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ArticleJournal of computational chemistry2021

ClassicalGSG: Prediction of log P using classical molecular force fields and geometric scattering for graphs.

Nazanin Donyapour, Matthew Hirn, Alex Dickson

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Article in Journal of computational chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Undirected Exploration of Binding Pockets with Flexible Topology.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  2. AGDIFF: Attention-Enhanced Diffusion for Molecular Geometry Prediction.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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  4. Flexible Topology: A Dynamic Model of a Continuous Chemical Space.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2023
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  7. Evaluation of log P, pKJournal of computer-aided molecular design · 2021
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3 authors.

Nazanin DonyapourDepartment of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2269-722X
Matthew HirnDepartment of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0290-4292
Alex DicksonDepartment of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9640-1380

Funding

Revealing the Ligand Binding Landscape with Advanced Molecular Simulation MethodsR01GM130794 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI DICKSON, ALEXANDER · 2018 to 2025
$2.8M
Finding emergent structure in multi-sample biological data with the dual geometry of cells and features R01GM135929 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BROWN, EDWARD · 2019 to 2022
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM130794NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM130794NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM135929NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM135929
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work examines methods for predicting the partition coefficient (log P) for a dataset of small molecules. Here, we use atomic attributes such as radius and partial charge, which are typically used as force field parameters in classical molecular dynamics simulations. These atomic attributes are transformed into index-invariant molecular features using a recently developed method called geometric scattering for graphs (GSG). We call this approach "ClassicalGSG" and examine its performance under a broad range of conditions and hyperparameters. We train ClassicalGSG log P predictors with neural networks using 10,722 molecules from the OpenChem dataset and apply them to predict the log P values from four independent test sets. The ClassicalGSG method's performance is compared to a baseline model that employs graph convolutional networks. Our results show that the best prediction accuracies are obtained using atomic attributes generated with the CHARMM generalized force field and 2D molecular structures.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationNeural Networks, ComputerDatabases, Chemicalgeometric scattering for graphsgraph convolutional networkslog P predictionpartition coefficients

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PMID33786857
PMCPMC8062296

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