Peon, Antonio and Dang, Cao Cuong and Ballester, Pedro (2016) How Reliable Are Ligand-Centric Methods for Target Fishing? Frontiers in Chemistry, 4 . p. 15. ISSN 1663-4365
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Abstract
Computational methods for Target Fishing (TF), also known as Target Prediction or Polypharmacology Prediction, can be used to discover new targets for small-molecule drugs. This may result in repositioning the drug in a new indication or improving our current understanding of its efficacy and side effects. While there is a substantial body of research on TF methods, there is still a need to improve their validation, which is often limited to a small part of the available targets and not easily interpretable by the user. Here we discuss how target-centric TF methods are inherently limited by the number of targets that can possibly predict (this number is by construction much larger in ligand-centric techniques). We also propose a new benchmark to validate TF methods, which is particularly suited to analyse how predictive performance varies with the query molecule. On average over approved drugs, we estimate that only five predicted targets will have to be tested to find two true targets with submicromolar potency (a strong variability in performance is however observed). In addition, we find that an approved drug has currently an average of eight known targets, which reinforces the notion that polypharmacology is a common and strong event. Furthermore, with the assistance of a control group of randomly-selected molecules, we show that the targets of approved drugs are generally harder to predict.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Information Technology (IT) ISI-indexed journals |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) |
| Depositing User: | Cao Cuong Dang |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2017 08:45 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2017 08:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uet.vnu.edu.vn/eprints/id/eprint/2577 |
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