Benchmarking a Wide Range of Chemical Descriptors for Drug‐Target Interaction Prediction Using a Chemogenomic Approach

R Sawada, M Kotera, Y Yamanishi - Molecular informatics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The identification of drug‐target interactions, or interactions between drug candidate
compounds and target candidate proteins, is a crucial process in genomic drug discovery. In …

Metabolic pathway reconstruction strategies for central metabolism and natural product biosynthesis

M Kotera, S Goto - Biophysics and physicobiology, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Metabolic pathway reconstruction presents a challenge for understanding metabolic
pathways in organisms of interest. Different strategies, ie, reference-based vs. de novo, must …

Elucidating the modes of action for bioactive compounds in a cell-specific manner by large-scale chemically-induced transcriptomics

M Iwata, R Sawada, H Iwata, M Kotera, Y Yamanishi - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The identification of the modes of action of bioactive compounds is a major challenge in
chemical systems biology of diseases. Genome-wide expression profiling of transcriptional …

Property graph vs RDF triple store: A comparison on glycan substructure search

D Alocci, J Mariethoz, O Horlacher, JT Bolleman… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Resource description framework (RDF) and Property Graph databases are emerging
technologies that are used for storing graph-structured data. We compare these …

Target-based drug repositioning using large-scale chemical–protein interactome data

R Sawada, H Iwata, S Mizutani… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Drug repositioning, or the identification of new indications for known drugs, is a useful
strategy for drug discovery. In this study, we developed novel computational methods to …

Dealing with the ambiguity of glycan substructure search

V Daponte, C Hayes, J Mariethoz, F Lisacek - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The level of ambiguity in describing glycan structure has significantly increased with the
upsurge of large-scale glycomics and glycoproteomics experiments. Consequently, an …

[HTML][HTML] Enzyme annotation for orphan reactions and its applications in biomanufacturing

Z Zhang, C Li - Green Chemical Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
There are lots of biochemical reactions in the biosynthetic pathway without associated
enzymes. Reactions predicted by retro-biosynthetic tools are not assigned gene sequences …

Learning graph representations of biochemical networks and its application to enzymatic link prediction

J Jiang, LP Liu, S Hassoun - Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The complete characterization of enzymatic activities between molecules remains
incomplete, hindering biological engineering and limiting biological discovery. We develop …

Dissecting the polygenic basis of primary hypertension: identification of key pathway-specific components

C Maj, E Salvi, L Citterio, O Borisov… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction and Objectives Genome-wide association studies have identified a high number
of genetic loci associated with hypertension suggesting the presence of an underlying …

Revealing Comprehensive Food Functionalities and Mechanisms of Action through Machine Learning

N Inoue, T Shibata, Y Tanaka, H Taguchi… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Foods possess a range of unexplored functionalities; however, fully identifying these
functions through empirical means presents significant challenges. In this study, we have …