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ReviewDrug discovery today2018

Machine learning in chemoinformatics and drug discovery.

Yu-Chen Lo, Stefano E Rensi, Wen Torng, Russ B Altman

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Review in Drug discovery today, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 281 papers.

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281citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

281 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yu-Chen LoDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Stefano E RensiDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Wen TorngDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Russ B AltmanDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Electronic address: rbaltman@stanford.edu.

Funding

THE STANFORD PHARMACOGENETICS KNOWLEDGE BASEU01GM061374 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ALTMAN, RUSS BIAGIO · 2000 to 2009
$24.0M
Text Mining for High-fidelity Curation and Discovery of Gene-drug-phenotype RelationshipsR01LM005652 · NLM · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ALTMAN, RUSS BIAGIO · 2000 to 2018
$6.2M
UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and InnovationU01FD004979 · FDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ALTMAN, RUSS BIAGIO, GIACOMINI, KATHLEEN M · 2014 to 2016
$5.4M
Undergraduate Summer Research Experiences Support for Combining systems biology and structural biology to find new therapeuticsR01GM102365 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ALTMAN, RUSS BIAGIO · 2012 to 2021
$3.0M
FDA HHS U01 FD004979NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM102365NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM061374NLM NIH HHS R01 LM005652
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemoinformatics is an established discipline focusing on extracting, processing and extrapolating meaningful data from chemical structures. With the rapid explosion of chemical 'big' data from HTS and combinatorial synthesis, machine learning has become an indispensable tool for drug designers to mine chemical information from large compound databases to design drugs with important biological properties. To process the chemical data, we first reviewed multiple processing layers in the chemoinformatics pipeline followed by the introduction of commonly used machine learning models in drug discovery and QSAR analysis. Here, we present basic principles and recent case studies to demonstrate the utility of machine learning techniques in chemoinformatics analyses; and we discuss limitations and future directions to guide further development in this evolving field.

Indexed as

InformaticsMachine LearningAnimalsDiffusion of InnovationDrug DiscoveryHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansMolecular StructurePattern Recognition, AutomatedPharmaceutical PreparationsQuantitative Structure-Activity RelationshipPharmaceutical Preparations

Identifiers

PMID29750902
PMCPMC6078794

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