Graph Machine Learning (GML) is receiving growing interest within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries for its ability to model biomolecular structures, the functional relationships between them, and integrate multi-omic datasets - amongst other data types. Herein, we present a multidisciplinary academic-industrial review of the topic within the context of drug discovery and development. After introducing key terms and modelling approaches, we move chronologically through the drug development pipeline to identify and summarise work incorporating: target identification, design of small molecules and biologics, and drug repurposing. Whilst the field is still emerging, key milestones including repurposed drugs entering in vivo studies, suggest graph machine learning will become a modelling framework of choice within biomedical machine learning.
@article{arxiv.2012.05716,
title = {Utilising Graph Machine Learning within Drug Discovery and Development},
author = {Thomas Gaudelet and Ben Day and Arian R. Jamasb and Jyothish Soman and Cristian Regep and Gertrude Liu and Jeremy B. R. Hayter and Richard Vickers and Charles Roberts and Jian Tang and David Roblin and Tom L. Blundell and Michael M. Bronstein and Jake P. Taylor-King},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05716},
year = {2021}
}