Research Article

Systematic Analysis of the Associations between Adverse Drug Reactions and Pathways

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A framework for ADR-pathway network construction. Current knowledge was obtained through two data types: drug targets from DrugBank, PDSP , Matador, and Therapeutic Targets Database, and drug-induced ADRs from the SIDER database. The affected pathways for each drug were found by inputting targets of the drug into SubpathwayMiner. Then we applied enrichment analysis method to identify associations between ADRs and pathways based on drug-ADR relations and drug-pathway relations. Finally, we combined these ADR-pathway associations to construct an ADR-pathway network.