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Predicting Mouse Liver Microsomal Stability with “Pruned” Machine Learning Models and Public Data

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Perryman, Alexander L., Stratton, Thomas P., Ekins, Sean, Freundlich, Joel S.·2016·Pharmaceutical Research

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Purpose Mouse efficacy studies are a critical hurdle to advance translational research of potential therapeutic compounds for many diseases. Although mouse liver microsomal (MLM) stability studies are not a perfect surrogate for in vivo studies of metabolic clearance, they are the initial model system used to assess metabolic stability. Consequently, we explored the development of machine learning models that can enhance the probability of identifying compounds possessing MLM stability.Methods Published assays on MLM half-life values were identified in PubChem, reformatted, and curated to create a training set with 894 unique small molecules. These data were used to construct machine learning models assessed with internal cross-validation, external tests with a published set of antitubercular compounds, and independent validation with an additional diverse set of 571 compounds (PubChem data on percent metabolism).Results "Pruning" out the moderately unstable / moderately stable compounds from the training set produced models with superior predictive power. Bayesian models displayed the best predictive power for identifying compounds with a half-life ≥1 h.Conclusions Our results suggest the pruning strategy may be of general benefit to improve test set enrichment and provide machine learning models with enhanced predictive value for the MLM stability of small organic molecules. This study represents the most exhaustive study to date of using machine learning approaches with MLM data from public sources.

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Authors
Perryman, A. L., Stratton, T. P., Ekins, S., & Freundlich, J. S.
Affiliations
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
  • Collaborative Drug Discovery (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Freundlich, Joel S.
Venue
Pharmaceutical Research
Published
2015-09-28
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
433-449
ISSN
  • 0724-8741 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-904X
OpenAlex
W2179414561
Cited by
50
References
92
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 6
FWCI
4.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Pharmaceutical Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (R44TR000942)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U19AI109713)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Pharmacology › Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
Keywords
drug metabolism prediction, half-life prediction, small molecules, data pruning, Bayesian model, antitubercular agents, PubChem, metabolic stability
MeSH terms
Machine Learning, Animals, Bayes Theorem, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Microsomes, Liver, Models, Biological, Principal Component Analysis, Mice, Small Molecule Libraries, Drug Discovery, Databases, Pharmaceutical

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