In plain words: Graph machine learning treats molecules and biological networks as connected nodes and links, letting it predict properties and new connections. This review surveys its use across target finding, molecule and biologic design, and drug repurposing, where some repurposed drugs have reached animal studies.
Abstract · Utilising Graph Machine Learning within Drug Discovery and Development
Graph Machine Learning (GML) is receiving growing interest within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries for its ability to model biomolecular structures, the functional relationships between them, and integrate multi-omic datasets - amongst other data types. Herein, we present a multidisciplinary academic-industrial review of the topic within the context of drug discovery and development. After introducing key terms and modelling approaches, we move chronologically through the drug development pipeline to identify and summarise work incorporating: target identification, design of small molecules and biologics, and drug repurposing. Whilst the field is still emerging, key milestones including repurposed drugs entering in vivo studies, suggest graph machine learning will become a modelling framework of choice within biomedical machine learning.
Thomas Gaudelet, Ben Day, Arian R. Jamasb, Jyothish Soman, Cristian Regep, Gertrude Liu, Jeremy B. R. Hayter, Richard Vickers, Charles Roberts, Jian Tang, David Roblin, Tom L. Blundell, et al.
arXiv:2012.05716 · q-bio.QM, cs.LG · submitted Dec 9, 2020 · updated Feb 10, 2021
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