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  • Computational Chemistry
  • Cheminformatics
  • Machine Learning in Drug Discovery

Background:

  • Massively-multitask regression models (MMRMs) have emerged as powerful tools for predicting compound bioactivity in drug discovery.
  • These models, trained on extensive datasets, offer accuracy comparable to experimental measurements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the performance of six leading MMRMs (pQSAR, Alchemite, MT-DNN, MetaNN, Macau, IMC) for bioactivity profile imputation.
  • To evaluate the impact of different training/test set splits on MMRM performance and accuracy estimation.

Main Methods:

  • Six MMRMs were trained by experts on identical datasets comprising 159 kinase and 4276 ChEMBL assays.
  • Models were evaluated using both 75/25 and 99+/ <1% training/test set splits to assess performance under varying data availability scenarios.
  • Comparative analysis included qualitative assessment and statistical rigor, benchmarking against single-task random forest regression (ST-RFR).

    • Main Results:

    • MMRMs significantly outperformed the ST-RFR model in bioactivity profile imputation.
    • Performance varied considerably based on the training/test split; 75/25 splits led to a substantial underestimation of model accuracy compared to 99+/ <1% splits.
    • While MMRMs excel at imputing profiles within the training data distribution, their advantage diminishes for compounds dissimilar to the training set.

    Conclusions:

    • MMRMs are highly effective for tasks like hit-finding, off-target prediction, and drug repurposing within the chemical space of the training data.
    • The choice of data splitting strategy critically impacts the perceived accuracy of MMRMs, necessitating the use of realistic, smaller test sets for reliable evaluation.
    • MMRMs' utility is greatest for exploring known chemical spaces, while their performance on novel chemical entities requires further investigation.