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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 816-833Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1sc05180f
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [62176272]
- Guangzhou Science and Technology Fund [201803010072]
- Science, Technology & Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality [JCYL 20170818165305521]
- China Medical University Hospital [DMR-111-102, DMR-111-143, DMR-111-123]
- SYSU's Hundred Talent Program
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In this study, a deep multiscale graph neural network called MGraphDTA was proposed for predicting drug-target affinity (DTA). The method combines dense connection and super-deep GNN to capture the local and global structure of compounds simultaneously. A novel visual explanation method, Grad-AAM, was also developed to analyze the model from a chemical perspective.
Predicting drug-target affinity (DTA) is beneficial for accelerating drug discovery. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in DTA prediction. However, existing shallow GNNs are insufficient to capture the global structure of compounds. Besides, the interpretability of the graph-based DTA models highly relies on the graph attention mechanism, which can not reveal the global relationship between each atom of a molecule. In this study, we proposed a deep multiscale graph neural network based on chemical intuition for DTA prediction (MGraphDTA). We introduced a dense connection into the GNN and built a super-deep GNN with 27 graph convolutional layers to capture the local and global structure of the compound simultaneously. We also developed a novel visual explanation method, gradient-weighted affinity activation mapping (Grad-AAM), to analyze a deep learning model from the chemical perspective. We evaluated our approach using seven benchmark datasets and compared the proposed method to the state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) models. MGraphDTA outperforms other DL-based approaches significantly on various datasets. Moreover, we show that Grad-AAM creates explanations that are consistent with pharmacologists, which may help us gain chemical insights directly from data beyond human perception. These advantages demonstrate that the proposed method improves the generalization and interpretation capability of DTA prediction modeling.
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