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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2013

Deep architectures and deep learning in chemoinformatics: the prediction of aqueous solubility for drug-like molecules.

Alessandro Lusci, Gianluca Pollastri, Pierre Baldi

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 166 papers.

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3 authors.

Alessandro LusciSchool of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. alessandro.lusci@ucdconnect.ie
Gianluca Pollastri
Pierre Baldi

Funding

Biomedical Informatics Training ProgramT15LM007443 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BALDI, PIERRE · 2002 to 2012
$9.3M
Efficient Data Structures and Algorithms for Genomics Sequence DataR01LM010235 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BALDI, PIERRE · 2010 to 2012
$507k
NLM NIH HHS LM010235NLM NIH HHS R01 LM010235NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007443NLM NIH HHS T15 LM07443
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shallow machine learning methods have been applied to chemoinformatics problems with some success. As more data becomes available and more complex problems are tackled, deep machine learning methods may also become useful. Here, we present a brief overview of deep learning methods and show in particular how recursive neural network approaches can be applied to the problem of predicting molecular properties. However, molecules are typically described by undirected cyclic graphs, while recursive approaches typically use directed acyclic graphs. Thus, we develop methods to address this discrepancy, essentially by considering an ensemble of recursive neural networks associated with all possible vertex-centered acyclic orientations of the molecular graph. One advantage of this approach is that it relies only minimally on the identification of suitable molecular descriptors because suitable representations are learned automatically from the data. Several variants of this approach are applied to the problem of predicting aqueous solubility and tested on four benchmark data sets. Experimental results show that the performance of the deep learning methods matches or exceeds the performance of other state-of-the-art methods according to several evaluation metrics and expose the fundamental limitations arising from training sets that are too small or too noisy. A Web-based predictor, AquaSol, is available online through the ChemDB portal ( cdb.ics.uci.edu ) together with additional material.

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Artificial IntelligenceAcetic AcidComputer GraphicsDatabases, PharmaceuticalInformaticsInternetNeural Networks, ComputerPharmaceutical PreparationsSolubilityWaterAcetic AcidPharmaceutical PreparationsWater

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PMID23795551
PMCPMC3739985

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