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MS2Prop: A machine learning model that directly generates de novo predictions of drug-likeness of natural products from unannotated MS/MS spectra

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Voronov, Gennady, Lightheart, Rose, Frandsen, Abe, Bargh, Brian, Haynes, Sarah E., Spencer, Elizabeth, Schoenhardt, Katherine E., Davidson, Christina +9 more·2022·bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Abstract

Mass spectrometry (MS) is a fundamental analytical tool for the study of complex molecular mixtures and in natural products drug discovery and metabolomics specifically, due to its high sensitivity, specificity, and throughput. A major challenge, however, is the lack of structurally annotated mass spectra for these applications. This deficiency is particularly acute for analyses conducted on extracts or fractions that are largely chemically undefined. This work describes the use of mass spectral data in a fundamentally different manner than structure determination; to predict properties or activities of structurally unknown compounds without the need for defined or deduced chemical structure using a machine learning (ML) model, MS2Prop. The model’s predictive accuracy and scalability is benchmarked against commonly used methods and its performance demonstrated in a natural products drug discovery setting. A new cheminformatic subdiscipline, quantitative spectra-activity relationships (QSpAR), using spectra rather than chemical structure as input, is proposed to describe this approach and to distinguish it from structure based quantitative methods.

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Voronov, G., Lightheart, R., Frandsen, A., Bargh, B., Haynes, S. E., Spencer, E., Schoenhardt, K. E., Davidson, C., Schaum, A., Macherla, V. R., DeBloois, E., Healey, D., Kind, T., Dorrestein, P., Colluru, V., Butler, T., & Yu, M. S.
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University of California San Diego (US)
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Butler, Thomas
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bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
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openRxiv
Published
2022-10-10
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18
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64
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2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 6
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bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
Keywords
natural products, structure-activity relationship, natural product drug discovery, metabolomics, machine learning models

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