title: Screening for new antidepressant leads of multiple activities by support vector machines.
abstract: Virtual screening was carried out against 21 biological targets related to depression by support vector machine classification using the same atom-type descriptors. The models were effective as 0.2-0.8 of theoretical enrichments of the external test data sets could be achieved, depending on the target. The set of predicted active molecules had large diversity and contained examples with high dissimilarity to the compounds of training sets. Filtering the database of known antidepressants by all 21 models it was found that on average compounds were classified active for 2.3 targets.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima, Shomachi, Japan.
authors.forename: Zsolt
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lepp
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chuman
mesh_terms: D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / Q000379:methods*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015394:Molecular Structure; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents