Method to link medicines to diseases using multiplex networks

Gustavo Simões Carnivali and Carlos Cristiano Borges

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2025, vol. 28, issue 14, 2212-2225

Abstract: The reuse of well-established medicines using computational modeling has gained a lot of attention due to its tremendous benefits. Based on this perspective, a new method for linking known medicines to diseases is proposed. The creation of a new treatment or medicine can be financially and temporally costly and the reuse of medicines is one possibility to accelerate this process efficiently. The main purpose of the reuse of medicines is to reduce some stages of the development of new medicines, motivating the proposition of several methods nowadays. In this work, a new method is developed aiming to connect known medicines to diseases based on available networks of protein interactions and available lists of medicines that affect protein action. The concepts of multiplex networks are used to connect subgraphs of vertices that represent medicines and proteins. The core of the procedure is determined by a weighting strategy constructed to define precisely the more relevant connections. The method was compared to other network link methods in the literature and a case study was presented and evaluated by the proposed method.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2024.2362860

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