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ArticlePharmaceutics2021

B3Pred: A Random-Forest-Based Method for Predicting and Designing Blood-Brain Barrier Penetrating Peptides.

Vinod Kumar, Sumeet Patiyal, Anjali Dhall, Neelam Sharma, Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vinod KumarDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Okhla 110020, India.
Sumeet PatiyalDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Okhla 110020, India.ORCID 0000-0003-1358-292X
Anjali DhallDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Okhla 110020, India.
Neelam SharmaDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Okhla 110020, India.
Gajendra Pal Singh RaghavaDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Okhla 110020, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8902-2876
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood-brain barrier is a major obstacle in treating brain-related disorders, as it does not allow the delivery of drugs into the brain. We developed a method for predicting blood-brain barrier penetrating peptides to facilitate drug delivery into the brain. These blood-brain barrier penetrating peptides (B3PPs) can act as therapeutics, as well as drug delivery agents. We trained, tested, and evaluated our models on blood-brain barrier peptides obtained from the B3Pdb database. First, we computed a wide range of peptide features. Then, we selected relevant peptide features. Finally, we developed numerous machine-learning-based models for predicting blood-brain barrier peptides using the selected features. The random-forest-based model performed the best with respect to the top 80 selected features and achieved a maximal 85.08% accuracy with an AUROC of 0.93. We also developed a webserver, B3pred, that implements our best models. It has three major modules that allow users to predict/design B3PPs and scan B3PPs in a protein sequence.

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blood–brain barrierdrug deliverymachine learning techniquespenetrating peptidesprediction server

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PMCPMC8399279
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