Computational Prediction and Validation of an Expert鈥檚 Evaluation of Chemical Probes

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• 作者：Nadia K. Litterman ; Christopher A. Lipinski ; Barry A. Bunin ; Sean Ekins
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：October 27, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：54
• 期：10
• 页码：2996-3004
• 全文大小：379K
• ISSN：1549-960X

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In a decade with over half a billion dollars of investment, more than 300 chemical probes have been identified to have biological activity through NIH funded screening efforts. We have collected the evaluations of an experienced medicinal chemist on the likely chemistry quality of these probes based on a number of criteria including literature related to the probe and potential chemical reactivity. Over 20% of these probes were found to be undesirable. Analysis of the molecular properties of these compounds scored as desirable suggested higher pK_a, molecular weight, heavy atom count, and rotatable bond number. We were particularly interested whether the human evaluation aspect of medicinal chemistry due diligence could be computationally predicted. We used a process of sequential Bayesian model building and iterative testing as we included additional probes. Following external validation of these methods and comparing different machine learning methods, we identified Bayesian models with accuracy comparable to other measures of drug-likeness and filtering rules created to date.