Uniting cheminformatics and chemical theory to predict the intrinsic aqueous solubility of crystalline druglike molecules
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24/02/2014Funder
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BB/I00596X/1
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Abstract
We present four models of solution free-energy prediction for druglike molecules utilizing cheminformatics descriptors and theoretically calculated thermodynamic values. We make predictions of solution free energy using physics-based theory alone and using machine learning/quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) models. We also develop machine learning models where the theoretical energies and cheminformatics descriptors are used as combined input. These models are used to predict solvation free energy. While direct theoretical calculation does not give accurate results in this approach, machine learning is able to give predictions with a root mean squared error (RMSE) of ~1.1 log S units in a 10-fold cross-validation for our Drug-Like-Solubility-100 (DLS-100) dataset of 100 druglike molecules. We find that a model built using energy terms from our theoretical methodology as descriptors is marginally less predictive than one built on Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) descriptors. Combining both sets of descriptors allows a further but very modest improvement in the predictions. However, in some cases, this is a statistically significant enhancement. These results suggest that there is little complementarity between the chemical information provided by these two sets of descriptors, despite their different sources and methods of calculation. Our machine learning models are also able to predict the well-known Solubility Challenge dataset with an RMSE value of 0.9–1.0 log S units.
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McDonagh , J , Nath , N , De Ferrari , L , van Mourik , T & Mitchell , J B O 2014 , ' Uniting cheminformatics and chemical theory to predict the intrinsic aqueous solubility of crystalline druglike molecules ' , Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling , vol. 54 , no. 3 , pp. 844-856 . https://doi.org/10.1021/ci4005805
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Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
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Peer reviewed
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1549-9596Type
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Copyright © 2014 American Chemical Society. This is an early online article made open access through ACS AuthorChoice and is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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