用生物数据训练化学结构模型,实现无需实验的虚拟药物筛选。
Empowering Chemical Structures with Biological Insights for Scalable Phenotypic Virtual Screening
- 用转录组和形态学数据监督训练,从化学结构中提取生物指纹。
- 零样本下药物作用机制预测准确率提升超20%,抗癌药发现命中率增6倍。
- 适合需要高效筛选生物活性分子的研究者使用。
大规模识别具有生物活性的化合物对现代药物研发至关重要。当前面临的核心矛盾是:基于结构的筛选虽可扩展但缺乏生物学背景,而高内涵表型分析虽深入但成本高昂。本文提出DECODE(DEcomposing Cellular Observations of Drug Effects)框架,通过有限的配对转录组与形态学数据作为训练监督信号,从化学结构中提取与测量无关的生物特征,并有效过滤实验噪声。评估表明,该方法在零样本设置下,药物作用机制(MOA)预测相对化学基线提升超过20%;外部验证中,新抗癌药物的命中率提高6倍。代码与数据集已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Motivation: The scalable identification of bioactive compounds is essential for contemporary drug discovery. This process faces a key trade-off: structural screening offers scalability but lacks biological context, whereas high-content phenotypic profiling provides deep biological insights but is resource-intensive. The primary challenge is to extract robust biological signals from noisy data and encode them into representations that do not require biological data at inference. Results: This study presents DECODE (DEcomposing Cellular Observations of Drug Effects), a framework that bridges this gap by empowering chemical representations with intrinsic biological semantics to enable structure-based in silico biological profiling. DECODE leverages limited paired transcriptomic and morphological data as supervisory signals during training, enabling the extraction of a measurement-invariant biological fingerprint from chemical structures and explicit filtering of experimental noise. Our evaluations demonstrate that DECODE retrieves functionally similar drugs in zero-shot settings with over 20% relative improvement over chemical baselines in mechanism-of-action (MOA) prediction. Furthermore, the framework achieves a 6-fold increase in hit rates for novel anti-cancer agents during external validation. Availability and implementation: The codes and datasets of DECODE are available at https://github.com/lian-xiao/DECODE.
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