Drug Discovery and Development Using AI
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Vishnu Vettrivel discusses the use of AI in drug discovery and development, highlighting the history and processes involved in rational drug discovery, including drug target identification and safety assessment. The document emphasizes the increasing reliance on AI techniques to overcome challenges in the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in improving drug safety and reducing costs. It concludes with a note on the growing number of startups focused on leveraging AI for drug development.
Drug Discovery and Development Using AI
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- 2. Vishnu Vettrivel, Wisecube AI Drug Discovery and Development using AI #UnifiedDataAnalytics #SparkAISummit
- 3. About me • Vishnu Vettrivel - vishnu@wisecube.ai • Data Science/AI platform Architect • NOT a Molecular Biologist or a Medicinal Chemist ! • Will be talking about things learnt mostly on the job • Have been working with a Molecular biologist in a Biotech research firm to help accelerate drug discovery using Machine learning
- 4. Agenda • History – Nature as Source – Recent efforts • Rational drug discovery – Drug targeting – Screening – Drug Discovery Cycle • Economics ¡ Computer-aided Drug Design ¡ Molecular Representation ¡ Drug safety assessment ¡ Demo ¡ Tools and DBs ¡ Resources ¡ Summary
- 6. Ancient methods: Nature as a source • Search for Drugs not new: – Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda both several thousand years old • Many compounds now being studied – Aspirin’s chemical forefather known to Hippocrates – Even inoculation at least 2000 years old – But also resulted in many ineffective drugs source: https://amhistory.si.edu/polio/virusvaccine/history.htm
- 7. More recent efforts • In 1796, Jenner finds first vaccine: cowpox prevents smallpox • 1 century later, Pasteur makes vaccines against anthrax and rabies • Sulfonamides developed for antibacterial purposes in 1930s • Penicillin: the “miracle drug” • 2nd half of 20th century: use of modern chemical techniques to create explosion of medicines
- 8. Rational drug discovery PROCESS OF FINDING NEW MEDICATIONS BASED ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF A BIOLOGICAL TARGET. MOST COMMONLY AN ORGANIC SMALL MOLECULE THAT ACTIVATES OR INHIBITS THE FUNCTION OF A PROTEIN INVOLVES THE DESIGN OF MOLECULES THAT ARE COMPLEMENTARY IN SHAPE AND CHARGE TO THE BIOMOLECULAR TARGET
- 9. Drug target identification • Different approaches to look for drug targets – Phenotypic screening – gene association studies – chemo proteomics – Transgenetic organisms – Imaging – Biomarkers Source: https://www.roche.com/research_and_development/drawn_to_science/target_identification.htm
- 11. Screening • High Throughput Screening – Implemented in 1990s, still going strong – Allows scientists to test 1000’s of potential targets – Library size is around 1 million compounds – Single screen program cost ~$75,000 – Estimated that only 4 small molecules with roots in combinatorial chemistry made it to clinical development by 2001 – Can make library even bigger if you spend more, but can’t get comprehensive coverage • Similarity paradox – Slight change can mean difference between active and inactive
- 12. Hit to lead optimization source: http://www.sbw.fi/lead-optimization/
- 13. Drug discovery cycle Involves the identification of screening hits using medicinal chemistry and optimization of those hits to increase: – Affinity – Selectivity (to reduce the potential of side effects), – Efficacy/potency – Druglikeness Photo by Boghog / CC BY-SA 4.0
- 14. economics source: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd3681 Eroom’s Law: Opposite of Moore’s Law – Signals worrying trends in number and cost of Drugs to Market for the Pharma industry
- 18. 1-D Descriptors • Molecular properties often used for rough classifications – molecular weight, solubility, charge, number of rotatable bonds, atom types, topological polar surface area etc. • Molecular properties like partition coefficient, or logP, which measures the ratio of solubilities in two different substances. • The Lipinski rule of 5 is a simple rule of thumb that is often used to pre-filter drug candidates Source: chemical Reactivity, Drug-Likeness and Structure Activity/Property Relationship Studies of 2,1,3-Benzoxadiazole Derivatives as Anti-Cancer Activity
- 19. 2-D Descriptors • A common way of mapping variably structures molecules into a fixed-size descriptor vector is “fingerprinting” • circular fingerprints are in more widespread use today. • A typical size of the bit vector is 1024 • The similarity between two molecules can be estimated using the Tanimoto coefficient • One standard implementation are extended circular fingerprints (termed ECFPx,with a number x designating the maximum diameter; e,g, ECFP4 for a radius of 2 bonds)
- 20. qsar • Predictive statistical models correlating one or more piece of response data about chemicals • Statistical tools, including regression and classification-based strategies, are used to analyze the response and chemical data and their relationship • Have been part of scientific study for many years. As early as 1863, Cros found that the toxicity of alcohols increased with decreasing aqueous solubility • Machine learning tools are also very effective in developing predictive models, particularly when handling high-dimensional and complex chemical data showing a nonlinear relationship with the responses of the chemicals
- 21. SMILE string • SMILES (“Simplified molecular-input line-entry system”) • Represents molecules in the form of ASCII character strings • Several equivalent ways to write the same compound – Workaround is to use the canonical version of SMILE • SMILES are reasonably human-readable
- 22. Neural fingerprints • Hash function can be replaced by a neural network – Final fingerprint vector is the sum over a number of atom-wise softmax operations – Similar to the pooling operation in standard neural networks – Can be more smooth than predefined circular fingerprints • Auto-encoders are also used to find compact latent representations – converts discrete representations of molecules to and from a multidimensional continuous representation
- 23. Drug safety assessment • According to Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) the three main causes of failures in Phase III trials: – Efficacy (or rather lack thereof) — i.e., failure to meet the primary efficacy endpoint – Safety (or lack thereof) — i.e., unexpected adverse or serious adverse events – Commercial / financial — i.e., failure to demonstrate value compared to existing therapy • According to another study by Yale School of Medicine – 71 of the 222 drugs approved in the first decade of the millennium were withdrawn – Took a median of 4.2 years after the drugs were approved for these safety concerns to come to light – Drugs ushered through the FDA's accelerated approval process were among those that had higher rates of safety interventions
- 24. Tox21 challenge • Challenge was designed to help scientists understand the potential of the chemicals and compounds being tested • The goal was to "crowdsource" data analysis by independent researchers to reveal how well they can predict compounds' interference in biochemical pathways using only chemical structure data. • The computational models produced from the challenge would become decision- making tools for government agencies • NCATS provided assay activity data and chemical structures on the Tox21 collection of ~10,000 compounds (Tox21 10K).
- 25. Deeptox • Normalizes the chemical representations of the compounds • Computes a large number of chemical descriptors that are used as input to machine learning methods • Trains models, evaluates them, and combines the best of them to ensembles • Predicts the toxicity of new compounds • Had the highest performance of all computational methods • Outperformed naive Bayes, SVM, and random forests
- 26. Multi-task learning • They were able to apply multi- task learning in the Tox21 challenge because most of the compounds were labeled for several tasks • Multi-task learning has been shown to enhance the performance of DNNs when predicting biological activities at the protein level • Since the twelve different tasks of the Tox21 challenge data were highly correlated, they implemented multi-task learning in the DeepTox pipeline. •
- 27. Associations to toxicophores • The histogram (A) shows the fraction of neurons in a layer that yield significant correlations to a toxicophore. With an increasing level of the layer, the number of neurons with significant correlation decreases. • The histogram shows the number of neurons in a layer that exceed a correlation threshold of 0.6 to their best correlated toxicophore. Contrary to (A) the number of neurons increases with the network layer. Note that each layer consisted of the same number of neurons.
- 28. Feature Construction by Deep Learning. • Neurons that have learned to detect the presence of toxicophores. • Each row shows a particular hidden unit in a learned network that correlates highly with a particular known toxicophore feature. • The row shows the three chemical compounds that had the highest activation for that neuron. • Indicated in red is the toxicophore structure from the literature that the neuron correlates with. The first row and the second row are from the first hidden layer, the third row is from a higher-level layer.
- 29. Demo
- 30. Tools and databases • Rdkit collection of cheminformatics and machine- learning software written in C++ and Python. • DeepChem is an integrated python library for chemistry and drug discovery; it comes with a collection of implementations for many deep learning based algorithms. • Chembl is a public database containing millions of bioactive molecules and assay results. The data has been manually transcribed and curated from publications. Chembl is an invaluable source, but has its share of errors — e.g., sometimes affinities are off by exactly 3 or 6 orders of magnitude due to wrongly transcribed units (micromols instead of nanomols). • PDBbind is another frequently used database, which contains protein-ligand co-crystal structures together with binding affinity values. Again, while certainly very valuable, PDBbind has some well-known data problems. • https://www.click2drug.org/ website containing a comprehensive list of computer-aided drug design (CADD) software, databases and web services.
- 31. Resources • Lima, Angélica Nakagawa, Eric Allison Philot, Gustavo Henrique Goulart Trossini, Luis Paulo Barbour Scott, Vinícius Gonçalves Maltarollo, and Kathia Maria Honorio. "Use of Machine Learning Approaches for Novel Drug Discovery." Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery. 2016. Accessed April 23, 2019. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26814169. • Khamis, Mohamed A., Walid Gomaa, and Walaa F. Ahmed. "Machine Learning in Computational Docking." Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. March 2015. Accessed April 23, 2019. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25724101. • Lima, Angélica Nakagawa, Eric Allison Philot, Gustavo Henrique Goulart Trossini, Luis Paulo Barbour Scott, Vinícius Gonçalves Maltarollo, and Kathia Maria Honorio. "Use of Machine Learning Approaches for Novel Drug Discovery." Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery. 2016. Accessed April 23, 2019. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26814169. • Mayr, Andreas, Klambauer, Günter, Thomas, Hochreiter, and Sepp. "DeepTox: Toxicity Prediction Using Deep Learning." Frontiers. December 04, 2015. Accessed April 21, 2019. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2015.00080/full
- 32. Summary • Increasing pressure is forcing Pharma industry to turn to AI based techniques to reduce time, costs and increase success rates of new drugs to market • Drug Safety is one of the top reasons for failures in FDA approvals of new drugs and recalls • AI and Deep learning techniques have show lot of promise compared to traditional techniques in drug discovery and safety • The race for using AI is on and over 100 new startups are now pursuing this line of inquiry
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