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ArticleMolecular informatics2025

From High Dimensions to Human Insight: Exploring Dimensionality Reduction for Chemical Space Visualization.

Alexey A Orlov, Tagir N Akhmetshin, Dragos Horvath, Gilles Marcou, Alexandre Varnek

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Article in Molecular informatics, 2025. 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.

Alexey A OrlovLaboratory of Chemoinformatics, UMR 7140 CNRS, University of Strasbourg, 4, Blaise Pascal Str., 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Tagir N AkhmetshinLaboratory of Chemoinformatics, UMR 7140 CNRS, University of Strasbourg, 4, Blaise Pascal Str., 67000, Strasbourg, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2549-6431
Dragos HorvathLaboratory of Chemoinformatics, UMR 7140 CNRS, University of Strasbourg, 4, Blaise Pascal Str., 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Gilles MarcouLaboratory of Chemoinformatics, UMR 7140 CNRS, University of Strasbourg, 4, Blaise Pascal Str., 67000, Strasbourg, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1676-6708
Alexandre VarnekLaboratory of Chemoinformatics, UMR 7140 CNRS, University of Strasbourg, 4, Blaise Pascal Str., 67000, Strasbourg, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1886-925X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dimensionality reduction is an important exploratory data analysis method that allows high-dimensional data to be represented in a human-interpretable lower-dimensional space. It is extensively applied in the analysis of chemical libraries, where chemical structure data - represented as high-dimensional feature vectors-are transformed into 2D or 3D chemical space maps. In this paper, commonly used dimensionality reduction techniques - Principal Component Analysis (PCA), t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE), Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP), and Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) - are evaluated in terms of neighborhood preservation and visualization capability of sets of small molecules from the ChEMBL database.

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Small Molecule LibrariesAlgorithmsDatabases, ChemicalDimensionality ReductionHumansPrincipal Component AnalysisSmall Molecule Librarieschemical librarieschemical spacechemographydimensionality reductionGenerative Topographic Mappingprincipal component analysist-distributed Stochastic Neighbor EmbeddingUniform Manifold Approximation and Projection

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PMID39633514
PMCPMC11733715

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