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Also it greatly broadens the drug target search space, which makes the drug target discovery difficult. Computational methods are highly desired to efficiently provide candidates for further experiments and hold the promise to greatly accelerate the discovery of novel drug targets.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Here, we propose a machine learning method to predict PPI targets in a genomic-wide scale. Specifically, we develop a computational method, named as PrePPItar, to Predict PPIs as drug targets by uncovering the potential associations between drugs and PPIs. First, we survey the databases and manually construct a gold-standard positive dataset for drug and PPI interactions. This effort leads to a dataset with 227 associations among 63 PPIs and 113 FDA-approved drugs and allows us to build models to learn the association rules from the data. Second, we characterize drugs by profiling in chemical structure, drug ATC-code annotation, and side-effect space and represent PPI similarity by a symmetrical S-kernel based on protein amino acid sequence. Then the drugs and PPIs are correlated by Kronecker product kernel. Finally, a support vector machine (SVM), is trained to predict novel associations between drugs and PPIs. We validate our PrePPItar method on the well-established gold-standard dataset by cross-validation. We find that all chemical structure, drug ATC-code, and side-effect information are predictive for PPI target. Moreover, we can increase the PPI target prediction coverage by integrating multiple data sources. Follow-up database search and pathway analysis indicate that our new predictions are worthy of future experimental validation.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Conclusion: In conclusion, PrePPItar can serve as a useful tool for PPI target discovery and provides a general heterogeneous data integrative framework.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: PrePPItar is available at http:\/\/doc.aporc.org\/wiki\/PrePPItar.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0ycwang@nwipb.cas.cn or ywang@amss.ac.cn<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv528","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,29]],"date-time":"2015-09-29T01:59:04Z","timestamp":1443491944000},"page":"226-234","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Computational probing protein\u2013protein interactions targeting small molecules"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Yong-Cui","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810001, China,"}]},{"given":"Shi-Long","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810001, China,"}]},{"given":"Nai-Yang","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 College of Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China and"}]},{"given":"Yong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3 National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020110253564200_btv528-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"380","DOI":"10.1002\/pmic.200390053","article-title":"Protein\u2013protein interactions as a target for drugs in proteomics","volume":"3","author":"Archakov","year":"2003","journal-title":"Proteomics"},{"key":"2023020110253564200_btv528-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"989","DOI":"10.2174\/1568026611313090003","article-title":"Protein interface pharmacophore mapping tools for small molecule protein: protein interaction inhibitor discovery","volume":"13","author":"Arnout","year":"2013","journal-title":"Curr. 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