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One of the promising methods for the treatment of complex diseases such as cancer is combinational therapy. Due to the combinatorial complexity, machine learning models can be useful in this field, where significant improvements have…

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For large libraries of small molecules, exhaustive combinatorial chemical screens become infeasible to perform when considering a range of disease models, assay conditions, and dose ranges. Deep learning models have achieved state of the…

Drug discovery remains a slow and expensive process that involves many steps, from detecting the target structure to obtaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is often riddled with safety concerns. Accurate…

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Drug combination refers to the use of two or more drugs to treat a specific disease at the same time. It is currently the mainstream way to treat complex diseases. Compared with single drugs, drug combinations have better efficacy and can…

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Drug development is an expensive and time-consuming process where thousands of chemical compounds are being tested in order to find those possessing drug-like properties while being safe and effective. One of key parts of the early drug…

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Motivation: Drug combination is a sensible strategy for disease treatment by improving the efficacy and reducing concomitant side effects. Due to the large number of possible combinations among candidate compounds, exhaustive screening is…

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Drug resistance is still a major challenge in cancer therapy. Drug combination is expected to overcome drug resistance. However, the number of possible drug combinations is enormous, and thus it is infeasible to experimentally screen all…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-20 Tianyu Zhang , Liwei Zhang , Philip R. O. Payne , Fuhai Li

Drug combination therapies have shown promising therapeutic efficacy in complex diseases and have demonstrated the potential to reduce drug resistance. However, the huge number of possible drug combinations makes it difficult to screen them…

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Drug discovery requires a tremendous amount of time and cost. Computational drug-target interaction prediction, a significant part of this process, can reduce these requirements by narrowing the search space for wet lab experiments. In this…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-27 Mohammad Molaee , Nasrollah Moghadam Charkari , Foad Ghaderi

Drug synergy arises when the combined impact of two drugs exceeds the sum of their individual effects. While single-drug effects on cell lines are well-documented, the scarcity of data on drug synergy, considering the vast array of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-29 Kyriakos Schwarz , Alicia Pliego-Mendieta , Amina Mollaysa , Lara Planas-Paz , Chantal Pauli , Ahmed Allam , Michael Krauthammer

Drug synergy, characterized by the amplified combined effect of multiple drugs, is critically important for optimizing therapeutic outcomes. Limited data on drug synergy, arising from the vast number of possible drug combinations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Oleksii Tsepa , Bohdan Naida , Anna Goldenberg , Bo Wang

In recent decades, traditional drug research and development have been facing challenges such as high cost, long timelines, and high risks. To address these issues, many computational approaches have been suggested for predicting the…

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Drug synergy is profoundly influenced by cellular context, as variations in protein interaction landscapes and pathway activities across cell types reshape how drugs act in combination. Most existing models overlook this heterogeneity,…

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Current pharmaceutical formulation development still strongly relies on the traditional trial-and-error approach by individual experiences of pharmaceutical scientists, which is laborious, time-consuming and costly. Recently, deep learning…

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Predicting synergistic drug combinations can help accelerate discovery of cancer treatments, particularly therapies personalized to a patient's specific tumor via biopsied cells. In this paper, we propose a novel setting and models for…

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Repurposing existing drugs to treat new diseases is a cost-effective alternative to de novo drug development, but there are millions of potential drug-disease combinations to be considered with only a small fraction being viable. In silico…

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Medicinal synergy prediction is a powerful tool in drug discovery and development that harnesses the principles of combination therapy to enhance therapeutic outcomes by improving efficacy, reducing toxicity, and preventing drug resistance.…

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Effective therapy of complex diseases requires control of highly non-linear complex networks that remain incompletely characterized. In particular, drug intervention can be seen as control of signaling in cellular networks. Identification…

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Drug combination therapy has become a increasingly promising method in the treatment of cancer. However, the number of possible drug combinations is so huge that it is hard to screen synergistic drug combinations through wet-lab…

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