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Low Data Drug Discovery with One-Shot Learning

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Altae-Tran, Han, Ramsundar, Bharath, Pappu, Aneesh S., Pande, Vijay·2017·ACS Central Science

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Recent advances in machine learning have made significant contributions to drug discovery. Deep neural networks in particular have been demonstrated to provide significant boosts in predictive power when inferring the properties and activities of small-molecule compounds (Ma, J. et al. J. Chem. Inf. MODEL: 2015, 55, 263-274). However, the applicability of these techniques has been limited by the requirement for large amounts of training data. In this work, we demonstrate how one-shot learning can be used to significantly lower the amounts of data required to make meaningful predictions in drug discovery applications. We introduce a new architecture, the iterative refinement long short-term memory, that, when combined with graph convolutional neural networks, significantly improves learning of meaningful distance metrics over small-molecules. We open source all models introduced in this work as part of DeepChem, an open-source framework for deep-learning in drug discovery (Ramsundar, B. deepchem.io. https://github.com/deepchem/deepchem, 2016).

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Authors
Altae-Tran, H., Ramsundar, B., Pappu, A. S., & Pande, V.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Stanford University (US)
Corresponding author
Pande, Vijay
Venue
ACS Central Science
Published
2017-04-03
Volume
3
Issue
4
Pages
283-293
ISSN
  • 2374-7943 (ISSN-L)
  • 2374-7951
OpenAlex
W2565684601
Cited by
799
References
27
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51.44
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journal article
Language
en
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  • ACS Central Science (publishedVersion, other-oa)
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  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Hertz Foundation
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
Keywords
one-shot learning, drug discovery, graph convolutional networks, distance measures, DeepChem

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