期刊
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
卷 23, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac337
关键词
graph-based signatures; machine learning; toxCSM; toxicity; toxicity predictions
资金
- Joe White Bequest Fellowship
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [GNT1174405]
- Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program
Drug discovery is a complex and time-consuming process, with toxicity as one of the main reasons for clinical trial failures. toxCSM is a computational platform that uses graph-based signatures, molecular descriptors, and similarity scores to predict a range of toxicity properties. It outperforms alternative methods in terms of accuracy and is freely available as a user-friendly web server and API.
Drug discovery is a lengthy, costly and high-risk endeavour that is further convoluted by high attrition rates in later development stages. Toxicity has been one of the main causes of failure during clinical trials, increasing drug development time and costs. To facilitate early identification and optimisation of toxicity profiles, several computational tools emerged aiming at improving success rates by timely pre-screening drug candidates. Despite these efforts, there is an increasing demand for platforms capable of assessing both environmental as well as human-based toxicity properties at large scale. Here, we present toxCSM, a comprehensive computational platform for the study and optimisation of toxicity profiles of small molecules. toxCSM leverages on the well-established concepts of graph-based signatures, molecular descriptors and similarity scores to develop 36 models for predicting a range of toxicity properties, which can assist in developing safer drugs and agrochemicals. toxCSM achieved an Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve (AUC) of up to 0.99 and Pearson's correlation coefficients of up to 0.94 on 10-fold cross-validation, with comparable performance on blind test sets, outperforming all alternative methods. toxCSM is freely available as a user-friendly web server and API at http://biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/toxcsm.
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