Implicit-descriptor ligand-based virtual screening by means of collaborative filtering

Journal of Cheminformatics

Raghuram Srinivas¹  Pavel V. Klimovich¹  Eric C. Larson¹ 

[1] Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University;

关键词: Ligand-based virtual screening;    Collaborative filtering;    Drug discovery;    Computational pharmacology;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13321-018-0310-y

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Current ligand-based machine learning methods in virtual screening rely heavily on molecular fingerprinting for preprocessing, i.e., explicit description of ligands’ structural and physicochemical properties in a vectorized form. Of particular importance to current methods are the extent to which molecular fingerprints describe a particular ligand and what metric sufficiently captures similarity among ligands. In this work, we propose and evaluate methods that do not require explicit feature vectorization through fingerprinting, but, instead, provide implicit descriptors based only on other known assays. Our methods are based upon well known collaborative filtering algorithms used in recommendation systems. Our implicit descriptor method does not require any fingerprint similarity search, which makes the method free of the bias arising from the empirical nature of the fingerprint models. We show that implicit methods significantly outperform traditional machine learning methods, and the main strengths of implicit methods are their resilience to target-ligand sparsity and high potential for spotting promiscuous ligands.

【 授权许可】

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