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I Dasgupta1, R Roy2, S Gayen1
1Laboratory of Drug Design and Discovery, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
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The rapid advancement of ML algorithms and the increasing availability of large datasets have significantly transformed the landscape of predictive modelling in scientific research. In this context, we introduce Optima (OPTimized Interpretable Model Building & Analysis Toolkit), a user-friendly, Python-based GUI designed to simplify and accelerate the development of interpretable ML-based classification QSAR/QSPR/QSTR models. This toolkit offers an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), enabling users with domain knowledge but limited coding experience to efficiently optimize, construct, and interpret various ML-based classification models. A most highlighting feature of this GUI is its fully customizable settings panel, allowing users to modify colour schemes, font sizes, axis labels, and plot dimensions to suit publication or presentation needs. By combining robust optimization with an explainable approach, the Optima toolkit improves classification QSAR model performance while ensuring transparency and reproducibility. This platform addresses a critical need by providing an intuitive GUI for rational dataset splitting, efficient feature selection, and the development of seven different ML-based classification QSAR models, covering the entire workflow from optimization to interpretation. The toolkit is presently available for Windows and can be downloaded from the provided link (https://github.com/Rahul-Roy-21/OPTIMA).
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