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We investigate the learning of quantitative structure activity relationships (QSARs) as a case-study of meta-learning. This application area is of the highest societal importance, as it is a key step in the development of new medicines. The…
Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) is a computer modeling technique for identifying relationships between the structural properties of chemical compounds and biological activity. QSAR modeling is necessary for drug…
Supervised learning models, also known as quantitative structure-activity regression (QSAR) models, are increasingly used in assisting the process of preclinical, small molecule drug discovery. The models are trained on data consisting of a…
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) approaches have been increasingly applied in drug discovery to learn molecular representations and identify substructures driving property predictions. However, building end-to-end explainable…
Chemists have been pursuing the general mathematical laws to explain and predict molecular properties for a long time. However, most of the traditional quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models have limited application…
Activity cliffs, which refer to pairs of molecules that are structurally similar but show significant differences in their potency, can lead to model representation collapse and make the model challenging to distinguish them. Our research…
Machine learning, data mining and artificial intelligence (AI) based methods have been used to determine the relations between chemical structure and biological activity, called quantitative structure activity relationships (QSARs) for the…
Activity cliff prediction - identifying positions where small structural changes cause large potency shifts - has been a persistent challenge in computational medicinal chemistry. This work focuses on a parsimonious definition: which small…
Molecular property prediction is of crucial importance in many disciplines such as drug discovery, molecular biology, or material and process design. The frequently employed quantitative structure-property/activity relationships…
Molecular featurisation refers to the transformation of molecular data into numerical feature vectors. It is one of the key research areas in molecular machine learning and computational drug discovery. Recently, message-passing graph…
Quantitative structure-activity relationship assumes a smooth relationship between molecular structure and biological activity. However, activity cliffs defined as pairs of structurally similar compounds with large potency differences break…
Although artificial neural networks have occasionally been used for Quantitative Structure-Activity/Property Relationship (QSAR/QSPR) studies in the past, the literature has of late been dominated by other machine learning techniques such…
Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modelling is widely employed in materials science to predict properties of interest and extract useful descriptors for measured properties. In thermal barrier coatings (TBC), QSAR can…
With the consolidation of deep learning in drug discovery, several novel algorithms for learning molecular representations have been proposed. Despite the interest of the community in developing new methods for learning molecular embeddings…
Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) has proved an invaluable tool in medicinal chemistry. Data availability at unprecedented levels through various databases have collaborated to a resurgence in the interest for QSAR. In…
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