Extraction and Visualization of Potential Pharmacophore Points Using Support Vector Machines: Application to Ligand-Based Virtual Screening for COX-2 Inhibitors. Franke, L., Byvatov, E., Werz, O., Steinhilber, D., Schneider, P., & Schneider, G. J.~Med.~Chem., 48(22):6997--7004, 2005.
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Support vector machines (SVM) were trained to predict cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) and thrombin inhibitors. The classifiers were obtained using sets of known COX-2 and thrombin inhibitors as "positive examples" and a large collection of screening compounds as "negative examples". Molecules were encoded by topological pharmacophore-point triangles. In retrospective virtual screening, 50-90% of the known active compounds were listed within the first 0.1% of the ranked database. To check the validity of the constructed classifiers, we developed a method for feature extraction and visualization using SVM. As a result, potential pharmacophore points were weighted according to their importance for COX-2 and thrombin inhibition. Known thrombin and COX-2 pharmacophore points were correctly recognized by the machine learning system. In a prospective virtual screening study, several potential COX-2 inhibitors were predicted and tested in a cellular activity assay. A benzimidazole derivative exhibited significant inhibitory activity with an IC50 of 0.2 mu M, which is better than Celecoxib in our assay. It was demonstrated that the SVM machine-learning method can be used in virtual screening and be analyzed in a human-interpretable way that results in a set of rules for designing novel molecules.
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	Abstract = {Support vector machines (SVM) were trained to predict cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) and thrombin inhibitors. The classifiers were obtained using sets of known COX-2 and thrombin inhibitors as "positive examples" and a large collection of screening compounds as "negative examples". Molecules were encoded by topological pharmacophore-point triangles. In retrospective virtual screening, 50-90\% of the known active compounds were listed within the first 0.1\% of the ranked database. To check the validity of the constructed classifiers, we developed a method for feature extraction and visualization using SVM. As a result, potential pharmacophore points were weighted according to their importance for COX-2 and thrombin inhibition. Known thrombin and COX-2 pharmacophore points were correctly recognized by the machine learning system. In a prospective virtual screening study, several potential COX-2 inhibitors were predicted and tested in a cellular activity assay. A benzimidazole derivative exhibited significant inhibitory activity with an IC50 of 0.2 mu M, which is better than Celecoxib in our assay. It was demonstrated that the SVM machine-learning method can be used in virtual screening and be analyzed in a human-interpretable way that results in a set of rules for designing novel molecules.},
	Author = {Franke, L. and Byvatov, E. and Werz, O. and Steinhilber, D. and Schneider, P. and Schneider, G.},
	Date-Added = {2007-12-11 17:01:03 -0500},
	Date-Modified = {2009-03-06 16:35:15 -0500},
	Doi = {10.1021/jm050619h},
	Journal = {J.~Med.~Chem.},
	Keywords = {phamacophore; thrombin; inhibitor},
	Local-Url = {file://localhost/Users/rguha/Documents/articles/jm050619h.pdf},
	Number = {22},
	Pages = {6997--7004},
	Title = {Extraction and Visualization of Potential Pharmacophore Points Using Support Vector Machines: {A}pplication to Ligand-Based Virtual Screening for {COX-2} Inhibitors},
	Volume = {48},
	Year = {2005},
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