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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2025

Site-of-Metabolism Prediction with Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification.

Roxane Axel Jacob, Oliver Wieder, Ya Chen, Angelica Mazzolari, Andreas Bergner, Klaus-Juergen Schleifer, Johannes Kirchmair

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Roxane Axel JacobDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, Vienna 1090, Austria.ORCID 0009-0001-4716-7014
Oliver WiederDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, Vienna 1090, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-4967-7613
Ya ChenDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, Vienna 1090, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-5273-1815
Angelica MazzolariDipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano I-20133, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1352-1094
Andreas BergnerGlobal Medicinal Chemistry, Boehringer Ingelheim RCV GmbH & Co KG, Vienna 1120, Austria.
Klaus-Juergen SchleiferBASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 67063, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3428-1384
Johannes KirchmairDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, Vienna 1090, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-2667-5877

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Abstract

In silico metabolism prediction models have become indispensable tools to optimize the metabolic properties of xenobiotics while preserving their intended biological activity. Among these, site-of-metabolism (SOM) prediction models are particularly valuable for pinpointing metabolically labile atomic positions. However, the practical utility of these models depends not only on their ability to deliver accurate predictions but also on their capacity to provide reliable estimates of predictive uncertainty. In this work, we introduce aweSOM, a graph neural network (GNN)-based SOM prediction model that leverages deep ensembling to model the total predictive accuracy and partition it into its aleatoric and epistemic components. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of aweSOM's uncertainty estimates on a high-quality data set, identifying key challenges that currently constrain the performance of SOM prediction models. Based on these findings, we propose actionable insights to drive progress in the field of metabolism prediction.

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XenobioticsNeural Networks, ComputerUncertaintyXenobiotics

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PMID40767561
PMCPMC12381852

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