Title
Triomphe: Transcriptome-Based Inference And Generation Of Molecules With Desired Phenotypes By Machine Learning
Abstract
One of the most challenging tasks in the drug-discovery process is the efficient identification of small molecules with desired phenotypes. In this study, we propose a novel computational method for omics-based de novo drug design, which we call TRIOMPHE (transcriptome-based inference and generation of molecules with desired phenotypes). We investigated the correlation between chemically induced transcriptome profiles (reflecting cellular responses to compound treatment) and genetically perturbed transcriptome profiles (reflecting cellular responses to gene knock-down or gene overexpression of target proteins) in terms of ligand-target interactions. Subsequently, we developed novel machine learning methods to generate the chemical structures of new molecules with desired transcriptome profiles in the framework of a variational autoencoder. The use of desired transcriptome profiles enables the automatic design of molecules that are likely to have bioactivities for target proteins of interest. We showed that our methods can generate chemically valid molecules that are likely to have biological activities on 10 target proteins; moreover, they can outperform previous methods that had the same objective. Our omics-based structure generator is expected to be useful for the de novo design of drugs for a variety of target proteins.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00967
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
61
9
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1549-9596
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kazuma Kaitoh100.68
Yoshihiro Yamanishi2126883.44