Journal
QSAR & COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 317-326Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/qsar.200510135
Keywords
graph representation; kernel methods; molecular graph mining; reduced graph representation; similarity score; support vector machines
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Kernel methods, like the well-known Support Vector Machine (SVM), have received growing attention in recent years for designing QSAR models that have a high predictive strength. One of the key concepts of SVMs is the usage of a so-called kernel function, which can be thought of as a special similarity measure. In this paper we consider kernels for molecular structures, which are based oil a graph representation of chemical compounds. The similarity score is calculated by computing an optimal assignment of the atoms from one molecule to those of another one, including information on specific chemical properties, membership to a substructure (e.g... aromatic ring, carbonyl group, etc.) and neighborhood for each atom. We show that by using this kernel we can achieve a generalization performance comparable to a classical model with a few descriptors, which are a-priori known to be relevant for the problem, and significantly better results than with and without performing all automatic descriptor selection. For this purpose we investigate ADME classification and regression datasets for predicting bioavailability (Yoshida), Human Intestinal Absorption (HIA), Blood-Brain-Barrier (BBB) penetration and a dataset consisting of four different inhibitor classes (SOL). We further explore the effect of combining our kernel with a problem-dependent descriptor set. We also demonstrate the usefulness of an extension of our method to a reduced graph representation of molecules, in which certain structural features, like, e.g., rings, donors or acceptors, are represented as a single node in the molecular graph.
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