A joint modeling approach for uncovering associations between gene expression, bioactivity and chemical structure in early drug discovery to guide lead selection and genomic biomarker development

QSTAR Consortium, Nolen Perualila-Tan, Adetayo Kasim, Willem Talloen, Bie Verbist, Hinrich W.H. Göhlmann, Ziv Shkedy

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Abstract

The modern drug discovery process involves multiple sources of high-dimensional data. This imposes the challenge of data integration. A typical example is the integration of chemical structure (fingerprint features), phenotypic bioactivity (bioassay read-outs) data for targets of interest, and transcriptomic (gene expression) data in early drug discovery to better understand the chemical and biological mechanisms of candidate drugs, and to facilitate early detection of safety issues prior to later and expensive phases of drug development cycles. In this paper, we discuss a joint model for the transcriptomic and the phenotypic variables conditioned on the chemical structure. This modeling approach can be used to uncover, for a given set of compounds, the association between gene expression and biological activity taking into account the influence of the chemical structure of the compound on both variables. The model allows to detect genes that are associated with the bioactivity data facilitating the identification of potential genomic biomarkers for compounds efficacy. In addition, the effect of every structural feature on both genes and pIC50 and their associations can be simultaneously investigated. Two oncology projects are used to illustrate the applicability and usefulness of the joint model to integrate multi-source high-dimensional information to aid drug discovery.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)291-304
Number of pages14
JournalStatistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology
Volume15
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • bioactivity
  • biomarkers
  • chemical structure
  • joint model
  • transcriptomic
  • Biomarkers/chemistry
  • Gene Expression
  • Genomics
  • Models, Genetic
  • Molecular Structure
  • Chemistry, Pharmaceutical/methods
  • Drug Discovery

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