arXiv:2512.22251cs.LGcs.AI2025-12被引 1

用生物医学知识图谱建模药物对基因表达的细微影响,揭示用药机制。

Interpretable Perturbation Modeling Through Biomedical Knowledge Graphs

  • 融合多模态嵌入与知识图谱,构建药物-细胞-基因异质图
  • 预测978个标志性基因在药物作用下的表达变化量,优于传统模型
  • 首次实现基于图神经网络的精细化转录组效应建模,适合药物机理研究

理解小分子如何扰动基因表达,对揭示药物作用机制、预测副作用及发现新用途至关重要。现有深度学习框架虽将多模态嵌入融入生物医学知识图谱(BKG),并利用图神经网络增强表示,但主要应用于链接预测和药物-疾病二元关联任务,未能充分捕捉基因扰动的精细转录组效应。为此,我们构建了一个融合(i)PrimeKG++——包含语义丰富节点嵌入的增强版知识图谱,以及(ii)LINCS L1000的药物与细胞系节点——其初始嵌入来自MolFormerXL和BioBERT等基础模型的多模态表示。在此异质图上,训练一个图注意力网络(GAT),搭配下游预测头,以学习给定药物-细胞组合下超过978个标志性基因的表达变化量(delta expression profile)。结果表明,在骨架拆分和随机拆分下,该框架在差异表达基因(DEG)预测任务上优于多层感知机基线。通过边打乱与节点特征随机化消融实验,进一步验证了生物医学知识图谱中的边显著提升了扰动级预测性能。本框架为机制性药物建模提供了新路径:从二元药物-疾病关联转向治疗干预引起的细粒度转录组效应分析。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Understanding how small molecules perturb gene expression is essential for uncovering drug mechanisms, predicting off-target effects, and identifying repurposing opportunities. While prior deep learning frameworks have integrated multimodal embeddings into biomedical knowledge graphs (BKGs) and further improved these representations through graph neural network message-passing paradigms, these models have been applied to tasks such as link prediction and binary drug-disease association, rather than the task of gene perturbation, which may unveil more about mechanistic transcriptomic effects. To address this gap, we construct a merged biomedical graph that integrates (i) PrimeKG++, an augmentation of PrimeKG containing semantically rich embeddings for nodes with (ii) LINCS L1000 drug and cell line nodes, initialized with multimodal embeddings from foundation models such as MolFormerXL and BioBERT. Using this heterogeneous graph, we train a graph attention network (GAT) with a downstream prediction head that learns the delta expression profile of over 978 landmark genes for a given drug-cell pair. Our results show that our framework outperforms MLP baselines for differentially expressed genes (DEG) -- which predict the delta expression given a concatenated embedding of drug features, target features, and baseline cell expression -- under the scaffold and random splits. Ablation experiments with edge shuffling and node feature randomization further demonstrate that the edges provided by biomedical KGs enhance perturbation-level prediction. More broadly, our framework provides a path toward mechanistic drug modeling: moving beyond binary drug-disease association tasks to granular transcriptional effects of therapeutic intervention.

知识图谱药物机制基因表达图神经网络

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