TargetNet: a web service for predicting potential drug–target interaction profiling via multi-target SAR models

Zhi Jiang Yao, Jie Dong, Yu Jing Che, Min Feng Zhu, Ming Wen, Ning Ning Wang, Shan Wang, Aiping LYU, Dong Sheng Cao*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Drug–target interactions (DTIs) are central to current drug discovery processes and public health fields. Analyzing the DTI profiling of the drugs helps to infer drug indications, adverse drug reactions, drug–drug interactions, and drug mode of actions. Therefore, it is of high importance to reliably and fast predict DTI profiling of the drugs on a genome-scale level. Here, we develop the TargetNet server, which can make real-time DTI predictions based only on molecular structures, following the spirit of multi-target SAR methodology. Naïve Bayes models together with various molecular fingerprints were employed to construct prediction models. Ensemble learning from these fingerprints was also provided to improve the prediction ability. When the user submits a molecule, the server will predict the activity of the user’s molecule across 623 human proteins by the established high quality SAR model, thus generating a DTI profiling that can be used as a feature vector of chemicals for wide applications. The 623 SAR models related to 623 human proteins were strictly evaluated and validated by several model validation strategies, resulting in the AUC scores of 75–100 %. We applied the generated DTI profiling to successfully predict potential targets, toxicity classification, drug–drug interactions, and drug mode of action, which sufficiently demonstrated the wide application value of the potential DTI profiling. The TargetNet webserver is designed based on the Django framework in Python, and is freely accessible at http://targetnet.scbdd.com.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)413-424
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
Volume30
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2016

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Drug Discovery
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

User-Defined Keywords

  • Drug–target interaction
  • Multi-target SAR
  • Naïve Bayes
  • SAR models
  • Web server

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