Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Network-based prediction of drug combinations

  • Feixiong Cheng,
  • István A. Kovács,
  • Albert-László Barabási

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09186-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Combination therapy holds great promise, but discovery remains challenging. Here, the authors propose a method to identify efficacious drug combinations for specific diseases, and find that successful combinations tend to target separate neighbourhoods of the disease module in the human interactome.