Comparison of scaling methods to obtain calibrated probabilities of activity for protein–ligand predictions

LH Mervin, AM Afzal, O Engkvist… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the context of bioactivity prediction, the question of how to calibrate a score produced by a
machine learning method into a probability of binding to a protein target is not yet …

Probabilistic Random Forest improves bioactivity predictions close to the classification threshold by taking into account experimental uncertainty

LH Mervin, MA Trapotsi, AM Afzal, IP Barrett… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Measurements of protein–ligand interactions have reproducibility limits due to experimental
errors. Any model based on such assays will consequentially have such unavoidable errors …

Ligand efficiency-based support vector regression models for predicting bioactivities of ligands to drug target proteins

N Sugaya - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2014 - ACS Publications
The concept of ligand efficiency (LE) indices is widely accepted throughout the drug design
community and is frequently used in a retrospective manner in the process of drug …

Comparing global and local likelihood score thresholds in multiclass laplacian-modified naive bayes protein target prediction

G Drakakis, A Koutsoukas… - … Chemistry & High …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
The increase of publicly available bioactivity data has led to the extensive development and
usage of in silico bioactivity prediction algorithms. A particularly popular approach for such …

Dynamic applicability domain (dAD): compound–target binding affinity estimates with local conformal prediction

D Oršolić, T Šmuc - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Increasing efforts are being made in the field of machine learning to advance the
learning of robust and accurate models from experimentally measured data and enable …

Ligand-target prediction using Winnow and naive Bayesian algorithms and the implications of overall performance statistics

F Nigsch, A Bender, JL Jenkins… - Journal of chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
We compared two algorithms for ligand-target prediction, namely, the Laplacian-modified
Bayesian classifier and the Winnow algorithm. A dataset derived from the WOMBAT …

An analysis of proteochemometric and conformal prediction machine learning protein-ligand binding affinity models

C Parks, Z Gaieb, RE Amaro - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Protein-ligand binding affinity is a key pharmacodynamic endpoint in drug discovery. Sole
reliance on experimental design, make, and test cycles is costly and time consuming …

Validation strategies for target prediction methods

N Mathai, Y Chen, J Kirchmair - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Computational methods for target prediction, based on molecular similarity and network-
based approaches, machine learning, docking and others, have evolved as valuable and …

Latent biases in machine learning models for predicting binding affinities using popular data sets

GC Kanakala, R Aggarwal, D Nayar… - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Drug design involves the process of identifying and designing molecules that bind well to a
given receptor. A vital computational component of this process is the protein–ligand …

Predicting the reliability of drug-target interaction predictions with maximum coverage of target space

A Peón, S Naulaerts, PJ Ballester - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Many computational methods to predict the macromolecular targets of small organic
molecules have been presented to date. Despite progress, target prediction methods still …