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NPClassifier: A Deep Neural Network-Based Structural Classification Tool for Natural Products

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Kim, Hyun Woo, Wang, Mingxun, Leber, Christopher A., Nothias, Louis-Félix, Reher, Raphael, Kang, Kyo Bin, van der Hooft, Justin J. J., Dorrestein, Pieter C. +2 more·2021·Journal of Natural Products

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Computational approaches such as genome and metabolome mining are becoming essential to natural products (NPs) research. Consequently, a need exists for an automated structure-type classification system to handle the massive amounts of data appearing for NP structures. An ideal semantic ontology for the classification of NPs should go beyond the simple presence/absence of chemical substructures, but also include the taxonomy of the producing organism, the nature of the biosynthetic pathway, and/or their biological properties. Thus, a holistic and automatic NP classification framework could have considerable value to comprehensively navigate the relatedness of NPs, and especially so when analyzing large numbers of NPs. Here, we introduce NPClassifier, a deep-learning tool for the automated structural classification of NPs from their counted Morgan fingerprints. NPClassifier is expected to accelerate and enhance NP discovery by linking NP structures to their underlying properties.

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Kim, H. W., Wang, M., Leber, C. A., Nothias, L.-F., Reher, R., Kang, K. B., van der Hooft, J. J. J., Dorrestein, P. C., Gerwick, W. H., & Cottrell, G. W.
Affiliations
  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
  • Sookmyung Women's University (KR)
  • Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6700, The Netherlands
Corresponding author
  • Gerwick, William H.
  • Cottrell, Garrison W.
Venue
Journal of Natural Products
Published
2021-10-18
Volume
84
Issue
11
Pages
2795-2807
ISSN
  • 0163-3864 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-6025
OpenAlex
W3206742358
Cited by
551
References
70
Citations by year
2026: 140 · 2025: 165 · 2024: 115 · 2023: 83 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 18
FWCI
32.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Natural Products (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • ChemRxiv (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF7622)
  • National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2020R1C1C1004046)
  • Netherlands eScience Center (ASDI.2017.030)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01 GM107550)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
Keywords
natural products, structural classification, Morgan fingerprints, deep neural network, natural product discovery, biosynthetic pathway, chemical substructures
MeSH terms
Biological Products, Neural Networks, Computer, Biosynthetic Pathways

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