Chemogenomic approaches to infer drug-target interaction networks

Abstract

The identification of drug-target interactions from heterogeneous biological data is critical in the drug development. In this chapter, we review recently developed in silico chemogenomic approaches to infer unknown drug-target interactions from chemical information of drugs and genomic information of target proteins. We review several kernel-based statistical methods from two different viewpoints: binary classification and dimension reduction. In the results, we demonstrate the usefulness of the methods on the prediction of drug-target interactions from chemical structure data and genomic sequence data. We also discuss the characteristics of each method, and show some perspectives toward future research direction.