Evaluating Scalable Supervised Learning for Synthesize-on-Demand Chemical Libraries

Traditional small-molecule drug discovery is a time-consuming and costly endeavor. High-throughput chemical screening can only assess a tiny fraction of drug-like chemical space. The strong predictive power of modern machine-learning methods for virtual chemical screening enables training models on known active and inactive compounds and extrapolating to much larger chemical libraries. However, there has been limited experimental validation of these methods in practical applications on large commercially available or synthesize-on-demand chemical libraries. Through a prospective evaluation with the bacterial protein-protein interaction PriA-SSB, we demonstrate that ligand-based virtual screening can identify many active compounds in large commercial libraries. We use cross-validation to compare different types of supervised learning models and select a random forest (RF) classifier as the best model for this target. When predicting the activity of more than 8 million compounds from Aldrich Market Select, the RF substantially outperforms a naïve baseline based on chemical structure similarity. 48% of the RF's 701 selected compounds are active. The RF model easily scales to score one billion compounds from the synthesize-on-demand Enamine REAL database. We tested 68 chemically diverse top predictions from Enamine REAL and observed 31 hits (46%), including one with an IC50 value of 1.3 μM.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:63

Enthalten in:

Journal of chemical information and modeling - 63(2023), 17 vom: 11. Sept., Seite 5513-5528

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Alnammi, Moayad [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Shengchao [VerfasserIn]
Ericksen, Spencer S [VerfasserIn]
Ananiev, Gene E [VerfasserIn]
Voter, Andrew F [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Song [VerfasserIn]
Keck, James L [VerfasserIn]
Hoffmann, F Michael [VerfasserIn]
Wildman, Scott A [VerfasserIn]
Gitter, Anthony [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Small Molecule Libraries

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Date Completed 12.09.2023

Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.jcim.3c00912

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361232101