Ribeiro, Caio, Farmer, Christopher K., de Magalhães, João Pedro, Freitas, Alex A. (2023) Predicting lifespan-extending chemical compounds for C. elegans with machine learning and biologically interpretable features. Aging, 15 (13). pp. 6073-6099. E-ISSN 1945-4589. (doi:10.18632/aging.204866) (KAR id:102283)
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Abstract
Recently, there has been a growing interest in the development of pharmacological interventions targeting ageing, as well as in the use of machine learning for analysing ageing-related data. In this work, we use machine learning methods to analyse data from DrugAge, a database of chemical compounds (including drugs) modulating lifespan in model organisms. To this end, we created four types of datasets for predicting whether or not a compound extends the lifespan of C. elegans (the most frequent model organism in DrugAge), using four different types of predictive biological features, based on: compound-protein interactions, interactions between compounds and proteins encoded by ageing-related genes, and two types of terms annotated for proteins targeted by the compounds, namely Gene Ontology (GO) terms and physiology terms from the WormBase’s Phenotype Ontology. To analyse these datasets, we used a combination of feature selection methods in a data pre-processing phase and the well-established random forest algorithm for learning predictive models from the selected features. In addition, we interpreted the most important features in the two best models in light of the biology of ageing. One noteworthy feature was the GO term “Glutathione metabolic process”, which plays an important role in cellular redox homeostasis and detoxification. We also predicted the most promising novel compounds for extending lifespan from a list of previously unlabelled compounds. These include nitroprusside, which is used as an antihypertensive medication. Overall, our work opens avenues for future work in employing machine learning to predict novel life-extending compounds.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.18632/aging.204866 |
Additional information: | For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. |
Uncontrolled keywords: | cell biology; aging |
Subjects: | Q Science |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing |
Funders: | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (https://ror.org/00cwqg982) |
SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
Date Deposited: | 03 Aug 2023 13:50 UTC |
Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2024 12:54 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/102283 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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