Screening for New Antidepressant Leads of Multiple Activities by Support Vector Machines

Zsolt Lepp, Takashi Kinoshita, and Hiroshi Chuman*
Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima, Shomachi, Tokushima 770-8505, Japan
J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2006, 46 (1), pp 158–167
DOI: 10.1021/ci050301y
Publication Date (Web): November 12, 2005
Copyright © 2006 American Chemical Society
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Abstract

Virtual screening was carried out against 21 biological targets related to depression by support vector machine classification using the same atom-type descriptors. The models were effective as 0.2−0.8 of theoretical enrichments of the external test data sets could be achieved, depending on the target. The set of predicted active molecules had large diversity and contained examples with high dissimilarity to the compounds of training sets. Filtering the database of known antidepressants by all 21 models it was found that on average compounds were classified active for 2.3 targets.

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  • Published In Issue January 23, 2006
  • Received July 25, 2005

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