Abstract <p>Drug combination therapy has shown improved efficacy and decreased adverse effects, making it a practical approach for conditions like cancer. However, discovering all potential synergistic drug combinations requires extensive experimentation, which can be challenging. Recent research utilizing deep learning techniques has shown promise in reducing the number of experiments and overall workload by predicting synergistic drug combinations. Therefore, developing reliable and effective computational methods for predicting these combinations is essential. This paper proposed a novel method called Drug-molecule Connect Cell (DconnC) for predicting synergistic drug combinations. DconnC leverages cellular features as nodes to establish connections between drug molecular structures, allowing the extraction of pertinent features. These features are then optimized through self-augmented contrastive learning using bidirectional recurrent neural networks (Bi-RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) models, ultimately predicting the drug synergy. By integrating information about the molecular structure of drugs for the extraction of cell features, DconnC uncovers the inherent connection between drug molecular structures and cellular characteristics, thus improving the accuracy of predictions. The performance of our method is evaluated using a five-fold cross validation approach, demonstrating a 35<InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <InlineMediaObject> <ImageObject Color="BlackWhite" FileRef="12539_2025_695_Article_IEq1.gif" Format="GIF" Height="16" Rendition="HTML" Resolution="72" Type="Linedraw" Width="15" /> </InlineMediaObject> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(\%\)</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mo>%</mo> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation> reduction in the mean square error (MSE) compared to the next-best method. Moreover, our method significantly outperformed alternative approaches in various evaluation criteria, particularly in predicting different cell lines and Loewe synergy score intervals.</p> Graphical Abstract <p></p>

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Predicting Synergistic Drug Combinations Based on Fusion of Cell and Drug Molecular Structures

  • Shiyu Yan,
  • Gang Yu,
  • Jiaoxing Yang,
  • Lingna Chen

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Abstract

Drug combination therapy has shown improved efficacy and decreased adverse effects, making it a practical approach for conditions like cancer. However, discovering all potential synergistic drug combinations requires extensive experimentation, which can be challenging. Recent research utilizing deep learning techniques has shown promise in reducing the number of experiments and overall workload by predicting synergistic drug combinations. Therefore, developing reliable and effective computational methods for predicting these combinations is essential. This paper proposed a novel method called Drug-molecule Connect Cell (DconnC) for predicting synergistic drug combinations. DconnC leverages cellular features as nodes to establish connections between drug molecular structures, allowing the extraction of pertinent features. These features are then optimized through self-augmented contrastive learning using bidirectional recurrent neural networks (Bi-RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) models, ultimately predicting the drug synergy. By integrating information about the molecular structure of drugs for the extraction of cell features, DconnC uncovers the inherent connection between drug molecular structures and cellular characteristics, thus improving the accuracy of predictions. The performance of our method is evaluated using a five-fold cross validation approach, demonstrating a 35 \(\%\) % reduction in the mean square error (MSE) compared to the next-best method. Moreover, our method significantly outperformed alternative approaches in various evaluation criteria, particularly in predicting different cell lines and Loewe synergy score intervals.

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