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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2024

MolCompass: multi-tool for the navigation in chemical space and visual validation of QSAR/QSPR models.

Sergey Sosnin

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Article in Journal of cheminformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. AI/ML-based computational models for toxicity prediction.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2026
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  3. Combined Modeling Approaches for Assessing Sodium-Iodide Symporter Inhibition.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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Sergey SosninDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090, Vienna, Austria. sergey.sosnin@univie.ac.at.

Funding

H2020 European Research Council No. 964537 (RISK-HUNT3R)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The exponential growth of data is challenging for humans because their ability to analyze data is limited. Especially in chemistry, there is a demand for tools that can visualize molecular datasets in a convenient graphical way. We propose a new, ready-to-use, multi-tool, and open-source framework for visualizing and navigating chemical space. This framework adheres to the low-code/no-code (LCNC) paradigm, providing a KNIME node, a web-based tool, and a Python package, making it accessible to a broad cheminformatics community. The core technique of the MolCompass framework employs a pre-trained parametric t-SNE model. We demonstrate how this framework can be adapted for the visualisation of chemical space and visual validation of binary classification QSAR/QSPR models, revealing their weaknesses and identifying model cliffs. All parts of the framework are publicly available on GitHub, providing accessibility to the broad scientific community. Scientific contributionWe provide an open-source, ready-to-use set of tools for the visualization of chemical space. These tools can be insightful for chemists to analyze compound datasets and for the visual validation of QSAR/QSPR models.

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Applicability domainChemical space visualizationChemoinformaticsClusteringQSAR/QSPR modellingVisual validation

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PMID39129016
PMCPMC11318166

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