Classifying 'drug-likeness' with kernel-based learning methods

Klaus Robert Müller, Gunnar Rätsch, Sören Sonnenburg, Sebastian Mika, Michael Grimm, Nikolaus Heinrich

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Abstract

In this article we report about a successful application of modern machine learning technology, namely Support Vector Machines, to the problem of assessing the 'drug-likeness' of a chemical from a given set of descriptors of the substance. We were able to drastically improve the recent result by Byvatov et al. (2003) on this task and achieved an error rate of about 7% on unseen compounds using Support Vector Machines. We see a very high potential of such machine learning techniques for a variety of computational chemistry problems that occur in the drug discovery and drug design process.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)249-253
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Volume45
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Chemical Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Library and Information Sciences

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