani","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Patents play a crucial role in the drug discovery process by providing legal protection for discoveries and incentivising investments in research and development. By identifying patterns within patent data resources, researchers can gain insight into the market trends and priorities of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, as well as provide additional perspectives on more fundamental aspects such as the emergence of potential new drug targets. In this paper, we used the patent enrichment tool, PEMT, to extract, integrate, and analyse patent literature for rare diseases (RD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). This is followed by a systematic review of the underlying patent landscape to decipher trends and applications in patents for these diseases. To do so, we discuss prominent organisations involved in drug discovery research in AD and RD. This allows us to gain an understanding of the importance of AD and RD from specific organisational (pharmaceutical or university) perspectives. Next, we analyse the historical focus of patents in relation to individual therapeutic targets and correlate them with market scenarios allowing the identification of prominent targets for a disease. Lastly, we identified drug repurposing activities within the two diseases with the help of patents. This resulted in identifying existing repurposed drugs and novel potential therapeutic approaches applicable to the indication areas. The study demonstrates the expanded applicability of patent documents from legal to drug discovery, design, and research, thus, providing a valuable resource for future drug discovery efforts. Moreover, this study is an attempt towards understanding the importance of data underlying patent documents and raising the need for preparing the data for machine learning-based applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100069"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49774974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José Teófilo Moreira-Filho , Meryck Felipe Brito da Silva , Joyce Villa Verde Bastos Borba , Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão Filho , Eugene N Muratov , Carolina Horta Andrade , Rodolpho de Campos Braga , Bruno Junior Neves
{"title":"Artificial intelligence systems for the design of magic shotgun drugs","authors":"José Teófilo Moreira-Filho , Meryck Felipe Brito da Silva , Joyce Villa Verde Bastos Borba , Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão Filho , Eugene N Muratov , Carolina Horta Andrade , Rodolpho de Campos Braga , Bruno Junior Neves","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Designing magic shotgun compounds, i.e., compounds hitting multiple targets using artificial intelligence (AI) systems based on machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) approaches, has a huge potential to revolutionize drug discovery. Such intelligent systems enable computers to create new chemical structures and predict their multi-target properties at a low cost and in a time-efficient manner. Most examples of AI applied to drug discovery are single-target oriented and there is still a lack of concise information regarding the application of this technology for the discovery of multi-target drugs or drugs with broad-spectrum action. In this review, we focus on current developments in AI systems for the next generation of automated design of multi-target drugs. We discuss how classical ML methods, cutting-edge generative models, and multi-task deep neural networks can help <em>de novo</em> design and hit-to-lead optimization of multi-target drugs. Moreover, we present state-of-the-art workflows and highlight some studies demonstrating encouraging experimental results, which pave the way for <em>de novo</em> drug design and multi-target drug discovery.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100055"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43297571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sabrina Silva-Mendonça , Arthur Ricardo de Sousa Vitória , Telma Woerle de Lima , Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão-Filho , Carolina Horta Andrade
{"title":"Exploring new horizons: Empowering computer-assisted drug design with few-shot learning","authors":"Sabrina Silva-Mendonça , Arthur Ricardo de Sousa Vitória , Telma Woerle de Lima , Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão-Filho , Carolina Horta Andrade","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Computational approaches have revolutionized the field of drug discovery, collectively known as Computer-Assisted Drug Design (CADD). Advancements in computing power, data generation, digitalization, and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have played a crucial role in the rise of CADD. These approaches offer numerous benefits, enabling the analysis and interpretation of vast amounts of data from diverse sources, such as genomics, structural information, and clinical trials data. By integrating and analyzing these multiple data sources, researchers can efficiently identify potential drug targets and develop new drug candidates. Among the AI techniques, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have shown tremendous promise in drug discovery. ML and DL models can effectively utilize experimental data to accurately predict the efficacy and safety of drug candidates. However, despite these advancements, certain areas in drug discovery face data scarcity, particularly in neglected, rare, and emerging viral diseases. Few-shot learning (FSL) is an emerging approach that addresses the challenge of limited data in drug discovery. FSL enables ML models to learn from a small number of examples of a new task, achieving commendable performance by leveraging knowledge learned from related datasets or prior information. It often involves meta-learning, which trains a model to learn how to learn from few data. This ability to quickly adapt to new tasks with low data circumvents the need for extensive training on large datasets. By enabling efficient learning from a small amount of data, few-shot learning has the potential to accelerate the drug discovery process and enhance the success rate of drug development. In this review, we introduce the concept of few-shot learning and its application in drug discovery. Furthermore, we demonstrate the valuable application of few-shot learning in the identification of new drug targets, accurate prediction of drug efficacy, and the design of novel compounds possessing desired biological properties. This comprehensive review draws upon numerous papers from the literature to provide extensive insights into the effectiveness and potential of few-shot learning in these critical areas of drug discovery and development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100086"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49711348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Negin Sadat Babaiha , Hassan Elsayed , Bide Zhang , Abish Kaladharan , Priya Sethumadhavan , Bruce Schultz , Jürgen Klein , Bruno Freudensprung , Vanessa Lage-Rupprecht , Alpha Tom Kodamullil , Marc Jacobs , Stefan Geissler , Sumit Madan , Martin Hofmann-Apitius
{"title":"A natural language processing system for the efficient updating of highly curated pathophysiology mechanism knowledge graphs","authors":"Negin Sadat Babaiha , Hassan Elsayed , Bide Zhang , Abish Kaladharan , Priya Sethumadhavan , Bruce Schultz , Jürgen Klein , Bruno Freudensprung , Vanessa Lage-Rupprecht , Alpha Tom Kodamullil , Marc Jacobs , Stefan Geissler , Sumit Madan , Martin Hofmann-Apitius","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"4 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49711376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Astrid Stroobants , Lewis H. Mervin , Ola Engkvist , Graeme R. Robb
{"title":"An industrial evaluation of proteochemometric modelling: Predicting drug-target affinities for kinases","authors":"Astrid Stroobants , Lewis H. Mervin , Ola Engkvist , Graeme R. Robb","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ailsci.2023.100079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"4 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49711377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coupled encoding methods for antimicrobial peptide prediction: How sensitive is a highly accurate model?","authors":"Ivan Erjavac , Daniela Kalafatovic , Goran Mauša","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Current application of machine learning in the process of antimicrobial peptide discovery call for the reduction of the false positive predictions that are produced by the classification models. Considering that the positive predictions of high confidence drive modern experimental design, the model’s sensitivity is crucial to reduce the number of unnecessary <em>in vitro</em> tests. Furthermore, taking into account the expert-based design approaches that employ random mutations on confirmed sequences, the machine learning models are required to distinguish between subtle differences among shuffled sequences. With the goal of reducing the false positive rate and improving sensitivity, we propose a hybrid approach to antimicrobial peptide prediction that utilizes combined encoding models. To this end, we implement models that employ both the physico-chemical features and sequence ordering information to stress the importance of using both representations. We also investigate the usage of binary encoding for peptide representation purposes, a method that is insufficiently represented in related research, which proved to act as a viable low dimensional alternative to the one-hot encoding. Our results, supported by Cochran and McNemar statistical tests and Spearman correlation analysis, indicate that the sequence-based encodings complement the physico-chemical features and their synergic effect yields improvement in terms of every evaluation metric. Finally, the proposed hybrid approach that combines physico-chemical features and binary encoding using logical conjunction was shown to be superior to other single models by a factor of 2.96 in terms of fall-out and up to 6.1% in terms of precision.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100034"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667318522000058/pdfft?md5=3f5cf3ee0ab97ece8587283b98a0d00f&pid=1-s2.0-S2667318522000058-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49610236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhenwu Yang , Yujia Tian , Yue Kong , Yushan Zhu , Aixia Yan
{"title":"Classification of JAK1 Inhibitors and SAR Research by Machine Learning Methods","authors":"Zhenwu Yang , Yujia Tian , Yue Kong , Yushan Zhu , Aixia Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Janus kinase 1 (JAK1) is a key regulator of gene transcription, inhibition of JAK1 is an intervention for many diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease. In this study, we collected a dataset containing 2982 JAK1 inhibitors, characterized molecules by MACCS fingerprints and Morgan fingerprints. We used support vector machine (SVM), decision tree (DT), random forest (RF) and extreme gradient boosting tree (XGBoost) algorithms to build 16 traditional machine learning classification models. Additionally, we utilized deep neural networks (DNN) to develop four deep learning models. The best model (Model 3B) built by RF and Morgan fingerprints achieved the accuracy (ACC) of 93.6% and Mathews correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.87 on the test set. Furthermore, we made structure–activity relationship (SAR) analyses for JAK1 inhibitors, based on the output from the random forest models. After analyzing the important keys of two types of fingerprints, it was observed that some substructures such as pyrazole, pyrrolotriazolopyrimidine and pyrazolopyrimidine appeared frequently in highly active JAK1 inhibitors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100039"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667318522000101/pdfft?md5=2754446c7965603153a27ece060160a4&pid=1-s2.0-S2667318522000101-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91728648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu Feng , Yuyao Yang , Wenbin Deng , Hongming Chen , Ting Ran
{"title":"SyntaLinker-Hybrid: A deep learning approach for target specific drug design","authors":"Yu Feng , Yuyao Yang , Wenbin Deng , Hongming Chen , Ting Ran","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Target specific drug design has attracted much attention in drug discovery. But, it is a great challenge to efficiently explore the target-focused chemical space. Fragment-based drug design (FBDD) has shown its potential to do this thing. In this study, we introduced a deep learning-based fragment linking method, namely SyntaLinker-Hybrid, for target specific molecular generation. By carrying out transfer learning and fragment hybridization, this method allows to generate a great number of linker fragments to assemble given terminal fragments into the molecules with target specificity. This work demonstrates that the method has the capacity to generate target specific structures for various targets. We believe that its application could be extended to a broader target scope.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100035"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266731852200006X/pdfft?md5=18b885672aac997f6abccdc3b5e58b84&pid=1-s2.0-S266731852200006X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90029604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An unsupervised computational pipeline identifies potential repurposable drugs to treat Huntington's disease and multiple sclerosis","authors":"Luca Menestrina, Maurizio Recanatini","doi":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ailsci.2022.100042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drug repurposing consists in identifying additional uses for known drugs and, since these new findings are built on previous knowledge, it reduces both the length and the costs of the drug development. In this work, we assembled an automated computational pipeline for drug repurposing, integrating also a network-based analysis for screening the possible drug combinations. The selection of drugs relies both on their proximity to the disease on the protein-protein interactome and on their influence on the expression of disease-related genes. Combined therapies are then prioritized on the basis of the drugs’ separation on the human interactome and the known drug-drug interactions. We eventually collected a number of molecules, and their plausible combinations, that could be proposed for the treatment of Huntington's disease and multiple sclerosis. Finally, this pipeline could potentially provide new suggestions also for other complex disorders.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72304,"journal":{"name":"Artificial intelligence in the life sciences","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100042"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667318522000125/pdfft?md5=02a08224e3d5097be5747fc8a22c3572&pid=1-s2.0-S2667318522000125-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42636492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}