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Record W7117470600 · doi:10.1111/cbdd.70230

Guided Ensemble Stacking Method for Predicting Biological Activities of Compounds

2025· article· en· W7117470600 on OpenAlex
Azar Shamloo, Jack A. Tuszyński, Yun K. Tam, Chih‐Yuan Tseng

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Bibliographic record

VenueChemical Biology & Drug Design · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicComputational Drug Discovery Methods
Canadian institutionsPCL Construction (Canada)University of Alberta
FundersMitacs
KeywordsQuantitative structure–activity relationshipStackingRegressionLimitingKey (lock)Drug discoveryEnsemble learningPredictive modellingPipeline (software)

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Machine learning (ML)‐driven quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) modeling has gained significant attention for predicting compound biological activity based on compounds' structural, chemical, and physical properties because of the advancement of ML techniques. However, traditional ML‐QSAR models often suffer from biases due to algorithm selection and limitations in training data. Additionally, these approaches root in deducing biological activities purely from compounds' structural information and disregard their pharmacokinetic (PK) properties, a key factor contributing to the 15% failure rate in clinical trials, limiting their applicability in drug discovery. To address these challenges, we propose a guided ensemble‐based ML approach that integrates a supervised data preparation strategy with an ensemble stacking method, leveraging the strengths of multiple ML algorithms. By incorporating PK properties, our approach enhances prediction reliability. Specifically, we developed two ensemble stacking models: The classification model predicts the biological activity type, “inhibition” versus “activation,” based on compound features, while the regression model predicts bioactivity values. The classification model achieved an accuracy exceeding 0.85, while the regression model attained an R 2 above 0.77, demonstrating superior performance over traditional QSAR models. These results highlight the potential of our approach in improving drug discovery pipelines by enhancing predictive accuracy and addressing key QSAR limitations.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.368
Threshold uncertainty score0.720

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
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 science0.0010.000
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 head0.067
GPT teacher head0.371
Teacher spread0.304 · 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