Drug Analogs from Fragment-Based Long Short-Term Memory Generative Neural Networks

Awale, Mahendra; Sirockin, Finton; Stiefl, Nikolaus; Reymond, Jean-Louis (2019). Drug Analogs from Fragment-Based Long Short-Term Memory Generative Neural Networks. Journal of chemical information and modeling, 59(4), pp. 1347-1356. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jcim.8b00902

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Several recent reports have shown that long short-term memory generative neural networks (LSTM) of the type used for grammar learning efficiently learn to write Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) of druglike compounds when trained with SMILES from a database of bioactive compounds such as ChEMBL and can later produce focused sets upon transfer learning with compounds of specific bioactivity profiles. Here we trained an LSTM using molecules taken either from ChEMBL, DrugBank, commercially available fragments, or from FDB-17 (a database of fragments up to 17 atoms) and performed transfer learning to a single known drug to obtain new analogs of this drug. We found that this approach readily generates hundreds of relevant and diverse new drug analogs and works best with training sets of around 40,000 compounds as simple as commercial fragments. These data suggest that fragment-based LSTM offer a promising method for new molecule generation.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DCBP)

UniBE Contributor:

Awale, Mahendra, Reymond, Jean-Louis

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
500 Science > 540 Chemistry

ISSN:

1549-9596

Publisher:

American Chemical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Sandra Tanja Zbinden Di Biase

Date Deposited:

21 Jan 2020 15:51

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:35

Publisher DOI:

10.1021/acs.jcim.8b00902

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.138459

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/138459

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