APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING EFFECTS OF DRUGS BASED ON NETWORKS

摘要

Disclosed is a network-based drug efficacy-assessing method, and an apparatus. The method comprises: computing a score for association between drugs and diseases by means of at least one of drug-adjacency-based inference, disease-adjacency-based inference, and module-distance-based inference; building a classifier for determining whether the drug is associated with the disease, using machine learning in which the score is employed as a feature; and determining the association between the drug and the disease by use of the classifier. The method and apparatus can search for drug-disease relation in which a drug can exert its pharmaceutical efficacy on a disease on the basis of a network constructed from protein interaction databases and protein-gene association databases, and can evaluate the molecular interaction of the drug to find out new pharmaceutical effects of the drug with higher precision and sensitivity, whereby a time and cost for the development of new drugs can be reduced.