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Toward Preparing a Knowledge Base to Explore Potential Drugs and Biomedical Entities Related to COVID-19: Automated Computational Approach
BACKGROUND: Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is taking a huge toll on public health. Along with the non-therapeutic preventive measurements, scientific efforts are currently focused, mainly, on the development of vaccines and pharmacological treatment with existing drugs. Summarizing eviden...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674141/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33055059 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/21648 |
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author | Khan, Junaed Younus Khondaker, Md Tawkat Islam Hoque, Iram Tazim Al-Absi, Hamada R H Rahman, Mohammad Saifur Guler, Reto Alam, Tanvir Rahman, M Sohel |
author_facet | Khan, Junaed Younus Khondaker, Md Tawkat Islam Hoque, Iram Tazim Al-Absi, Hamada R H Rahman, Mohammad Saifur Guler, Reto Alam, Tanvir Rahman, M Sohel |
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description | BACKGROUND: Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is taking a huge toll on public health. Along with the non-therapeutic preventive measurements, scientific efforts are currently focused, mainly, on the development of vaccines and pharmacological treatment with existing drugs. Summarizing evidences from scientific literatures on the discovery of treatment plan of COVID-19 under a platform would help the scientific community to explore the opportunities in a systematic fashion. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore the potential drugs and biomedical entities related to coronavirus related diseases, including COVID-19, that are mentioned on scientific literature through an automated computational approach. METHODS: We mined the information from publicly available scientific literature and related public resources. Six topic-specific dictionaries, including human genes, human miRNAs, diseases, Protein Databank, drugs, and drug side effects, were integrated to mine all scientific evidence related to COVID-19. We employed an automated literature mining and labeling system through a novel approach to measure the effectiveness of drugs against diseases based on natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and deep learning. We also applied the concept of cosine similarity to confidently infer the associations between diseases and genes. RESULTS: Based on the literature mining, we identified 1805 diseases, 2454 drugs, 1910 genes that are related to coronavirus related diseases including COVID-19. Integrating the extracted information, we developed the first knowledgebase platform dedicated to COVID-19, which highlights potential list of drugs and related biomedical entities. For COVID-19, we highlighted multiple case studies on existing drugs along with a confidence score for their applicability in the treatment plan. Based on our computational method, we found Remdesivir, Statins, Dexamethasone, and Ivermectin could be considered as potential effective drugs to improve clinical status and lower mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. We also found that Hydroxychloroquine could not be considered as an effective drug for COVID-19. The resulting knowledgebase is made available as an open source tool, named COVID-19Base. CONCLUSIONS: Proper investigation of the mined biomedical entities along with the identified interactions among those would help the research community to discover possible ways for the therapeutic treatment of COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-76741412020-11-20 Toward Preparing a Knowledge Base to Explore Potential Drugs and Biomedical Entities Related to COVID-19: Automated Computational Approach Khan, Junaed Younus Khondaker, Md Tawkat Islam Hoque, Iram Tazim Al-Absi, Hamada R H Rahman, Mohammad Saifur Guler, Reto Alam, Tanvir Rahman, M Sohel JMIR Med Inform Original Paper BACKGROUND: Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is taking a huge toll on public health. Along with the non-therapeutic preventive measurements, scientific efforts are currently focused, mainly, on the development of vaccines and pharmacological treatment with existing drugs. Summarizing evidences from scientific literatures on the discovery of treatment plan of COVID-19 under a platform would help the scientific community to explore the opportunities in a systematic fashion. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore the potential drugs and biomedical entities related to coronavirus related diseases, including COVID-19, that are mentioned on scientific literature through an automated computational approach. METHODS: We mined the information from publicly available scientific literature and related public resources. Six topic-specific dictionaries, including human genes, human miRNAs, diseases, Protein Databank, drugs, and drug side effects, were integrated to mine all scientific evidence related to COVID-19. We employed an automated literature mining and labeling system through a novel approach to measure the effectiveness of drugs against diseases based on natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and deep learning. We also applied the concept of cosine similarity to confidently infer the associations between diseases and genes. RESULTS: Based on the literature mining, we identified 1805 diseases, 2454 drugs, 1910 genes that are related to coronavirus related diseases including COVID-19. Integrating the extracted information, we developed the first knowledgebase platform dedicated to COVID-19, which highlights potential list of drugs and related biomedical entities. For COVID-19, we highlighted multiple case studies on existing drugs along with a confidence score for their applicability in the treatment plan. Based on our computational method, we found Remdesivir, Statins, Dexamethasone, and Ivermectin could be considered as potential effective drugs to improve clinical status and lower mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. We also found that Hydroxychloroquine could not be considered as an effective drug for COVID-19. The resulting knowledgebase is made available as an open source tool, named COVID-19Base. CONCLUSIONS: Proper investigation of the mined biomedical entities along with the identified interactions among those would help the research community to discover possible ways for the therapeutic treatment of COVID-19. JMIR Publications 2020-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7674141/ /pubmed/33055059 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/21648 Text en ©Junaed Younus Khan, Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Iram Tazim Hoque, Hamada R H Al-Absi, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Reto Guler, Tanvir Alam, M Sohel Rahman. Originally published in JMIR Medical Informatics (http://medinform.jmir.org), 10.11.2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Informatics, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://medinform.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Khan, Junaed Younus Khondaker, Md Tawkat Islam Hoque, Iram Tazim Al-Absi, Hamada R H Rahman, Mohammad Saifur Guler, Reto Alam, Tanvir Rahman, M Sohel Toward Preparing a Knowledge Base to Explore Potential Drugs and Biomedical Entities Related to COVID-19: Automated Computational Approach |
title | Toward Preparing a Knowledge Base to Explore Potential Drugs and Biomedical Entities Related to COVID-19: Automated Computational Approach |
title_full | Toward Preparing a Knowledge Base to Explore Potential Drugs and Biomedical Entities Related to COVID-19: Automated Computational Approach |
title_fullStr | Toward Preparing a Knowledge Base to Explore Potential Drugs and Biomedical Entities Related to COVID-19: Automated Computational Approach |
title_full_unstemmed | Toward Preparing a Knowledge Base to Explore Potential Drugs and Biomedical Entities Related to COVID-19: Automated Computational Approach |
title_short | Toward Preparing a Knowledge Base to Explore Potential Drugs and Biomedical Entities Related to COVID-19: Automated Computational Approach |
title_sort | toward preparing a knowledge base to explore potential drugs and biomedical entities related to covid-19: automated computational approach |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674141/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33055059 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/21648 |
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