Visualization of molecular fingerprints

John R. Owen, Ian T. Nabney, José L. Medina-Franco, Fabian López-Vallejo

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Abstract

A visualization plot of a data set of molecular data is a useful tool for gaining insight into a set of molecules. In chemoinformatics, most visualization plots are of molecular descriptors, and the statistical model most often used to produce a visualization is principal component analysis (PCA). This paper takes PCA, together with four other statistical models (NeuroScale, GTM, LTM, and LTM-LIN), and evaluates their ability to produce clustering in visualizations not of molecular descriptors but of molecular fingerprints. Two different tasks are addressed: understanding structural information (particularly combinatorial libraries) and relating structure to activity. The quality of the visualizations is compared both subjectively (by visual inspection) and objectively (with global distance comparisons and local k-nearest-neighbor predictors). On the data sets used to evaluate clustering by structure, LTM is found to perform significantly better than the other models. In particular, the clusters in LTM visualization space are consistent with the relationships between the core scaffolds that define the combinatorial sublibraries. On the data sets used to evaluate clustering by activity, LTM again gives the best performance but by a smaller margin. The results of this paper demonstrate the value of using both a nonlinear projection map and a Bernoulli noise model for modeling binary data.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1552-1563
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Volume51
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jun 2011

Keywords

  • combinatorial chemistry techniques
  • drug discovery
  • statistical models
  • molecular structure
  • principal component analysis
  • small molecule libraries

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