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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
Volume 62, Issue 21, Pages 5050-5058Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00584
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This study proposes a novel molecular encoding scheme for predicting antimalarial natural products. By training and comparing machine learning algorithms, the results show that this encoding scheme is highly accurate and effective, and can be used in other biomedical applications.
Malaria is a threatening disease that has claimed many lives and has a high prevalence rate annually. Through the past decade, there have been many studies to uncover effective antimalarial compounds to combat this disease. Alongside chemically synthesized chemicals, a number of natural compounds have also been proven to be as effective in their antimalarial properties. Besides experimental approaches to investigate antimalarial activities in natural products, computational methods have been developed with satisfactory outcomes obtained. In this study, we propose a novel molecular encoding scheme based on Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and used our pretrained encoding model called NPBERT with four machine learning algorithms, including k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGB), and Random Forest (RF), to develop various prediction models to identify antimalarial natural products. The results show that SVM models are the best-performing classifiers, followed by the XGB, k-NN, and RF models. Additionally, comparative analysis between our proposed molecular encoding scheme and existing state-of-the-art methods indicates that NPBERT is more effective compared to the others. Moreover, the deployment of transformers in constructing molecular encoders is not limited to this study but can be utilized for other biomedical applications.
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