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Record W4415933323 · doi:10.1021/acsomega.5c07055

Half-Space Proximal Networks (HSPNs): A Proxy for Multi-Query Similarity Searching Models Predicting Tumor-Homing Peptides

2025· article· en· W4415933323 on OpenAlex
Maylin Romero, Yovani Marrero‐Ponce, Félix Martínez-Rios, Guillermı́n Agüero-Chapin, Longendri Aguilera‐Mendoza, Edgar Chávez, Edgar Márquez, Noel Pérez, José R. Mora, Ernesto Contreras‐Torres, Stephen J. Barigye

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Bibliographic record

VenueACS Omega · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMachine Learning in Bioinformatics
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersUniversidad San Francisco de QuitoUniversitat de València
KeywordsLeverage (statistics)Similarity (geometry)CentralityPairwise comparisonBenchmarkingPattern recognition (psychology)Artificial neural networkProxy (statistics)

Abstract

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High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Tumor-homing peptides (THPs) have emerged as promising agents in cancer treatments. These short sequences can specifically target tumor cells and vasculature. Here, a nontrained machine learning (ML) method based on network science and multiquery similarity searching to predict THPs is presented. We leverage the network-based representation of THPs’ chemical space to extract valuable information by employing a novel similarity-based, yet sparse, network known as the half-space proximal network (HSPN). The HSPN of the THPs’ giant component is composed of 12 communities that represent distinct modes of action and/or targets, as well as sequence templates (scaffolds). In the HSPN analysis, various centrality measures were employed to identify the most significant and nonredundant THPs. These central THPs were then used as queries (Qs) in group fusion similarity-based searches against an established collection of known THPs. The performance of the resulting multiquery similarity-based search models (MQSSMs) was assessed using three benchmarking datasets of THPs/non-THPs. The MQSSMs derived from the HSPNs ( THP2 ) demonstrated superior discrimination performance compared to the classical chemical space networks (CSNs, namely THP1 ) when applied to the THPs/non-THPs datasets Remarkably, exceptional MCC values (>0.887) were achieved when utilizing Qs from both CSN and HSPN networks to construct MQSSMs ( THP3 ), employing a similarity threshold of 0.6, in external datasets. Next, we conducted a statistical comparison between the performance of our top-performing MQSSM, THP3, and several THP prediction servers, including TumorHPD, THPep, SCMTHP, and NEPTUNE. Our proposed model demonstrated its superiority by surpassing the state-of-the-art supervised and trained ML methods for THP prediction with statistically significant differences. These results provide strong evidence that network-based similarity searches are highly effective and reliable for identifying THPs.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.391
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
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 science0.0000.000
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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.278 · 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