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New Insights into Machine Learning in Chemistry, Biochemical Engineering, and Pharmacy

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Computational and Theoretical Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 4505

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1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
2. Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Interests: biomedical informatics; machine learning; biomedical image processing; clinical decision support; medical decision-making

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Interests: data science; machine learning; image processing; natural language processing; clinical decision support; medical decision-making

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in machine learning have sparked enthusiasm for applications in chemistry and allied disciplines such as biochemical engineering and pharmacy. There are numerous opportunities for machine learning to support the chemical sciences, but it is important to distinguish between advances in current practice and potential future benefits of these technologies. Scientists, engineers, and clinicians need to know both how they can leverage machine learning in its present state and what the prospects are for future utility in chemistry and allied disciplines.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present recent advances in machine learning applications in the fields of chemistry, biochemical engineering, and pharmacy. Reviews, full papers, and short communications, from methodological advances to healthcare implications of current trends in machine learning applied to chemistry and allied disciplines, are all welcome. Suggested topics are listed below, but submissions on other topics pertaining to the current or future roles of machine learning in the chemical sciences are also encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Mia K. Markey
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Dr. Yao Zhang
Assistant Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Computer-aided synthesis planning
  • Drug design and drug discovery
  • Catalyst design and catalyst discovery
  • Optimization of process operations
  • Fault diagnosis models
  • Identification of candidates for clinical trials
  • Personalization of medication therapy
  • Prediction of adverse drug events

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Prediction of Blood-Brain Barrier Penetration (BBBP) Based on Molecular Descriptors of the Free-Form and In-Blood-Form Datasets
by Hiroshi Sakiyama, Motohisa Fukuda and Takashi Okuno
Molecules 2021, 26(24), 7428; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/molecules26247428 - 07 Dec 2021
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Abstract
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) controls the entry of chemicals from the blood to the brain. Since brain drugs need to penetrate the BBB, rapid and reliable prediction of BBB penetration (BBBP) is helpful for drug development. In this study, free-form and in-blood-form datasets [...] Read more.
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) controls the entry of chemicals from the blood to the brain. Since brain drugs need to penetrate the BBB, rapid and reliable prediction of BBB penetration (BBBP) is helpful for drug development. In this study, free-form and in-blood-form datasets were prepared by modifying the original BBBP dataset, and the effects of the data modification were investigated. For each dataset, molecular descriptors were generated and used for BBBP prediction by machine learning (ML). For ML, the dataset was split into training, validation, and test data by the scaffold split algorithm MoleculeNet used. This creates an unbalanced split and makes the prediction difficult; however, we decided to use that algorithm to evaluate the predictive performance for unknown compounds dissimilar to existing ones. The highest prediction score was obtained by the random forest model using 212 descriptors from the free-form dataset, and this score was higher than the existing best score using the same split algorithm without using any external database. Furthermore, using a deep neural network, a comparable result was obtained with only 11 descriptors from the free-form dataset, and the resulting descriptors suggested the importance of recognizing the glucose-like characteristics in BBBP prediction. Full article
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