Exploiting uncertainty measures in compounds activity prediction using support vector machines

Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2015 Jan 1;25(1):100-5. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.11.005. Epub 2014 Nov 7.

Abstract

The great majority of molecular modeling tasks require the construction of a model that is then used to evaluate new compounds. Although various types of these models exist, at some stage, they all use knowledge about the activity of a given group of compounds, and the performance of the models is dependent on the quality of these data. Biological experiments verifying the activity of chemical compounds are often not reproducible; hence, databases containing these results often possess various activity records for a given molecule. In this study, we developed a method that incorporates the uncertainty of biological tests in machine-learning-based experiments using the Support Vector Machine as a classification model. We show that the developed methodology improves the classification effectiveness in the tested conditions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Forecasting
  • Humans
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / chemistry*
  • Rats
  • Support Vector Machine*
  • Uncertainty*

Substances

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations