Heterogeneous Network With Multiview Path Aggregation: Drug–Target Interaction Prediction Study Design
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Abstract
Background: Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is crucial in drug repositioning, as it can significantly reduce research and development costs and shorten the development cycle. Most existing deep learning-based approaches employ graph neural networks for DTI prediction. However, these approaches still face limitations in capturing complex biochemical features, integrating multilevel information, and providing interpretable model insights. Objective: This study proposes a heterogeneous network model based on multiview path aggregation, aiming to predict interactions between drugs and targets. Methods: This study employed a molecular attention transformer to extract 3D conformation features from the chemical structures of drugs and utilized Prot-T5, a protein-specific large language model, to deeply explore biophysically and functionally relevant features from protein sequences. By integrating drugs, proteins, diseases, and side effects from multisource heterogeneous data, we constructed a heterogeneous graph model to systematically characterize multidimensional associations between biological entities. On this foundation, a meta-path aggregation mechanism was proposed, which dynamically integrates information from both feature views and biological network relationship views. This mechanism effectively learned potential interaction patterns between biological entities and provided a more comprehensive representation of the complex relationships in the heterogeneous graph. It enhanced the model's ability to capture sophisticated, context-dependent relationships in biological networks. Furthermore, we integrated multiscale features of drugs and proteins within the heterogeneous network, significantly improving the prediction accuracy of DTIs and enhancing the model's interpretability and generalization ability. Results: In the DTI prediction task, the proposed model achieves an AUPR (area under the precision-recall curve) of 0.901 and an AUROC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve) of 0.966, representing improvements of 1.7% and 0.8%, respectively, over the baseline methods. Furthermore, a case study on the KCNH2 target demonstrates that the proposed model successfully predicts 38 out of 53 candidate drugs as having interactions, which further validates its reliability and practicality in real-world scenarios. Conclusions: The proposed model shows marked superiority over baseline methods, highlighting the importance of integrating heterogeneous information with biological knowledge in DTI prediction.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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