Knowledge-augmented Graph Machine Learning for Drug Discovery: From Precision to Interpretability

Zhiqiang Zhong, Davide Mottin

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Abstract

Conventional Artificial Intelligence models are heavily limited in handling complex biomedical structures (such as 2D or 3D protein and molecule structures) and providing interpretations for outputs, which hinders their practical application. Graph Machine Learning (GML) has gained considerable attention for its exceptional ability to model graph-structured biomedical data and investigate their properties and functional relationships. Despite extensive efforts, GML methods still suffer from several deficiencies, such as the limited ability to handle supervision sparsity and provide interpretability in learning and inference processes and their ineffectiveness in utilising relevant domain knowledge. In response, recent studies have proposed integrating external biomedical knowledge into the GML pipeline to realise more precise and interpretable drug discovery with limited training instances. This tutorial presents a comprehensive overview of long-standing drug discovery principles, provides the foundational concepts and cutting-edge techniques for graph-structured data and knowledge databases, and formally summarises Knowledge-augmented Graph Machine Learning (KaGML) for drug discovery. We have recently completed a survey of KaGML works that organises the outstanding approaches into four categories following a novel-defined taxonomy. This tutorial will present the result of this scholarly work. To encourage audience participation and facilitate research in this promptly emerging field, we also share valuable practical resources for intelligent drug discovery and provide an in-depth discussion of the potential avenues for future advancements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKDD 2023 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Number of pages2
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Publication date4 Aug 2023
Pages5841-5842
ISBN (Electronic)9798400701030
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Aug 2023
Event29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2023 - Long Beach, United States
Duration: 6 Aug 202310 Aug 2023

Conference

Conference29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLong Beach
Period06/08/202310/08/2023
SeriesProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Keywords

  • artificial intelligence
  • deep learning
  • drug discovery.
  • graph machine learning
  • knowledge-augmented methods
  • machine learning

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