Drug–target interaction prediction using unifying of graph regularized nuclear norm with bilinear factorization

Abstract Background Wet-lab experiments for identification of interactions between drugs and target proteins are time-consuming, costly and labor-intensive. The use of computational prediction of drug–target interactions (DTIs), which is one of the significant points in drug discovery, has been considered by many researchers in recent years. It also reduces the search space of interactions by proposing potential interaction candidates. Results In this paper, a new approach based on unifying matrix factorization and nuclear norm minimization is proposed to find a low-rank interaction. In this combined method, to solve the low-rank matrix approximation, the terms in the DTI problem are used in such a way that the nuclear norm regularized problem is optimized by a bilinear factorization based on Rank-Restricted Soft Singular Value Decomposition (RRSSVD). In the proposed method, adjacencies between drugs and targets are encoded by graphs. Drug–target interaction, drug-drug similarity, target-target, and combination of similarities have also been used as input. Conclusions The proposed method is evaluated on four benchmark datasets known as Enzymes (E), Ion channels (ICs), G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and nuclear receptors (NRs) based on AUC, AUPR, and time measure. The results show an improvement in the performance of the proposed method compared to the state-of-the-art techniques.