Bayer’s in silico ADMET platform: a journey of machine learning over the past two decades
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Over the past two decades, an in silico absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADMET) platform has been created at Bayer Pharma with the goal to generate models for a variety of pharmacokinetic and physicochemical endpoints in early drug discovery. These tools are accessible to all scientists within the company and can be a useful in assisting with the selection and design of novel leads, as well as the process of lead optimization. Here. we discuss the development of machine-learning (ML) approaches with special emphasis on data, descriptors, and algorithms. We show that high company internal data quality and tailored descriptors, as well as a thorough understanding of the experimental endpoints, are essential to the utility of our models. We discuss the recent impact of deep neural networks and show selected application examples.
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- Authors
- Göller, A. H., Kuhnke, L., Montanari, F., Bonin, A., Schneckener, S., ter Laak, A., Wichard, J., Lobell, M., & Hillisch, A.
- Affiliations
- Bayer (Germany) (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Hillisch, Alexander
- ORCID
- Venue
- Drug Discovery Today
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-09
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1702-1709
- ISSN
- 1359-6446 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3041286284
- Cited by
- 215
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 56 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 2.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Drug Discovery Today (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Pharmacology › Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
- Keywords
- machine learning, pharmacokinetic prediction, physicochemical properties, early drug discovery, deep neural network, molecular descriptors, lead optimization
- MeSH terms
- Machine Learning, Animals, Computer Simulation, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Humans, Intestinal Absorption, Models, Theoretical, Pharmacokinetics
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