Implementing relevance feedback in ligand-based virtual screening using Bayesian inference network

A Abdo, N Salim, A Ahmed - Journal of biomolecular …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, the use of the Bayesian network as an alternative to existing tools for similarity-
based virtual screening has received noticeable attention from researchers in the …

Ligand‐based virtual screening using Bayesian inference network and reweighted fragments

A Ahmed, A Abdo, N Salim - The Scientific World Journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Many of the similarity‐based virtual screening approaches assume that molecular fragments
that are not related to the biological activity carry the same weight as the important ones …

An enhancement of bayesian inference network for ligand-based virtual screening using features selection

A Ahmed, A Abdo, N Salim - American Journal of Applied …, 2011 - ksascholar.dri.sa
Abstract Similarity based Virtual Screening (VS) deals with a large amount of data
containing irrelevant and/or redundant fragments or features. Recent use of Bayesian …

Ligand-based virtual screening using bayesian networks

A Abdo, B Chen, C Mueller, N Salim… - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A Bayesian inference network (BIN) provides an interesting alternative to existing tools for
similarity-based virtual screening. The BIN is particularly effective when the active molecules …

Similarity‐based virtual screening with a Bayesian inference network

A Abdo, N Salim - ChemMedChem: Chemistry Enabling Drug …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
An inference network model for molecular similarity searching: The similarity search problem
is modeled using inference or evidential reasoning under uncertainty. The inference network …

New fragment weighting scheme for the bayesian inference network in ligand-based virtual screening

A Abdo, N Salim - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2011 - ACS Publications
Many of the conventional similarity methods assume that molecular fragments that do not
relate to biological activity carry the same weight as the important ones. One possible …

Ligand expansion in ligand-based virtual screening using relevance feedback

A Abdo, F Saeed, H Hamza, A Ahmed… - Journal of computer-aided …, 2012 - Springer
Query expansion is the process of reformulating an original query to improve retrieval
performance in information retrieval systems. Relevance feedback is one of the most useful …

Evaluation of a Bayesian inference network for ligand-based virtual screening

B Chen, C Mueller, P Willett - Journal of cheminformatics, 2009 - Springer
Background Bayesian inference networks enable the computation of the probability that an
event will occur. They have been used previously to rank textual documents in order of …

Fragment reweighting in ligand-based virtual screening

A Ahmed, N Salim, A Abdo - Advanced Science Letters, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Many methods have developed to capture the biological similarity between two compounds
for use in drug discovery. A variety of similarity metrics have introduced, Tanimoto coefficient …

Performance of machine learning methods for ligand-based virtual screening

D Plewczynski, SAH Spieser… - Combinatorial chemistry & …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Computational screening of compound databases has become increasingly popular in
pharmaceutical research. This review focuses on the evaluation of ligand-based virtual …