A machine learning model trained on a high-throughput antibacterial screen increases the hit rate of drug discovery.

Screening for novel antibacterial compounds in small molecule libraries has a low success rate. We applied machine learning (ML)-based virtual screening for antibacterial activity and evaluated its predictive power by experimental validation. We first binarized 29,537 compounds according to their growth inhibitory activity (hit rate 0.

Deep learning-driven prediction of drug mechanism of action from large-scale chemical-genetic interaction profiles.

Motivation: Chemical-genetic interaction profiling is a genetic approach that quantifies the susceptibility of a set of mutants depleted in specific gene product(s) to a set of chemical compounds. With the recent advances in artificial intelligence, chemical-genetic interaction profiles (CGIPs) can be leveraged to predict mechanism of action of compounds. This can be achieved by using machine learning, where the data from a CGIP is fed into the machine learning platform along with the chemical descriptors to develop a chemogenetically trained model.