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ArticleMethods (San Diego, Calif.)2015

Benchmarking methods and data sets for ligand enrichment assessment in virtual screening.

Jie Xia, Ermias Lemma Tilahun, Terry-Elinor Reid, Liangren Zhang, Xiang Simon Wang

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Article in Methods (San Diego, Calif.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Jie XiaState Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, PR China; Molecular Modeling and Drug Discovery Core for District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DC D-CFAR), Laboratory of Cheminformatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA.
Ermias Lemma TilahunMolecular Modeling and Drug Discovery Core for District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DC D-CFAR), Laboratory of Cheminformatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA.
Terry-Elinor ReidMolecular Modeling and Drug Discovery Core for District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DC D-CFAR), Laboratory of Cheminformatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA.
Liangren ZhangState Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, PR China. Electronic address: liangren@bjmu.edu.cn.
Xiang Simon WangMolecular Modeling and Drug Discovery Core for District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DC D-CFAR), Laboratory of Cheminformatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA. Electronic address: x.simon.wang@gmail.com.

Funding

PROTEOMICS CORE FACILITYG12MD007597 · NIMHD · HOWARD UNIVERSITY · PI SOUTHERLAND, WILLIAM M. · 2012 to 2018
$14.8M
The District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DC D-CFAR)P30AI087714 · NIAID · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI KASHANCHI, FATAH · 2010 to 2014
$8.4M
NIAID NIH HHS 5P30AI0877714-02NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI087714NIAID NIH HHS P30AI087714NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007597NIMHD NIH HHS G12MD007597
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retrospective small-scale virtual screening (VS) based on benchmarking data sets has been widely used to estimate ligand enrichments of VS approaches in the prospective (i.e. real-world) efforts. However, the intrinsic differences of benchmarking sets to the real screening chemical libraries can cause biased assessment. Herein, we summarize the history of benchmarking methods as well as data sets and highlight three main types of biases found in benchmarking sets, i.e. "analogue bias", "artificial enrichment" and "false negative". In addition, we introduce our recent algorithm to build maximum-unbiased benchmarking sets applicable to both ligand-based and structure-based VS approaches, and its implementations to three important human histone deacetylases (HDACs) isoforms, i.e. HDAC1, HDAC6 and HDAC8. The leave-one-out cross-validation (LOO CV) demonstrates that the benchmarking sets built by our algorithm are maximum-unbiased as measured by property matching, ROC curves and AUCs.

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BenchmarkingAlgorithmsArea Under CurveDrug DiscoveryDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalLigandsROC CurveLigandsAnalogue biasArtificial enrichmentBenchmarking methodologyDecoy setsLigand-based virtual screeningStructure-based virtual screening

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PMID25481478
PMCPMC4278665

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