Repurposed High-Throughput Images Enable Biological Activity Prediction For Drug Discovery

Jaak Simm, Günter Klambauer, Adam Arany, Marvin Steijaer, Jörg Wegner, Emmanuel Gustin, Vladimir Chupakhin, Yolanda T. Chong, Jorge Vialard, Peter Buijnsters, Ingrid Velter, Alexander Vapirev, Shantanu Singh, Anne Carpenter, Roel Wuyts, Sepp Hochreiter, Yves Moreau, Hugo Ceulemans

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Abstract

We repurpose a High-Throughput (cell) Imaging (HTI) screen of a glucocorticoid receptor assay to predict target protein activity in multiple other seemingly unrelated assays. In two ongoing drug discovery projects, our repurposing approach increased hit rates by 60- to 250-fold over that of the primary project assays while increasing the chemical structure diversity of the hits. Our results suggest that data from available HTI screens are a rich source of information that can be reused to empower drug discovery efforts.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Publication series

NamebioRxiv
ISSN (Print)2692-8205

Fields of science

  • 303 Health Sciences
  • 304 Medical Biotechnology
  • 304003 Genetic engineering
  • 305 Other Human Medicine, Health Sciences
  • 101004 Biomathematics
  • 101018 Statistics
  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102001 Artificial intelligence
  • 102004 Bioinformatics
  • 102010 Database systems
  • 102015 Information systems
  • 102019 Machine learning
  • 106023 Molecular biology
  • 106002 Biochemistry
  • 106005 Bioinformatics
  • 106007 Biostatistics
  • 106041 Structural biology
  • 301 Medical-Theoretical Sciences, Pharmacy
  • 302 Clinical Medicine

JKU Focus areas

  • Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
  • Nano-, Bio- and Polymer-Systems: From Structure to Function
  • Medical Sciences (in general)
  • Health System Research
  • Clinical Research on Aging

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