Classification Models of HCV NS3 Protease Inhibitors based on Support Vector Machine (SVM).

Classification Models of HCV NS3 Protease Inhibitors based on Support Vector Machine (SVM). Comb Chem High Throughput Screen. 2014 Nov 20; Authors: Wang M, Xuan S, Yan A, Yu C Abstract Inhibition of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) non-structural protein 3 (NS3) serine protease by molecule inhibitors is an attractive strategy for the treatment of hepatitis C. We built four classification models based on a dataset of 413 HCV NS3 protease inhibitors using support vector machine method. The best performing model obtains the best prediction performance for the test set with prediction accuracy, sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP) and Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) of 90.76%, 92.21%, 88.10% and 0.799. The number of rotatable bonds (NRotBond), charge and electronegativity related properties were found to be correlated with the bioactivity of the inhibitors. The ECFP_4 analyses of structural features were performed and it was found that the cyclopropyl with acylsulfonamide group were the unique substructure in the active inhibitors. The method with dataset split by Kohonen's self-organizing map and descriptors select by SVMAttributeEval presented in this study can be employed in virtual screening for discovering novel inhibitors of HCV NS3 protease. PMID: 25410306 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening - Category: Chemistry Authors: Tags: Comb Chem High Throughput Screen Source Type: research