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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

A Knowledge-Guided Graph Learning Approach Bridging Phenotype- and Target-Based Drug Discovery.

Qing Ye, Yundian Zeng, Linlong Jiang, Yu Kang, Peichen Pan, Jiming Chen, Yafeng Deng, Haitao Zhao, Shibo He, Tingjun Hou and 1 more

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Qing YeCollege of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, China.
Yundian ZengCollege of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, China.
Linlong JiangCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
Yu KangCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
Peichen PanCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
Jiming ChenCollege of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, China.
Yafeng DengCarbonSilicon AI Technology Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310018, China.
Haitao ZhaoCenter for Intelligent and Biomimetic Systems, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 440305, China.
Shibo HeCollege of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, China.
Tingjun HouCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7227-2580
Chang-Yu HsiehCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.

Funding

National Key R&D Program of China 2024YFA1307500National Natural Science Foundation of China 22373085National Natural Science Foundation of China 62088101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Discovering therapeutic molecules requires the integration of both phenotype-based drug discovery (PDD) and target-based drug discovery (TDD). However, this integration remains challenging due to the inherent heterogeneity, noise, and bias present in biomedical data. In this study, Knowledge-Guided Drug Relational Predictor (KGDRP), a graph representation learning approach is developed that effectively integrates multimodal biomedical data, including network data containing biological system information, gene expression data, and sequence data that incorporates chemical molecular structures, all within a heterogeneous graph (HG) structure. By incorporating biomedical HG (BioHG) into a heterogeneous graph neural network (HGNN)-based architecture, KGDRP exhibits a remarkable 12% improvement compared to previous methods in real-world screening scenarios. Notably, the biology-informed representation, derived from KGDRP, significantly enhance target prioritization by 26% in drug target discovery. Furthermore, zero-shot evaluation on COVID-19 exhibited a notably higher success rate in identifying diverse potential drugs. The utilization of BioHG facilitates a unique KGDRP-based analysis of cell-target-drug interactions, thereby enabling the elucidation of drug mechanisms. Overall, KGDRP provides a robust infrastructure for the seamlessly integration of multimodal data and biomedical networks, effectively accelerating PDD, guiding therapeutic target discovery, and ultimately expediting therapeutic molecule discovery.

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug DiscoveryMachine LearningCOVID-19HumansNeural Networks, ComputerPhenotypeSARS-CoV-2biological networksdrug target discoverygraph representation learningphenotypic screeningtranscriptomics

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PMID40047372
PMCPMC12021103

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