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Pac Symp Biocomput. 2022;27:187-198.

Improving QSAR Modeling for Predictive Toxicology using Publicly Aggregated Semantic Graph Data and Graph Neural Networks.

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing

Joseph D Romano, Yun Hao, Jason H Moore

Affiliations

  1. Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States.

PMID: 34890148 PMCID: PMC8714189

Abstract

Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) modeling is a common computational technique for predicting chemical toxicity, but a lack of new methodological innovations has impeded QSAR performance on many tasks. We show that contemporary QSAR modeling for predictive toxicology can be substantially improved by incorporating semantic graph data aggregated from open-access public databases, and analyzing those data in the context of graph neural networks (GNNs). Furthermore, we introspect the GNNs to demonstrate how they can lead to more interpretable applications of QSAR, and use ablation analysis to explore the contribution of different data elements to the final models' performance.

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