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Area of Science:

  • Computational chemistry and pharmacology
  • Drug discovery and development
  • Natural product research

Background:

  • Antibiotic resistance necessitates novel therapeutic agents.
  • Natural products (NPs) show promise as antibiotic candidates.
  • Current experimental methods struggle to explore the vast chemical space of NPs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To screen natural products (NPs) for antibacterial efficacy using a combined Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and modern medicine approach.
  • To construct a dataset of potential NP antibiotic candidates for drug design.
  • To validate the dataset's utility through machine learning classification tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a knowledge-based network integrating NPs, herbs, TCM concepts, and modern infectious disease treatments.
  • Screening of NP candidates using the network and subsequent dataset construction.
  • Application of machine learning feature selection for dataset evaluation and validation of NP importance.

Main Results:

  • The constructed dataset achieved high classification performance: 0.9421 weighted accuracy, 0.9324 recall, and 0.9409 precision.
  • Experiments validated the dataset's effectiveness in identifying promising NP antibiotic candidates.
  • Model interpretation through sample importance visualization confirmed medical relevance.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed in silico approach effectively screens natural products for antibiotic potential.
  • The developed dataset and methodology support the design of new antibiotics.
  • Integrating traditional and modern medicine knowledge enhances natural product drug discovery.