INTRODUCTION: The use of computational tools in the early stages of drug development has increased in recent decades. Machine learning (ML) approaches have been of special interest, since they can be applied in several steps of the drug discovery met...
Systems-biology inspired identification of drug targets and machine learning-based screening of small molecules which modulate their activity have the potential to revolutionize modern drug discovery by complementing conventional methods. To utilize ...
Liver X receptor (LXR) α and β are cholesterol sensors; they respond to excess cholesterol and stimulate reverse cholesterol transport. Activating LXRs represents a promising therapeutic option for dyslipidemia. However, activating LXRα may cause unw...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Jan 1, 2015
A major challenge in computational biology is to find simple representations of high-dimensional data that best reveal the underlying structure. In this work, we present an intuitive and easy-to-implement method based on ranked neighborhood compariso...
Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening
Jan 1, 2015
Among the chemometric tools used in rational drug design, we find artificial neural network methods (ANNs), a statistical learning algorithm similar to the human brain, to be quite powerful. Some ANN applications use biological and molecular data of ...
SAR and QSAR in environmental research
Jan 1, 2015
Histone deacetylases 8 (HDAC8) is an enzyme repressing the transcription of various genes including tumour suppressor gene and has already become a target of human cancer treatment. In an effort to facilitate the discovery of HDAC8 inhibitors, two qu...
The assessment of acute toxicity is one of the most important stages to ensure the safety of chemicals with potential applications in pharmaceutical sciences, biomedical research, or any other industrial branch. A huge and indiscriminate number of to...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2015
Advancement of science and technology has prompted researchers to develop new intelligent systems that can solve a variety of problems such as pattern recognition, prediction, and optimization. The ability of the human brain to learn in a fashion tha...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2015
UNLABELLED: In biology and chemistry, a key goal is to discover novel compounds affording potent biological activity or chemical properties. This could be achieved through a chemical intuition-driven trial-and-error process or via data-driven predict...
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