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Zare-Mirakabad, F.

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The assessment of similarity vectors of fingerprint and UMLS in adverse drug reaction prediction

Identifying and controlling adverse drug reactions is a complex problem in the pharmacological field. Despite the studies done in different laboratory stages, some adverse drug reactions are recognized after being released, such as Rosiglitazone. Due to such experiences, pharmacists are now more interested in using computational methods to predict adverse drug reactions. In computational methods, finding and representing appropriate drug and adverse reaction features are one of the most critical challenges. Here, we assess fingerprint and target as drug features; and phenotype and unified medical language system as adverse reaction features to predict adverse drug reaction. Meanwhile, we show that drug and adverse reaction features represented by similarity vectors can improve adverse drug prediction. In this regard, we propose four frameworks. Two frameworks are based on random forest classification and neural networks as machine learning methods called F_RF and F_NN, respectively. The rest of them improve two state-of-art matrix factorization models, CS and TMF, by considering target as a drug feature and phenotype as an adverse reaction feature. However, machine learning frameworks with fewer drug and adverse reaction features are more accurate than matrix factorization frameworks. In addition, the F_RF framework performs significantly better than F_NN with ACC = %89.15, AUC = %96.14 and AUPRC = %92.9. Next, we contrast F_RF with some well-known models designed based on similarity vectors of drug and adverse reaction features. Unlike other methods, we do not remove rare reactions from the data set in our frameworks. The data and implementation of proposed frameworks are available at http://bioinformatics.aut.ac.ir/ADRP-ML-NMF/.

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TranDTA: Prediction Of Drug Target Binding Affinity Using Transformer Representations

Drug discovery is generally difficult, expensive, and low success rate. One of the essential steps in the early stages of drug discovery and drug repurposing is identifying drug-target interactions. Binding affinity indicates the strength of drug-target pair interactions. In this regard, several computational methods have been developed to predict the drug-target binding affinity, and the input representation of these models has been shown to be very effective in improving accuracy. Although the recent models predict binding affinity more accurate than the first ones, they need the structure of target proteins. Despite the strong interest in protein structure, there is a massive gap between known sequences and experimentally determined structures. Therefore, finding an appropriate presentation for drug and protein sequences is vital for drug-target binding affinity prediction. In this paper, our primary goal is to assess the drug and protein sequence representation for improving drug-target binding affinity prediction.

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Protein sequence profile prediction using ProtAlbert transformer1

Protein profiles have many applications in bioinformatics. To construct the profile from a protein sequence, the sequence is aligned with database. However, sometimes there are no similar sequences with the query. This paper proposes a method based on pre-trained ProtAlbert transformer to predict the profile for a single protein sequence without alignment. The performance of transformers on natural languages is impressive. Protein sequences can be viewed as a language; therefore, we can benefit from using these models. We analyze the attention heads in different layers of ProtAlbert to show that the transformer can capture five essential protein characteristics of the family from a single protein sequence. These assessments are performed on the CASP13 dataset to find representative heads for each of five protein characteristics. Then, these heads are investigated on one thermophilic and two mesophilic proteins as case studies. The results show the significant attention heads for protein family properties extracted from a single protein sequence. This analysis led us to propose an algorithm called PA_SPP for profile prediction using only a single protein sequence as input. In our algorithm, we apply the masked language modeling method of ProtAlbert. The results display high similarity between the predicted profiles and HSSP profiles.

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An extension of Wang protein design model using Blosum62 substitution matrix

Humans life depends on the functionality of molecules in the body. One of these essential molecules is the protein that plays a vital role in our life, such that its malfunction can cause severe damages. Such roles make protein structure and its functionality necessary to understand. One of the problems that help us understand the relation between protein structure is the well-known protein design problem which attempts to find an amino acid sequence that can fold into a desired tertiary structure. However, despite having an acceptable accuracy in protein design, this accuracy is an identical percentage of amino acid retrieving. At the same time, it is well-known that amino acids can replace each other in evolution while the function and structure of protein stay the same. Thus the designed sequence does not have the opportunity to be close to the target in the evolutionary aspect. This paper presents an extension to Wangs deep learning model, which uses evolutionary information in the Blosum62 substitution matrix to take amino acid replacement probability into account while designing a sequence.

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