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多实例学习改善了Ames对有问题的分子物种的突变性预测
Samuel V Feeney1, Raymond Lui1, Davy Guan1
1Computational Pharmacology & Toxicology Laboratory, Discipline of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Chemical research in toxicology
|July 21, 2023
概括
多重实例学习 (MIL) 能够有效地预测艾姆斯的突变性,即使对于需要代谢激活的复杂分子. 这种方法有望改善药物开发和化学安全中的毒理学评估.
科学领域:
- 毒理学 毒理学 毒理学
- 计算化学计算化学
- 药物发现 药物发现 药物发现
背景情况:
- 艾姆斯突变性预测对于监管和药物毒理学至关重要.
- 传统的QSAR模型与需要代谢激活的化合物作斗争.
- 在激活过程中形成的代谢物缺乏个别的致变性标签,阻碍了传统的建模.
研究的目的:
- 探索多个实例学习 (MIL) 在预测艾姆斯突变性方面的实用性.
- 开发和评估能够处理代谢活性化合物的MIL模型.
- 评估MIL在具有挑战性的化学数据集上的表现.
主要方法:
- 训练有素的MIL模型在Ames变异性数据上,从芳香胺 (n=457) 开始,扩展到更大的数据集 (n=6505).
- 利用MIL将母分子及其潜在代谢物分组在一个单一的致变性标签下.
- 将MIL模型的性能与既有预测模型进行比较.
主要成果:
- MIL模型实现了0.778的平衡精度,与现有方法相比.
- MIL在之前识别的难以预测的化学组上表现出强大的预测性能.
- 改进的准确性归因于MIL对代谢激活通路的考虑.
结论:
- MIL为Ames变异性预测提供了一种可行的方法,特别是对于代谢活性化合物.
- MIL可以补充现有的模型,增强隐性代谢物建模不足的地方的预测.
- 这项研究强调了MIL在改善对异生菌的毒理风险评估方面的潜力.
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