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48 results for drug screening

Understanding the phenotypic drug response on cancer cell lines plays a vital rule in anti-cancer drug discovery and re-purposing. The Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) database provides open data for researchers in phenotypic screening to test their models and methods. Previously, most research in these ar…

2018-12-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning uses ROC cost functions to improve virtual screening accuracy.

problem Challenges in training deep learning models for virtual screening, especially class imbalance and lack of ground truth labels.
method Proposes using ROC cost functions to optimize deep learning models for virtual screening, introduces new training schemes and cost functions.
result Demonstrates improved performance of ROC-based approaches on PubChem datasets.

ChemCPA predicts cellular responses to novel drugs using transfer learning.

problem Scaling high-throughput screens to measure cellular responses for many drugs is costly and challenging.
method ChemCPA, a new encoder-decoder architecture combined with transfer learning.
result Training on existing bulk RNA HTS datasets improves generalization performance, reducing the need for extensive single-cell screens.

Unified model learns from proteins and ligands for drug design.

problem Disjoint data sources and modeling assumptions limit joint use of structure- and ligand-based drug design.
method Contrastive Geometric Learning for Unified Computational Drug Design (ConGLUDe)
result Unified model achieves competitive zero-shot virtual screening performance and state-of-the-art ligand-conditioned pocket selection.

Machine learning predicts NaV1.7 inhibitors, leading to effective drug K1.

problem Predicting and optimizing NaV1.7 inhibitors for therapeutic use.
method Machine learning, specifically RF-CDK model, for predicting and screening.
result RF-CDK model identified effective compound K1, verified by cell patch clamp.

Bayesian methods improve drug discovery experiment design.

problem Optimizing drug screening experiments in high-dimensional data.
method Bayesian inference and optimisation with upper confidence bound algorithms, Thompson sampling, and sparse tree search.
result Sparse tree search techniques outperform other methods in drug toxicity screening.

Proposes a multi-view architecture for drug-target interaction prediction.

problem Representing compound-target pairs in deep learning models.
method Integrates differentiable and predefined molecular descriptors using an adversarial multi-view architecture.
result Demonstrates potential of the proposed approach on clinically relevant datasets.

PDBAL targets experiments for probabilistic models to maximize insights.

problem Designing experiments to yield valuable insights efficiently.
method Combines user-specified risk function with probabilistic model to adaptively choose designs.
result PDBAL consistently outperforms standard approaches in simulations and real-world drug screen data.

Computational approaches to drug discovery can reduce the time and cost associated with experimental assays and enable the screening of novel chemotypes. Structure-based drug design methods rely on scoring functions to rank and predict binding affinities and poses. The ever-expanding amount of protein-ligand binding an…

2016-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a novel transfer learning approach for orphan screening called corresponding projections. In orphan screening the learning task is to predict the binding affinities of compounds to an orphan protein, i.e., one for which no training data is available. The identification of compounds with high affinity is a ce…

2018-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Complex or co-existing diseases are commonly treated using drug combinations, which can lead to higher risk of adverse side effects. The detection of polypharmacy side effects is usually done in Phase IV clinical trials, but there are still plenty which remain undiscovered when the drugs are put on the market. Such acc…

2019-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a scalable model for drug combination prediction in cancer.

problem Accurate prediction of drug combinations for cancer treatment.
method Permutation invariant multi-output Gaussian Processes with variational approximation and deep generative model.
result Model efficiently borrows information across drug combinations and provides uncertainty quantification.

A method selects candidates based on predictions with statistical control.

problem Screening candidates for resource-intensive steps like hiring or drug discovery.
method Wraps around any prediction model to produce a subset of candidates with controlled false selection rate.
result Empirically demonstrates selection of candidates whose predictions exceed a data-dependent threshold.

Network medicine predicts repurposable drugs for COVID-19.

problem Identifying effective drugs for SARS-CoV-2 infections quickly.
method Artificial intelligence, network diffusion, and network proximity algorithms.
result A multimodal approach combining predictions from multiple algorithms outperforms individual methods.

Semi-supervised learning improves QSAR model predictions for novel compounds.

problem Improving model predictions for compounds not in the training set and adjusting for selection bias.
method Semi-supervised learning framework to estimate model quality and adjust for selection bias.
result Predictions for novel compounds are improved by accounting for compound similarity and selection bias.

SMILES Transformer learns molecular fingerprints for drug discovery.

problem Poor performance of rule-based molecular fingerprints in shallow prediction models or small datasets.
method Unsupervised pre-training of a sequence-to-sequence language model on a corpus of SMILES.
result SMILES Transformer outperformed existing methods in small-data settings.

Co-Diffusion predicts drug-target affinity by learning latent manifolds and diffusion, improving generalization.

problem Cold-start regimes in drug-target affinity prediction due to label scarcity and domain shifts.
method Two-stage framework: latent manifold alignment and latent diffusion regularization.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, especially in zero-shot generalization.

High throughput screening of compounds (chemicals) is an essential part of drug discovery [7], involving thousands to millions of compounds, with the purpose of identifying candidate hits. Most statistical tools, including the industry standard B-score method, work on individual compound plates and do not exploit cross…

2017-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

DOCKSTRING simplifies docking simulations for better drug design benchmarks.

problem Lack of meaningful benchmarks for ligand design.
method Open-source Python package for docking scores, extensive dataset, and pharmaceutically-relevant tasks.
result Docking scores are more appropriate benchmarks than simple physicochemical properties.

RAMBO optimizes multi-regime problems by discovering and modeling distinct energy basins.

problem Multi-regime problems in molecular conformation and drug discovery.
method Dirichlet Process Mixture of Gaussian Processes with adaptive hyperparameters and concentration parameters.
result Consistent improvements over state-of-the-art on multi-regime objectives.

Paper introduces a method to predict molecule properties from diverse data sources.

problem Limited ability to accommodate scarce or fragmented training data.
method Adaptive Invariance using invariant risk minimization to generalize beyond heterogeneous data.
result Predictor outperforms state-of-the-art transfer learning methods by significant margin.

DeepSIBA predicts biological effects of chemical structures using graph neural networks.

problem Predicting biological effects of chemical structures for drug discovery.
method Siamese Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for structure-biological effect mapping.
result Highly accurate predictions of biological effects for structurally dissimilar compounds.

Bayesian framework for analyzing heterogeneous covariance data with a novel MoE-Wishart model.

problem Analyzing complex multivariate systems with varying covariance structures.
method Comprehensive Bayesian framework using mixture-of-experts Wishart model with predictor-dependent mixture weights.
result Accurate subpopulation recovery and estimation in heterogeneous covariance scenarios.

Deep filtering improves robustness of models from noisy, sparse data.

problem Challenges in understanding microscopic interactions from noisy, sparse, and biased data.
method Statistical approach based on deep filtering of nonlinear feature networks.
result Physicochemical models are more robust, transparent, and generalize better.

Molecular "fingerprints" encoding structural information are the workhorse of cheminformatics and machine learning in drug discovery applications. However, fingerprint representations necessarily emphasize particular aspects of the molecular structure while ignoring others, rather than allowing the model to make data-d…

2016-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning methods such as multitask neural networks have recently been applied to ligand-based virtual screening and other drug discovery applications. Using a set of industrial ADMET datasets, we compare neural networks to standard baseline models and analyze multitask learning effects with both random cross-valid…

2016-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

New method designs antimicrobial peptides with high potency and low toxicity.

problem Designing potent antimicrobial drugs with low toxicity.
method CLaSS method using deep generative autoencoder and atomistic simulations.
result Design and synthesis of two novel AMPs with high potency and low toxicity.

In this paper, we presented a novel convolutional neural network framework for graph modeling, with the introduction of two new modules specially designed for graph-structured data: the kk-th order convolution operator and the adaptive filtering module. Importantly, our framework of High-order and Adaptive Graph Convo…

2017-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗