Meta-GDBP: a high-level stacked regression model to improve anticancer drug response prediction

Abstract Anticancer drug response prediction plays an important role in personalized medicine. In particular, precisely predicting drug response in specific cancer types and patients is still a challenge problem. Here we propose Meta-GDBP, a novel anticancer drug-response model, which involves two l...

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Published in:Briefings in bioinformatics 2020-05, Vol.21 (3), p.996-1005
Main Authors: Su, Ran, Liu, Xinyi, Xiao, Guobao, Wei, Leyi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological properties
Cancer
Chemical properties
Context
Encyclopedias
Optimization
Precision medicine
Predictions
Regression models
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Summary:Abstract Anticancer drug response prediction plays an important role in personalized medicine. In particular, precisely predicting drug response in specific cancer types and patients is still a challenge problem. Here we propose Meta-GDBP, a novel anticancer drug-response model, which involves two levels. At the first level of Meta-GDBP, we build four optimized base models (BMs) using genetic information, chemical properties and biological context with an ensemble optimization strategy, while at the second level, we construct a weighted model to integrate the four BMs. Notably, the weights of the models are learned upstream, thus the parameter cost is significantly reduced compared to previous methods. We evaluate the Meta-GDBP on Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) and the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) data sets. Benchmarking results demonstrate that compared to other methods, the Meta-GDBP achieves a much higher correlation between the predicted and the observed responses for almost all the drugs. Moreover, we apply the Meta-GDBP to predict the GDSC-missing drug response and use the CCLE-known data to validate the performance. The results show quite a similar tendency between these two response sets. Particularly, we here for the first time introduce a biological context-based frequency matrix (BCFM) to associate the biological context with the drug response. It is encouraging that the proposed BCFM is biologically meaningful and consistent with the reported biological mechanism, further demonstrating its efficacy for predicting drug response. The R implementation for the proposed Meta-GDBP is available at https://github.com/RanSuLab/Meta-GDBP.
ISSN:1467-5463
1477-4054
DOI:10.1093/bib/bbz022