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Record W4415620394 · doi:10.3390/appliedchem5040030

Modeling of New Agents with Potential Antidiabetic Activity Based on Machine Learning Algorithms

2025· article· en· W4415620394 on OpenAlex
Yevhen Pruhlo, Ivan Iurchenko, Alina Tomenko

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Bibliographic record

VenueAppliedChem · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicComputational Drug Discovery Methods
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVirtual screeningSupport vector machineRandom forestENCODEBoosting (machine learning)Categorical variableGradient boostingPipeline (software)Feature (linguistics)

Abstract

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Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a growing global health challenge, expected to affect over 600 million people by 2045. The discovery of new antidiabetic agents remains resource-intensive, motivating the use of machine learning (ML) for virtual screening based on molecular structure. In this study, we developed a predictive pipeline integrating two distinct descriptor types: high-dimensional numerical features from the Mordred library (>1800 2D/3D descriptors) and categorical ontological annotations from the ClassyFire and ChEBI systems. These encode hierarchical chemical classifications and functional group labels. The dataset included 45 active compounds and thousands of inactive molecules, depending on the descriptor system. To address class imbalance, we applied SMOTE and created balanced training and test sets while preserving independent validation sets. Thirteen ML models—including regression, SVM, naive Bayes, decision trees, ensemble methods, and others—were trained using stratified 12-fold cross-validation and evaluated across training, test, and validation. Ridge Regression showed the best generalization (MCC = 0.814), with Gradient Boosting following (MCC = 0.570). Feature importance analysis highlighted the complementary nature of the descriptors: Ridge Regression emphasized ClassyFire taxonomies such as CHEMONTID:0000229 and CHEBI:35622, while Mordred-based models (e.g., Random Forest) prioritized structural and electronic features like MAXsssCH and ETA_dEpsilon_D. This study is the first to systematically integrate and compare structural and ontological descriptors for antidiabetic compound prediction. The framework offers a scalable and interpretable approach to virtual screening and can be extended to other therapeutic domains to accelerate early-stage drug discovery.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.686
Threshold uncertainty score0.542

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it