BP-DDI: Drug-drug interaction prediction based on biological information and pharmacological text

Abstract

In the treatment of many diseases, combination drug therapy has been widely used and achieved good clinical efficacy. However, drug-drug interaction (DDI) may occur between multiple drugs and pose a huge threat to the health of patients. Therefore, predicting the presence or absence of DDI among multiple drugs is an important part of pharmacovigilance. Currently, various computational methods for DDI prediction usually use biological information such as molecular structures, targets and enzymes of drugs, or construct heterogeneous networks about drugs, diseases, and genes, so as to obtain abundant information related to drugs. In addition to biological data, pharmacology texts also contain a wealth of information about drug properties, but these texts have not yet been applied to DDI predictions. In this study, we first collect six types of pharmacology texts from DrugBank that can reflect properties of drugs, and propose a novel method named BP-DDI which can combine biological information and pharmacological text to realize DDI event prediction. BP-DDI first extracts biological features (chemical substructure features and target features) from biological data, and then extracts specific types of text features from the collected pharmacology text data. Finally, the biological features are fused with different types of pharmacological text features in order to predict DDI events. Our experiments demonstrate that BP-DDI outperforms existing methods on all three types of prediction tasks. BP-DDI achieves 0.9052 on ACC, and achieves 0.9612 on AUPR.