journal contribution
posted on 2023-03-31, 00:28 authored by Nehme El-Hachem, Deena M.A. Gendoo, Laleh Soltan Ghoraie, Zhaleh Safikhani, Petr Smirnov, Christina Chung, Kenan Deng, Ailsa Fang, Erin Birkwood, Chantal Ho, Ruth Isserlin, Gary D. Bader, Anna Goldenberg, Benjamin Haibe-Kains This file contains the legends for Supplementary Tables 1 to 5.
Funding
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Cancer Research Society
Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure and the Ministry of Innovation of the Government of Ontario
Canadian Cancer Research Institute
Gattuso-Slaight Personalized Cancer Medicine Fund at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
History
ARTICLE ABSTRACT
Identification of drug targets and mechanism of action (MoA) for new and uncharacterized anticancer drugs is important for optimization of treatment efficacy. Current MoA prediction largely relies on prior information including side effects, therapeutic indication, and chemoinformatics. Such information is not transferable or applicable for newly identified, previously uncharacterized small molecules. Therefore, a shift in the paradigm of MoA predictions is necessary toward development of unbiased approaches that can elucidate drug relationships and efficiently classify new compounds with basic input data. We propose here a new integrative computational pharmacogenomic approach, referred to as Drug Network Fusion (DNF), to infer scalable drug taxonomies that rely only on basic drug characteristics toward elucidating drug–drug relationships. DNF is the first framework to integrate drug structural information, high-throughput drug perturbation, and drug sensitivity profiles, enabling drug classification of new experimental compounds with minimal prior information. DNF taxonomy succeeded in identifying pertinent and novel drug–drug relationships, making it suitable for investigating experimental drugs with potential new targets or MoA. The scalability of DNF facilitated identification of key drug relationships across different drug categories, providing a flexible tool for potential clinical applications in precision medicine. Our results support DNF as a valuable resource to the cancer research community by providing new hypotheses on compound MoA and potential insights for drug repurposing. Cancer Res; 77(11); 3057–69. ©2017 AACR.
