PMID- 35936431 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220809 IS - 2470-1343 (Electronic) IS - 2470-1343 (Linking) VI - 7 IP - 30 DP - 2022 Aug 2 TI - Implications of Additivity and Nonadditivity for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models in Drug Design. PG - 26573-26581 LID - 10.1021/acsomega.2c02738 [doi] AB - Matched molecular pairs (MMPs) are nowadays a commonly applied concept in drug design. They are used in many computational tools for structure-activity relationship analysis, biological activity prediction, or optimization of physicochemical properties. However, until now it has not been shown in a rigorous way that MMPs, that is, changing only one substituent between two molecules, can be predicted with higher accuracy and precision in contrast to any other chemical compound pair. It is expected that any model should be able to predict such a defined change with high accuracy and reasonable precision. In this study, we examine the predictability of four classical properties relevant for drug design ranging from simple physicochemical parameters (log D and solubility) to more complex cell-based ones (permeability and clearance), using different data sets and machine learning algorithms. Our study confirms that additive data are the easiest to predict, which highlights the importance of recognition of nonadditivity events and the challenging complexity of predicting properties in case of scaffold hopping. Despite deep learning being well suited to model nonlinear events, these methods do not seem to be an exception of this observation. Though they are in general performing better than classical machine learning methods, this leaves the field with a still standing challenge. CI - (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. FAU - Kwapien, Karolina AU - Kwapien K AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2003-0915 AD - Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg 431 83, Sweden. FAU - Nittinger, Eva AU - Nittinger E AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7231-7996 AD - Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg 431 83, Sweden. FAU - He, Jiazhen AU - He J AD - Molecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg 431 83, Sweden. FAU - Margreitter, Christian AU - Margreitter C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5473-6318 AD - Molecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg 431 83, Sweden. FAU - Voronov, Alexey AU - Voronov A AD - Molecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg 431 83, Sweden. FAU - Tyrchan, Christian AU - Tyrchan C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6470-984X AD - Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg 431 83, Sweden. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220719 PL - United States TA - ACS Omega JT - ACS omega JID - 101691658 PMC - PMC9352238 COIS- The authors declare no competing financial interest. EDAT- 2022/08/09 06:00 MHDA- 2022/08/09 06:01 PMCR- 2022/07/19 CRDT- 2022/08/08 03:47 PHST- 2022/05/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/07/08 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/08/08 03:47 [entrez] PHST- 2022/08/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/08/09 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/07/19 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/acsomega.2c02738 [doi] PST - epublish SO - ACS Omega. 2022 Jul 19;7(30):26573-26581. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.2c02738. eCollection 2022 Aug 2.