The combi chem design literature has a lot on this topic. Designing the library
to match a desired profile.
Here is on to get started. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ci980332b
Gillet et al. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1999, 39, 1, 169-177. In this case
optimising the RMS to the desired profile(s).
Stephen
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From: Rocco Moretti <rmoretti...@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Mayer-Bacon <cmaye...@umbc.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Rdkit-discuss] use cases for weighted sampling of a
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The use case for this sort of thing which immediately springs to mind would be
decoy selection. That is, you have a known set of "positives" and want to find
a set of "negatives"/"background" which match those compounds in some set of
properties. DUD-E
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>is probably the most well-known example of this, but it's an approach which
has been tried numerous times on both a formal and an ad hoc basis.
These days where you'll see people attempting it would be with machine
learning, to try to get around the "positive/unlabeled" nature of most small
molecule datasets. That is, often it's easy to get sets of "positive"
compounds from the literature/etc., but trying to get a set of known negative
compounds is sometimes difficult. People attempt to find synthetic negatives by
using matched-property decoy selection from an external compound set. However,
the literature on this is ... less than flattering.
It turns out that even if you're careful, your negative selection method can
still be biased and the ML method can pick up on this (see, e.g.
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) -- this is similar to the tales of image recognition software which uses the
presence of grass to tell if something is a cow or not, or which fails because
all the pictures of one kind of tank were taken on a cloudy day. ML is very
good at picking up such small differences, even if you don't know what those
actually are.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 11:25 AM Christopher Mayer-Bacon <cmaye...@umbc.edu>
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> Hello all,
>
> I?m starting a project that explores the sampling of a large compound
> library. My question is not so much about how to do something, but
> rather the specific use cases for weighted sampling from a compound library.
>
> Given a large compound library and a smaller, reference library, I
> want to take random samples from the large library such that the
> samples resemble the reference library in some way. At the moment I?m
> focused on element composition (% of carbon atoms, % of oxygen atoms,
> etc.), but I?m open to using other features in the future.
>
> I have an idea of how to perform this sampling; my question for this
> community concerns a possible use case. What would be the benefit of
> sampling from a compound library such that the samples resemble
> another library in some way? I can think of a use case for my
> specific research niche (adaptive properties of the canonical amino
> acid alphabet), but I can?t think of another potential use case. I
> know the RDKit community has a wide variety of backgrounds and
> expertise, hence why I wanted to pose this question to you all.
>
> -Chris
>
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> Biological Sciences University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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