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ArticleNature communications2025

Predicting rare drug-drug interaction events with dual-granular structure-adaptive and pair variational representation.

Zhonghao Ren, Xiangxiang Zeng, Yizhen Lao, Zhuhong You, Yifan Shang, Quan Zou, Chen Lin

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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7 authors.

Zhonghao RenCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1614-8988
Xiangxiang ZengCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1081-7658
Yizhen LaoCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6284-1724
Zhuhong YouChina School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China.
Yifan ShangCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Quan ZouInstitute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China. zouquan@nclab.net.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6406-1142
Chen LinSchool of Informatics, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361000, China. chenlin@xmu.edu.cn.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) No. 62425107, No. 62450002National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) No. 62425204, No. U22A2037National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) No. 62432011Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation) No. LD24F020004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adverse drug-drug interaction events (DDIEs) pose serious risks to patient safety, yet rare but severe interactions remain challenging to identify due to limited clinical data. Existing computational methods rely heavily on abundant samples, failing to identify rare DDIEs. Here we introduce RareDDIE, a metric-based meta-learning model that employs a dual-granular structure-driven pair variational representation to enhance rare DDIE prediction. To further address the challenge of zero-shot DDIE identification, we develop the Biological Semantic Transferring (BST) module, integrating large-scale sentence embeddings to form the ZetaDDIE variant. Our model outperforms existing methods in few-sample and zero-sample settings. Furthermore, we verify that knowledge transfer from DDIE can improve drug synergy predictions, surpassing existing models. Case studies on antiplatelet activity reduction and non-small cell lung cancer drug synergy further illustrate the practical value of RareDDIE. By analyzing the meta-knowledge construction process, we provide interpretability into the model's decision-making. This work establishes an effective computational framework for rare DDIE prediction, leveraging meta-learning and knowledge transfer to overcome key challenges in data-limited scenarios.

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Computational BiologyDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungDrug InteractionsHumans

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