Rengul Cetin-Atalay; Deniz Cansen Kahraman; Esra Nalbat; Ahmet Sureyya Rifaioglu; Ahmet Atakan; Ataberk Donmez; Heval Atas; M. Volkan Atalay; Aybar C. Acar; Tunca Doğan
J Gastrointestinal Cancer (2021)
Drug Design Published: (Dec/2021)
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Abstract:
Computational approaches have been used at different stages of drug development with the purpose of decreasing the time and cost of conventional experimental procedures. Lately, techniques mainly developed and applied in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), have been transferred to different application domains such as biomedicine. In this study, we conducted an investigative analysis via data-driven evaluation of potential hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) therapeutics in the context of AI-assisted drug discovery/repurposing. First, we discussed basic concepts, computational approaches, databases, modeling approaches, and featurization techniques in drug discovery/repurposing. In the analysis part, we automatically integrated HCC-related biological entities such as genes/proteins, pathways, phenotypes, drugs/compounds, and other diseases with similar implications, and represented these heterogeneous relationships via a knowledge graph using the CROssBAR system.
