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Andreana Rosnik, PhD
Atomwise
Atomwise Co-Authors: Kate A. Stafford, Brandon M. Anderson, and Henry van den Bedem
Title:Synthetic benchmarks to evaluate attribution for structure-based graph convolutional
networks in drug discovery
Division: Computers in Chemistry
Abstract
In drug discovery, deep learning (DL) methods can quickly identify potent and active compounds from vast on-demand chemical libraries. Understanding how structure-based DL models attribute features of molecular recognition to activity can cast light on sensitivity to receptor-ligand interactions, biases towards particular functional groups or scaffolds, target selectivity, and, importantly, help medicinal chemists advance compounds in lead optimization. However, despite a rapidly increasing use and need for deep learning in drug discovery, structure-based model interpretability remains a formidable challenge, in part owing to a dearth of reliable, ‘ground-truth’ benchmark sets.
Here, we introduce a set of synthetic chemical benchmarks consisting of computable features such as intermolecular hydrogen bonds in docked protein-ligand complexes. We trained AtomNet® structure-based graph convolutional networks for classification and regression on the synthetic benchmarks. We visualize edge weights for models with and without attention on representative molecules. An attention-based information entropy attribution measure correctly identifies hydrogen-bonding heavy atoms. Our models very accurately predict the number of canonical hydrogen-bonds in a protein-ligand complex. In addition, we explore other chemical benchmarks of physically relevant protein-ligand interactions, and we demonstrate applications to protein selectivity prediction in targets such as kinases and G-protein-coupled receptors. The benchmarks will help evaluate and improve our models, and guide structural optimization in drug discovery.
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