融合多种分子表示,提升药物活性预测准确率
Rep3Net: An Approach Exploiting Multimodal Representation for Molecular Bioactivity Prediction
- 结合分子描述符、图结构特征和SMILES语义嵌入
- 在PARP1数据集上误差比基线降低显著
- 适合早期药物筛选与可扩展虚拟筛选
准确预测化合物效力可加速早期药物发现,优先筛选实验候选。然而,现有定量构效关系(QSAR)方法受限于分子表示方式:手工描述符捕捉全局属性但忽略局部拓扑,图神经网络编码结构却常缺乏更广化学背景,而基于SMILES的语言模型虽能学习上下文模式,却很少与结构特征结合。为此,我们提出Rep3Net,一种统一的多模态架构,融合RDKit分子描述符、残差图卷积主干提取的图特征以及ChemBERTa SMILES嵌入。在经筛选的ChEMBL子集上对人PARP1进行五折交叉验证,Rep3Net达到均方误差0.83±0.06,均方根误差0.91±0.03,决定系数R²=0.43±0.01,皮尔逊与斯皮尔曼相关系数分别为0.66±0.01和0.67±0.01,显著优于多个强基线GNN模型。此外,由于采用单层GCN主干和并行冻结编码器,Rep3Net实现良好的延迟-参数权衡。消融实验表明,图拓扑、ChemBERTa语义与手工描述符各贡献互补信息,全融合带来最大误差下降。结果表明,多模态表示融合可提升PARP1效力预测性能,并为早期药物发现中的虚拟筛选提供可扩展框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate prediction of compound potency accelerates early-stage drug discovery by prioritizing candidates for experimental testing. However, many Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) approaches for this prediction are constrained by their choice of molecular representation: handcrafted descriptors capture global properties but miss local topology, graph neural networks encode structure but often lack broader chemical context, and SMILES-based language models provide contextual patterns learned from large corpora but are seldom combined with structural features. To exploit these complementary signals, we introduce Rep3Net, a unified multimodal architecture that fuses RDKit molecular descriptors, graph-derived features from a residual graph-convolutional backbone, and ChemBERTa SMILES embeddings. We evaluate Rep3Net on a curated ChEMBL subset for Human PARP1 using fivefold cross validation. Rep3Net attains an MSE of $0.83\pm0.06$, RMSE of $0.91\pm0.03$, $R^{2}=0.43\pm0.01$, and yields Pearson and Spearman correlations of $0.66\pm0.01$ and $0.67\pm0.01$, respectively, substantially improving over several strong GNN baselines. In addition, Rep3Net achieves a favorable latency-to-parameter trade-off thanks to a single-layer GCN backbone and parallel frozen encoders. Ablations show that graph topology, ChemBERTa semantics, and handcrafted descriptors each contribute complementary information, with full fusion providing the largest error reduction. These results demonstrate that multimodal representation fusion can improve potency prediction for PARP1 and provide a scalable framework for virtual screening in early-stage drug discovery.
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