期刊
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-AIDED MOLECULAR DESIGN
卷 35, 期 10, 页码 1037-1053出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10822-021-00418-1
关键词
Flavivirus; Hepatitis C virus; NS5B; Cheminformatics; Machine learning; Stacking strategy; Feature representation learning
资金
- College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai University
- Chiang Mai University
- Mahidol University
- Kasetsart University Research and Development Institute, KURDI [FF (KU) 11.64]
This study developed a machine learning-based meta-predictor called StackHCV for accurate identification of HCV inhibitors, showing superior performance to existing methods, providing a tool for fast and precise identification of potential drugs against HCV.
Fast and accurate identification of inhibitors with potency against HCV NS5B polymerase is currently a challenging task. As conventional experimental methods is the gold standard method for the design and development of new HCV inhibitors, they often require costly investment of time and resources. In this study, we develop a novel machine learning-based meta-predictor (termed StackHCV) for accurate and large-scale identification of HCV inhibitors. Unlike the existing method, which is based on single-feature-based approach, we first constructed a pool of various baseline models by employing a wide range of heterogeneous molecular fingerprints with five popular machine learning algorithms (k-nearest neighbor, multi-layer perceptron, partial least squares, random forest and support vectors machine). Secondly, we integrated these baseline models in order to develop the final meta-based model by means of the stacking strategy. Extensive benchmarking experiments showed that StackHCV achieved a more accurate and stable performance as compared to its constituent baseline models on the training dataset and also outperformed the existing predictor on the independent test dataset. To facilitate the high-throughput identification of HCV inhibitors, we built a web server that can be freely accessed at . It is expected that StackHCV could be a useful tool for fast and precise identification of potential drugs against HCV NS5B particularly for liver cancer therapy and other clinical applications.
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