Issue 24, 2018

Large-scale comparison of machine learning methods for drug target prediction on ChEMBL

Abstract

Deep learning is currently the most successful machine learning technique in a wide range of application areas and has recently been applied successfully in drug discovery research to predict potential drug targets and to screen for active molecules. However, due to (1) the lack of large-scale studies, (2) the compound series bias that is characteristic of drug discovery datasets and (3) the hyperparameter selection bias that comes with the high number of potential deep learning architectures, it remains unclear whether deep learning can indeed outperform existing computational methods in drug discovery tasks. We therefore assessed the performance of several deep learning methods on a large-scale drug discovery dataset and compared the results with those of other machine learning and target prediction methods. To avoid potential biases from hyperparameter selection or compound series, we used a nested cluster-cross-validation strategy. We found (1) that deep learning methods significantly outperform all competing methods and (2) that the predictive performance of deep learning is in many cases comparable to that of tests performed in wet labs (i.e., in vitro assays).

Graphical abstract: Large-scale comparison of machine learning methods for drug target prediction on ChEMBL

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
10 1 2018
Accepted
16 5 2018
First published
06 6 2018
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 5441-5451

Large-scale comparison of machine learning methods for drug target prediction on ChEMBL

A. Mayr, G. Klambauer, T. Unterthiner, M. Steijaert, J. K. Wegner, H. Ceulemans, D. Clevert and S. Hochreiter, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 5441 DOI: 10.1039/C8SC00148K

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