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Abstract #301721

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Activity Number: 194
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract - #301721
Title: Analysis of a Large Structure/Biological Activity Dataset Using Recursive Partitioning, Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithm
Author(s): Ke Zhang*+ and Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver and S. Stanley Young
Companies: North Carolina State University and North Carolina State University and NISS
Address: 3109A, Kings Ct., Raleigh, NC, 27606,
Keywords: recursive partitioning ; simulated annealing ; genetic algorithm ; SAR ; HTS ; drug discovery
Abstract:

Large quantities of structure and biological activity data are quickly accumulated with the development of high-throughput screening (HTS) and combinatorial chemistry. Analysis of structure-activity relationships (SAR) from such large datasets is becoming challenging. We propose a method which implements Recursive Partitioning (RP), Simulated Annealing (SA), and Genetic Algorithm (GA) to produce stochastic RP trees. RP is a statistical method that can identify SAR rules for classes of compounds that are acting through different mechanisms in the same dataset. In the new algorithm a set of structural descriptors is extracted at each splitting node by using SA combined with GA as a stochastic optimization tool. For one dataset, results show that the new method is advantageous in predicting potency based on quantitative SAR model.


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