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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2020

Visualization of very large high-dimensional data sets as minimum spanning trees.

Daniel Probst, Jean-Louis Reymond

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2 authors.

Daniel ProbstDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, 3012, Bern, Switzerland. daniel.probst@dcb.unibe.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1737-4407
Jean-Louis ReymondDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, 3012, Bern, Switzerland. jean-louis.reymond@dcb.unibe.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2724-2942

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 51NF40-185544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The chemical sciences are producing an unprecedented amount of large, high-dimensional data sets containing chemical structures and associated properties. However, there are currently no algorithms to visualize such data while preserving both global and local features with a sufficient level of detail to allow for human inspection and interpretation. Here, we propose a solution to this problem with a new data visualization method, TMAP, capable of representing data sets of up to millions of data points and arbitrary high dimensionality as a two-dimensional tree (http://tmap.gdb.tools). Visualizations based on TMAP are better suited than t-SNE or UMAP for the exploration and interpretation of large data sets due to their tree-like nature, increased local and global neighborhood and structure preservation, and the transparency of the methods the algorithm is based on. We apply TMAP to the most used chemistry data sets including databases of molecules such as ChEMBL, FDB17, the Natural Products Atlas, DSSTox, as well as to the MoleculeNet benchmark collection of data sets. We also show its broad applicability with further examples from biology, particle physics, and literature.

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AlgorithmsBig dataChemistry databasesData visualizationDimensionality reduction

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PMID33431043
PMCPMC7015965

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