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Molecules, Vol. 23, Pages 2955: Prediction of the Formation of Reactive Metabolites by A Novel Classifier Approach Based on Enrichment Factor Optimization (EFO) as Implemented in the VEGA Program (Molecules)
 


The study is aimed at developing linear classifiers to predict the capacity of a given substrate to yield reactive metabolites. While most of the hitherto reported predictive models are based on the occurrence of known structural alerts (e.g., the presence of toxophoric groups), the present study is focused on the generation of predictive models involving linear combinations of physicochemical and stereo-electronic descriptors. The development of these models is carried out by using a novel classification approach based on enrichment factor optimization (EFO) as implemented in the VEGA suite of programs. The study took advantage of metabolic data as collected by manually curated analysis of the primary literature and published in the years 2004–2009. The learning set included 977 substrates among which 138 compounds yielded reactive first-generation metabolites, plus 212 substrates generating reactive metabolites in all generations (i.e., metabolic steps). The results emphasized the possibility of developing satisfactory predictive models especially when focusing on the first-generation reactive metabolites. The extensive comparison of the classifier approach presented here using a set of well-known algorithms implemented in Weka 3.8 revealed that the proposed EFO method compares with the best available approaches and offers two relevant benefits since it involves a limited number of descriptors and provides a score-based probability thus allowing a critical evaluation of the obtained results. The last analyses on non-cheminformatics UCI datasets emphasize the general applicability of the EFO approach, which conveniently performs using both balanced and unbalanced datasets.


 
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