Mining High-Throughput Screening Data of Combinatorial Libraries:  Development of a Filter to Distinguish Hits from Nonhits

Andreas Teckentrup, Hans Briem, and Johann Gasteiger*
Department of Lead Discovery, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Birkendorfer Strasse 65, D-88397 Biberach, Germany, and Computer-Chemie-Centrum, Institute for Organic Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nägelsbachstrasse 25, D-91052 Erlangen, Germany
J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 2004, 44 (2), pp 626–634
DOI: 10.1021/ci034223v
Publication Date (Web): February 28, 2004
Copyright © 2004 American Chemical Society

Abstract

Kohonen neural networks generate projections of large data sets defined in high-dimensional space. The resulting self-organizing maps can be used in many applications in the drug discovery process, such as to analyze combinatorial libraries for their similarity or diversity and to select descriptors for structure−activity relationships. The ability to investigate thousands of compounds in parallel also allows one to conduct a study based on single-dose experiments of high-throughput screening campaigns, which are known to have a greater uncertainty than IC50 or Ki values. This is demonstrated here for a data set of 5513 compounds from one combinatorial library. Furthermore, a method was developed that uses self-organizing maps not only as an indicator of structure−activity relationships, but as the basis of a classification system allowing predictive modeling of combinatorial libraries.

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  • Received October 16, 2003

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