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Predicting Off-Target Binding Profiles With Confidence Using Conformal Prediction.

ABSTRACT: Ligand-based models can be used in drug discovery to obtain an early indication of potential off-target interactions that could be linked to adverse effects. Another application is to combine such models into a panel, allowing to compare and search for compounds with similar profiles. Most contemporary methods and implementations however lack valid measures of confidence in their predictions, and only provide point predictions. We here describe a methodology that uses Conformal Prediction for predicting off-target interactions, with models trained on data from 31 targets in the ExCAPE-DB dataset selected for their utility in broad early hazard assessment. Chemicals were represented by the signature molecular descriptor and support vector machines were used as the underlying machine learning method. By using conformal prediction, the results from predictions come in the form of confidence p-values for each class. The full pre-processing and model training process is openly available as scientific workflows on GitHub, rendering it fully reproducible. We illustrate the usefulness of the developed methodology on a set of compounds extracted from DrugBank. The resulting models are published online and are available via a graphical web interface and an OpenAPI interface for programmatic access.

SUBMITTER: Lampa S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6233526 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Predicting Off-Target Binding Profiles With Confidence Using Conformal Prediction.

Lampa Samuel S Alvarsson Jonathan J Arvidsson Mc Shane Staffan S Berg Arvid A Ahlberg Ernst E Spjuth Ola O

Frontiers in pharmacology 20181106

Ligand-based models can be used in drug discovery to obtain an early indication of potential off-target interactions that could be linked to adverse effects. Another application is to combine such models into a panel, allowing to compare and search for compounds with similar profiles. Most contemporary methods and implementations however lack valid measures of confidence in their predictions, and only provide point predictions. We here describe a methodology that uses Conformal Prediction for pr ...[more]

PMID: 30459617

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Project description:BackgroundMotivated by the increased amount of data on protein-RNA interactions and the availability of complete genome sequences of several organisms, many computational methods have been proposed to predict binding sites in protein-RNA interactions. However, most computational methods are limited to finding RNA-binding sites in proteins instead of protein-binding sites in RNAs. Predicting protein-binding sites in RNA is more challenging than predicting RNA-binding sites in proteins. Recent computational methods for finding protein-binding sites in RNAs have several drawbacks for practical use.ResultsWe developed a new support vector machine (SVM) model for predicting protein-binding regions in mRNA sequences. The model uses sequence profiles constructed from log-odds scores of mono- and di-nucleotides and nucleotide compositions. The model was evaluated by standard 10-fold cross validation, leave-one-protein-out (LOPO) cross validation and independent testing. Since actual mRNA sequences have more non-binding regions than protein-binding regions, we tested the model on several datasets with different ratios of protein-binding regions to non-binding regions. The best performance of the model was obtained in a balanced dataset of positive and negative instances. 10-fold cross validation with a balanced dataset achieved a sensitivity of 91.6%, a specificity of 92.4%, an accuracy of 92.0%, a positive predictive value (PPV) of 91.7%, a negative predictive value (NPV) of 92.3% and a Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.840. LOPO cross validation showed a lower performance than the 10-fold cross validation, but the performance remains high (87.6% accuracy and 0.752 MCC). In testing the model on independent datasets, it achieved an accuracy of 82.2% and an MCC of 0.656. Testing of our model and other state-of-the-art methods on a same dataset showed that our model is better than the others.ConclusionsSequence profiles of log-odds scores of mono- and di-nucleotides were much more powerful features than nucleotide compositions in finding protein-binding regions in RNA sequences. But, a slight performance gain was obtained when using the sequence profiles along with nucleotide compositions. These are preliminary results of ongoing research, but demonstrate the potential of our approach as a powerful predictor of protein-binding regions in RNA. The program and supporting data are available at http://bclab.inha.ac.kr/RBPbinding .

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Predicting Off-Target Binding Profiles With Confidence Using Conformal Prediction.

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Predicting Off-Target Binding Profiles With Confidence Using Conformal Prediction.

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