Hybridizing feature selection and feature learning approaches in QSAR modeling for drug discovery

I Ponzoni, V Sebastián-Pérez, C Requena-Triguero… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Quantitative structure–activity relationship modeling using machine learning techniques
constitutes a complex computational problem, where the identification of the most …

Neural-based approaches to overcome feature selection and applicability domain in drug-related property prediction

MV Sabando, I Ponzoni, AJ Soto - Applied Soft Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
In the fields of pharmaceutical research and biomedical sciences, QSAR modeling is an
established approach during drug discovery for prediction of biological activity of drug …

Predictive QSAR models for polyspecific drug targets: The importance of feature selection

MA Demel, AGK Janecek, KM Thai… - … -Aided Drug Design, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Since the advent of QSAR (quantitative structure activity relationship) modeling quantitative
representations of molecular structures are encoded in terms of information-preserving …

Comprehensive ensemble in QSAR prediction for drug discovery

S Kwon, H Bae, J Jo, S Yoon - BMC bioinformatics, 2019 - Springer
Background Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) is a computational modeling
method for revealing relationships between structural properties of chemical compounds …

MaNGA: a novel multi-niche multi-objective genetic algorithm for QSAR modelling

A Serra, S Önlü, P Festa, V Fortino, D Greco - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) modelling is currently used in multiple
fields to relate structural properties of compounds to their biological activities. This technique …

Deep neural networks for QSAR

Y Xu - Artificial intelligence in drug design, 2022 - Springer
Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) models are routinely applied
computational tools in the drug discovery process. QSAR models are regression or …

Current approaches for choosing feature selection and learning algorithms in quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSAR)

PM Khan, K Roy - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Quantitative structure-activity/property relationships (QSAR/QSPR) are
statistical models which quantitatively correlate quantitative chemical structure information …

CRNNTL: convolutional recurrent neural network and transfer learning for QSAR modeling in organic drug and material discovery

Y Li, Y Xu, Y Yu - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Molecular latent representations, derived from autoencoders (AEs), have been widely used
for drug or material discovery over the past couple of years. In particular, a variety of …

Why QSAR fails: an empirical evaluation using conventional computational approach

J Huang, X Fan - Molecular pharmaceutics, 2011 - ACS Publications
Although a number of pitfalls of QSAR have been corrected in the past decade, the reliability
of QSAR models is still insufficient. The reason why QSAR fails is still under hot debate; our …

Modesus: A machine learning tool for selection of molecular descriptors in qsar studies applied to molecular informatics

MJ Martínez, M Razuc, I Ponzoni - BioMed research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The selection of the most relevant molecular descriptors to describe a target variable in the
context of QSAR (Quantitative Structure‐Activity Relationship) modelling is a challenging …