scholarly journals Combining a QSAR Approach and Structural Analysis to Derive an SAR Map of Lyn Kinase Inhibition

Molecules ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 3271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imane Naboulsi ◽  
Aziz Aboulmouhajir ◽  
Lamfeddal Kouisni ◽  
Faouzi Bekkaoui ◽  
Abdelaziz Yasri

Lyn kinase, a member of the Src family of protein tyrosine kinases, is mainly expressed by various hematopoietic cells, neural and adipose tissues. Abnormal Lyn kinase regulation causes various diseases such as cancers. Thus, Lyn represents, a potential target to develop new antitumor drugs. In the present study, using 176 molecules (123 training set molecules and 53 test set molecules) known by their inhibitory activities (IC50) against Lyn kinase, we constructed predictive models by linking their physico-chemical parameters (descriptors) to their biological activity. The models were derived using two different methods: the generalized linear model (GLM) and the artificial neural network (ANN). The ANN Model provided the best prediction precisions with a Square Correlation coefficient R2 = 0.92 and a Root of the Mean Square Error RMSE = 0.29. It was able to extrapolate to the test set successfully (R2 = 0.91 and RMSE = 0.33). In a second step, we have analyzed the used descriptors within the models as well as the structural features of the molecules in the training set. This analysis resulted in a transparent and informative SAR map that can be very useful for medicinal chemists to design new Lyn kinase inhibitors.

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinliang Yu ◽  
Rimeng Zhan ◽  
Jiyong Deng ◽  
Xianwei Huang

Lubricating additives can improve the lubricant performance of base oil in reducing friction and wear and minimizing loss of energy. It is of great significance to study the relationship between chemical structures and lubrication properties of lubricant additives. This paper reports a quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) model of the maximum nonseizure loads ([Formula: see text]) of 79 lubricant additives by applying artificial neural network (ANN) based on the algorithm of backward propagation of errors. Six molecular descriptors appearing in the multiple linear regression (MLR) model were used as vectors to develop the ANN model. The optimal condition of ANN with network structure of [6-4-1] was obtained by adjusting various parameters by trial-and-error. The root-mean-square (rms) errors from ANN model are [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) for the training set and [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) for the test set, which are superior to the MLR results of [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) for the training set and [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) for the test set. Compared to the existing model for [Formula: see text], our model has better statistical quality. The results indicate that our ANN model can be applied to predict the [Formula: see text] values for lubricant additives.


Author(s):  
B. Elidrissi ◽  
A. Ousaa ◽  
M. Ghamali ◽  
S. Chtita ◽  
M. A. Ajana ◽  
...  

A Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship (QSAR) study was performed to predict HIV-1 integrase inhibition activity (pIC50) of thirty-five 5-hydroxy-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyrimidine-4-carboxamide compounds using the electronic and physico-chemical descriptors computed respectively, with Gaussian 03W and ACD/ChemSketch programs. The structures of all compounds were optimized using the hybrid Density Functional Theory (DFT) at the B3LYP/6-31G(d) level of theory. In both approaches, 28 compounds were assigned as the training set and the rest as the test set. These compounds were analyzed by the principal components analysis (PCA) method, the descendant Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) analyses and the Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The robustness of the obtained models was assessed by leave-many-out cross-validation, and external validation through a test set. This study shows that the MLR has served marginally better to predict pIC50 activity, when compared with the results given by predictions made with a (4-3-1) ANN model.


Author(s):  
Shabnam Hosseinzadeh ◽  
Amir Etemad-Shahidi ◽  
Ali Koosheh

Abstract The accurate prediction of the mean wave overtopping rate at breakwaters is vital to have a safe design. Hence, providing a robust tool as a preliminary estimator can be useful for practitioners. Recently, soft computing tools such as artificial neural network (ANN) have been developed as alternatives to traditional overtopping formulae. The goal of this paper is to assess the capabilities of two kernel-based methods namely Gaussian process regression (GPR) and support vector regression for the prediction of mean wave overtopping rate at sloped breakwaters. An extensive dataset taken from EurOtop (2018) database, including rubble mound structures with permeable core, straight slopes, without berm, and crown wall, was employed to develop the models. Different combinations of the important dimensionless parameters representing structural features and wave conditions were tested based on the sensitivity analysis for developing the models. The obtained results were compared with those of the ANN model and the existing empirical formulae. The modified Taylor diagram was used to compare the models graphically. The results showed the superiority of kernel-based models, especially the GPR model over the ANN model and empirical formulae. In addition, the optimal input combination was introduced based on accuracy and the number of input parameters criteria. Finally, the physical consistencies of developed models were investigated the results, of which demonstrated the reliability of kernel-based models in terms of delivering physics of overtopping phenomenon.


Author(s):  
Geoffroy Chaussonnet ◽  
Sebastian Gepperth ◽  
Simon Holz ◽  
Rainer Koch ◽  
Hans-Jörg Bauer

Abstract A fully connected Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is used to predict the mean spray characteristics of prefilming airblast atomization. The model is trained from the planar prefilmer experiment from the PhD thesis of Gepperth (2020). The output of the ANN model are the Sauter Mean Diameter, the mean droplet axial velocity, the mean ligament length and the mean ligament deformation velocity. The training database contains 322 different operating points. Two types of model input quantities are investigated and compared. First, nine dimensional parameters are used as inputs for the model. Second, nine non-dimensional groups commonly used for liquid atomization are derived from the first set of inputs. The best architecture is determined after testing over 10000 randomly drawn ANN architectures, with up to 10 layers and up to 128 neurons per layer. The striking results is that for both types of model, the best architectures consist of only 3 hidden layer in the shape of a diabolo. This shape recalls the shape of an autoencoder, where the middle layer would be the feature space of reduced dimensionality. It was found that the model with dimensional input quantities always shows a lower test and validation errors than the one with non-dimensional input quantities. In general, the two types of models provide comparable accuracy, better than typical correlations of SMD and droplet velocity. Finally the extrapolation capability of the models was assessed by a training them on a confined domain of parameters and testing them outside this domain.


2012 ◽  
Vol 90 (8) ◽  
pp. 640-651
Author(s):  
Jing Song ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Hui Hu ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Lin Lin ◽  
...  

Quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) studies were performed for the prediction of gas-phase reduced ion mobility constants (K0) of diverse compounds based on three-dimensional (3D) molecular structure representation. The entire set of 159 compounds was divided into a training set of 120 compounds and a test set of 39 compounds according to Kennard and Stones algorithm. Multiple linear regression (MLR) analysis was employed to select the best subset of descriptors and to build linear models, whereas nonlinear models were developed by means of an artificial neural network (ANN). The obtained models with five descriptors involved show good predictive power for the test set: a squared correlation coefficient (R2) of 0.9029 and a standard error of estimation (s) of 0.0549 were achieved by the MLR model, whereas by the ANN model, R2 and s were 0.9292 and 0.496, respectively. The results of this study compare favorably to previously reported prediction methods for the ion mobility constants. In addition, the descriptors used in the models are discussed with respect to the structural features governing the mobility of the compounds.


Author(s):  
Madhukar A. Dabhade ◽  
M. B. Saidutta ◽  
D. V. R. Murthy

Presence of phenol and phenolic compounds in various wastewaters and its harmful effects has led to the use of different treatment methods. Work on biological methods shows the use of different microorganisms and different bioreactors so as to improve the removal efficiency economically. The present work deals with the use of N. hydrocarbonoxydans (NCIM 2386), an actinomycetes, for the degradation of phenol. N. hydrocarbonoxydans was immobilized on GAC and used in a spouted bed contactor for effective contact of microorganisms and the substrate. The contactor performance was studied by varying flow rates, influent concentrations and the solids loading in the contactor. The effect of these variables on phenol degradation was investigated and modeling study was carried out using the artificial neural network (ANN). A feed forward neural network with back propagation was used for the model development. The experiments were planned as per the face centered cube design (FCCD) and used for training of the model, whereas data from four other experimental runs were used for testing and validation of the model. The network was optimized for the number of neurons based on the mean square error. The ANN model with three layers with three input neurons, eight neurons in hidden layers and one output neuron was found to predict effectively the effluent concentration for the given operating conditions in the spouted bed contactor. The mean square error was found to be 9.318e-12 for this ANN model. Also the experimental data was used to develop second order nonlinear empirical model obtained using multiple regression (MR) and the results compared with ANN using correlation coefficient (R2), average absolute error (AAE) and root mean square error (RMSE). Results show that R2, AAE and RMSE values of MR model were 0.9363, 2.085 % and 2.338 % respectively, while in case of ANN model these values were 0.9995, 0.59 % and 1.263 % respectively. This shows that ANN model prediction is better than multiple regression model prediction.


2013 ◽  
Vol 641-642 ◽  
pp. 460-463
Author(s):  
Yong Gang Liu ◽  
Xin Tian ◽  
Yue Qiang Jiang ◽  
Gong Bing Li ◽  
Yi Zhou Li

In this study, a three-layer artificial neural network(ANN) model was constructed to predict the detonation pressure of aluminized explosive. Elemental composition and loading density were employed as input descriptors and detonation pressure was used as output. The dataset of 41 aluminized explosives was randomly divided into a training set (30) and a prediction set (11). After optimized by adjusting various parameters, the optimal condition of the neural network was obtained. Simulated with the final optimum neural network [6–9–1], calculated detonation pressures show good agreement with experimental results. It is shown here that ANN is able to produce accurate predictions of the detonation pressure of aluminized explosive.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Nixon Mendez ◽  
Md. Afroz Alam

Background:Quercetin which is a natural occurring flavonoid, exert a direct pro-apoptotic effect on tumor cells by blocking the growth of several cancer cell lines at different phases of the cell cycle. Quercetin derivatives have attracted considerable attention for their cytotoxity against human cancer cell lines. In this study the derivatives of Quercetin were used for docking followed by pharmacophore modeling for studying the 3D features and configurations responsible for biological activity of structurally diverse compounds.Objective:To develop a model which depicts the crucial structural features responsible for anti-lung cancer activities.Method:A robust pharmacophore developed for the receptor have been analyzed to identify potential areas of selectivity in the hyperspace of 3D pharmacophores that may lead to the discovery of anti-lung cancer drug or such compounds which could serve as templates for the design of new molecules as potential anti lung cancer agents.Results:The generated best pharmacophore hypothesis yielded a statistically significant 3D-QSAR model, with a correlation coefficient of R2= 0.86 for training set and R2= 0.76 for the test set molecules. The Cross validation regression coefficient is Q2= 0.84 for training set and Q2= 0.5 for test set molecules.Conclusion:The R2and Q2reveals that pharmacophore model provide insights into the structural and chemical features of the EGFR inhibitors of Quercetin derivatives that can be used as lead compound for further synthesis as well as for screening other similar novel inhibitors of EGFR.


Author(s):  
Benjamin E. Hargis ◽  
Wesley A. Demirjian ◽  
Matthew W. Powelson ◽  
Stephen L. Canfield

This study proposes using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to train a 6-DOF serial manipulator with a non-spherical wrist to solve the inverse kinematics problem. In this approach, an ANN has been trained to determine the configuration parameters of a serial manipulator that correspond to the position and pose of its end effector. The network was modeled after the AUBO-i5 robot arm, and the experimental results have shown the ability to achieve millimeter accuracy in tool space position with significantly reduced computational time relative to an iterative kinematic solution when applied to a subset of the workspace. Furthermore, a separate investigation was conducted to quantify the relationship between training example density, training set error, and test set error. Testing indicates that, for a given network, sufficient example point density may be approximated by comparing the training set error with test set error. The neural network training was performed using the MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox.


2013 ◽  
Vol 790 ◽  
pp. 673-676
Author(s):  
Yue Qiang Jiang ◽  
Yong Gang Liu ◽  
Xin Tian ◽  
Gong Bing Li

In this study, a three-layer artificial neural network (ANN) model was constructed to predict the detonation velocity of aluminized explosive. Elemental composition and loading density were employed as input descriptors and detonation velocity was used as output. The dataset of 61 aluminized explosives was randomly divided into a training set (49) and a prediction set (12). After optimized by adjusting various parameters, the optimal condition of the neural network was obtained. Simulated with the final optimum neural network [812, calculated detonation velocity show good agreement with experimental results. It is shown that ANN is able to produce accurate predictions of the detonation velocity of aluminized explosive.


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