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ArticleNature communications2018

Determining molecular properties with differential mobility spectrometry and machine learning.

Stephen W C Walker, Ahdia Anwar, Jarrod M Psutka, Jeff Crouse, Chang Liu, J C Yves Le Blanc, Justin Montgomery, Gilles H Goetz, John S Janiszewski, J Larry Campbell and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Stephen W C WalkerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, ON, Canada.
Ahdia AnwarDepartment of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, ON, Canada.
Jarrod M PsutkaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, ON, Canada.
Jeff CrouseDepartment of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, ON, Canada.
Chang LiuSCIEX, 71 Four Valley Drive, Concord, L4V 4V8, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0508-4357
J C Yves Le BlancSCIEX, 71 Four Valley Drive, Concord, L4V 4V8, ON, Canada.
Justin MontgomeryPfizer Global Research and Development, Eastern Point Road, Groton, 06340, CT, USA.
Gilles H GoetzPfizer Global Research and Development, Eastern Point Road, Groton, 06340, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5316-1586
John S JaniszewskiPfizer Global Research and Development, Eastern Point Road, Groton, 06340, CT, USA.
J Larry CampbellDepartment of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, ON, Canada. Larry.Campbell@sciex.com.
W Scott HopkinsDepartment of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, ON, Canada. Scott.Hopkins@uwaterloo.ca.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fast and accurate determination of molecular properties is highly desirable for many facets of chemical research, particularly in drug discovery where pre-clinical assays play an important role in paring down large sets of drug candidates. Here, we present the use of supervised machine learning to treat differential mobility spectrometry - mass spectrometry data for ten topological classes of drug candidates. We demonstrate that the gas-phase clustering behavior probed in our experiments can be used to predict the candidates' condensed phase molecular properties, such as cell permeability, solubility, polar surface area, and water/octanol distribution coefficient. All of these measurements are performed in minutes and require mere nanograms of each drug examined. Moreover, by tuning gas temperature within the differential mobility spectrometer, one can fine tune the extent of ion-solvent clustering to separate subtly different molecular geometries and to discriminate molecules of very similar physicochemical properties.

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