基于启发式方法和支持向量机方法预测有机物的热导率

构建147个有机物分子结构与其热导率值之间的定量结构-性质关系(QSPR)模型, 探讨影响有机物热导率的结构因素. 以147个化合物作为样本集, 随机选择118个作为训练集, 29个作为测试集. 应用CODESSA软件计算了组成、拓扑、几何、静电和量子化学等描述符, 通过启发式方法(HM)筛选得到5个结构参数并建立线性回归模型; 用所选5个结构参数作为支持向量机(SVM)的输入, 建立非线性的支持向量机回归模型. 预测结果表明: 支持向量机回归模型的性能(复相关系数R²=0.9240)虽略低于启发式回归模型的性能(R²=0.9267), 但是支持向量机方法预测性能(R²=0.9682)高于启发式方法的预测性能(R²=0.9574), 对于QSPR模型来说, 预测性能更重要. 因此, 总体来说支持向量机方法优于启发式方法. 支持向量机方法和启发式方法的提出为工程上提供了一种根据分子结构预测有机物热导率的新方法.     

Prediction of drug solubility from molecular structure using a drug-like training set

Using a training set of 191 drug-like compounds extracted from the AQUASOL database a quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) study was conducted employing a set of simple structural and physicochemical properties to predict aqueous solubility. The resultant regression model comprised five parameters (ClogP, molecular weight, indicator variable for aliphatic amine groups, number of rotatable bonds and number of aromatic rings) and demonstrated acceptable statistics (r ² = 0.87, s = 0.51, F = 243.6, n = 191). The model was applied to two test sets consisting of a drug-like set of compounds (r ² = 0.80, s = 0.68, n = 174) and a set of agrochemicals (r ² = 0.88, s = 0.65, n = 200). Using the established general solubility equation (GSE) on the training and drug-like test set gave poorer results than the current study. The agrochemical test set was predicted with equal accuracy using the GSE and the QSPR equation. The results of this study suggest that increasing molecular size, rigidity and lipophilicity decrease solubility whereas increasing conformational flexibility and the presence of a non-conjugated amine group increase the solubility of drug-like compounds. Indeed, the proposed structural parameters make physical sense and provide simple guidelines for modifying solubility during lead optimisation.