MLP-Based Regression Prediction Model For Compound Bioactivity

Yongfei Qin; Chao Li; Xia Shi; Weigang Wang

doi:10.3389/fbioe.2022.946329

MLP-Based Regression Prediction Model For Compound Bioactivity

Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2022 Jul 13:10:946329. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.946329. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yongfei Qin¹, Chao Li¹, Xia Shi¹, Weigang Wang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China.
² Collaborative Innovation Center of Statistical Data Engineering, Technology and Application, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China.

Abstract

The development of breast cancer is closely linked to the estrogen receptor ERα, which is also considered to be an important target for the treatment of breast cancer. Therefore, compounds that can antagonize ERα activity may be drug candidates for the treatment of breast cancer. In drug development, to save manpower and resources, potential active compounds are often screened by establishing compound activity prediction model. For the 1974 compounds collected, the top 20 molecular descriptors that significantly affected the biological activity were screened using LASSO regression models combined with 10-fold cross-validation method. Further, a regression prediction model based on the MLP fully connected neural network was constructed to predict the bioactivity values of 50 new compounds. To measure the validity of the model, the model loss term was specified as the mean squared error (MSE). The results showed that the MLP-based regression prediction model had a loss value of 0.0146 on the validation set. This model is therefore well trained and the prediction strategy used is valid. The methods developed by this paper may provide a reference for the development of anti-breast cancer drugs.

Keywords: LASSO regression; MLP; biological activity; breast cancer drug candidates; neural.