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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2020

Improved Prediction of Aqueous Solubility of Novel Compounds by Going Deeper With Deep Learning.

Qiuji Cui, Shuai Lu, Bingwei Ni, Xian Zeng, Ying Tan, Ya Dong Chen, Hongping Zhao

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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Qiuji CuiSchool of Science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
Shuai LuSchool of Science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
Bingwei NiSchool of Science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
Xian ZengDepartment of Biological Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Ying TanThe State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Shenzhen Technology and Engineering Laboratory for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics, The Graduate School at Shenzhen, Shenzhen Kivita Innovative Drug Discovery Institute, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China.
Ya Dong ChenSchool of Science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
Hongping ZhaoSchool of Science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aqueous solubility is an important physicochemical property of compounds in anti-cancer drug discovery. Artificial intelligence solubility prediction tools have scored impressive performances by employing regression, machine learning, and deep learning methods. The reported performances vary significantly partly because of the different datasets used. Solubility prediction on novel compounds needs to be improved, which may be achieved by going deeper with deep learning. We constructed deeper-net models of ~20-layer modified ResNet convolutional neural network architecture, which were trained and tested with 9,943 compounds encoded by molecular fingerprints. Retrospectively tested by 62 recently-published novel compounds, one deeper-net model outperformed four established tools, shallow-net models, and four human experts. Deeper-net models also outperformed others in predicting the solubility values of a series of novel compounds newly-synthesized for anti-cancer drug discovery. Solubility prediction may be improved by going deeper with deep learning. Our deeper-net models are accessible at http://www.npbdb.net/solubility/index.jsp.

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anti-cancer drug discoveryaqueous solubilityartificial intelligencechemicalcompoundsdeep learning

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PMCPMC7026387

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