Study Sessions on Bioinformatics and Related Topics - Prof. Yoshihiro Yamanishi

[Alexis Vandenbon]

Dear All,

We are planning to have the third presentation in our series on bioinformatics as follows:

Speaker: Prof. Yoshihiro Yamanishi (Kyushu University)
Preliminary title: "Systematic drug repositioning for a wide range of diseases with machine learning methods"
Time: November 4th, from 10:00 AM
Place: Meeting Room 1 on the 2nd floor of the IFReC Building
Language: English
See also: http://sysimg.ifrec.osaka-u.ac.jp/bioinfo/

Abstract:
Drug repositioning, the application of known drugs to new indications, is a challenging issue in recent pharmaceutical science. In this study, we developed new machine learning methods to predict unknown drug targets and drug indications for systematic drug repositioning based on various large-scale data of genes, proteins, drugs and diseases in a framework of supervised network inference. Our results show that the proposed methods are useful in terms of accuracy and applicability. We performed a comprehensive prediction of new indications of all approved drugs for a wide range of diseases defined in the International Classification of Diseases.

We will let you know the final title of the presentation and a summary later.

Best,

Alex