This document discusses the discovery of novel drug-target interactions from dense subgraphs in bipartite graphs representing drug-target networks. It presents the empirical subgraph density (esDSG) problem, which aims to identify the maximally dense subgraph where novel interactions could be predicted. The authors evaluate their approach on a drug-target network dataset containing over 5,000 known interactions across four classes of targets. Their results demonstrate the esDSG problem can suggest interactions that other methods cannot. Future work will involve extending esDSG to identify dense subgraphs across different connected components.
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On the Discovery of Novel Drug-Target Interactions from Dense SubGraphs
1. On the Discovery of Novel
Drug-Target Interactions
from Dense SubGraphs
Alejandro Flores
Maria-Esther Vidal
Guillermo Palma
Universidad Sim坦n Bol鱈var
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3. Motivation
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Network of Drug-Target Interactions.
Drug (Green); Target (Yellow).
Densest Subgraphs
from where novel drug-
target interactions can
be suggested.
6. The esDSG Problem
Given a bipartite graph G=(D U T, E)
The esDSG problem identifies the subgraph
G* G such that the edge-similarity density
of G* is maximized.
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14. Conclusions and Future Plans
The esDSG problem allows for the
prediction of novel interactions that
cannot be suggested by state-of-the-art
approaches.
Extend esDSG to traverse different
connected components to identify
esDSGs from each component.
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