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Deep Graph Convolutional Network and LSTM based approach for predicting drug-target binding affinity

Machine Learning 2022-01-19 v1 Quantitative Methods

Abstract

Development of new drugs is an expensive and time-consuming process. Due to the world-wide SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, it is essential that new drugs for SARS-CoV-2 are developed as soon as possible. Drug repurposing techniques can reduce the time span needed to develop new drugs by probing the list of existing FDA-approved drugs and their properties to reuse them for combating the new disease. We propose a novel architecture DeepGLSTM, which is a Graph Convolutional network and LSTM based method that predicts binding affinity values between the FDA-approved drugs and the viral proteins of SARS-CoV-2. Our proposed model has been trained on Davis, KIBA (Kinase Inhibitor Bioactivity), DTC (Drug Target Commons), Metz, ToxCast and STITCH datasets. We use our novel architecture to predict a Combined Score (calculated using Davis and KIBA score) of 2,304 FDA-approved drugs against 5 viral proteins. On the basis of the Combined Score, we prepare a list of the top-18 drugs with the highest binding affinity for 5 viral proteins present in SARS-CoV-2. Subsequently, this list may be used for the creation of new useful drugs.

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@article{arxiv.2201.06872,
  title  = {Deep Graph Convolutional Network and LSTM based approach for predicting drug-target binding affinity},
  author = {Shrimon Mukherjee and Madhusudan Ghosh and Partha Basuchowdhuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.06872},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted for publication in the proceedings of SIAM Data Mining conference 2022 (SDM'22)

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