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ArticleAMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science2026

A Knowledge Graph Approach To Discovering Drug Combination Therapies Across The Phenome.

Jianfeng Ke, Tingjian Ge, Rachel D Melamed

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Article in AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jianfeng KeDepartment of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA.
Tingjian GeDepartment of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA.
Rachel D MelamedDepartment of Biology, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combining two clinically approved drugs has potential to improve treatment for common disease. But, with many thousands of combinations possible, clinically testing all pairs of drugs, with all common diseases, is not feasible. Here, we propose DRACO, a new machine learning method for discovering therapeutic drug combinations. Our model leverages a foundation model describing drug biology alongside a graph derived from clinical trials. We showcase DRACO's power to answer the question: given a drug and a health condition, what second drug would create an effective combination? In that task, 80% of our predictions have been previously reported. In the harder task of distinguishing the small number of reported combinations from millions of possible candidates, DRACO ranks 99.0% of held-out drug combinations at the highest 0.1%. We expect DRACO to be a useful tool for proposing new therapies across thousands of disease phenotypes and drug candidates.

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PMID42317818
PMCPMC13274323

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