Nature Communications (Apr 2023)

Predicting compound activity from phenotypic profiles and chemical structures

  • Nikita Moshkov,
  • Tim Becker,
  • Kevin Yang,
  • Peter Horvath,
  • Vlado Dancik,
  • Bridget K. Wagner,
  • Paul A. Clemons,
  • Shantanu Singh,
  • Anne E. Carpenter,
  • Juan C. Caicedo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37570-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Experimental assays are used to determine if compounds cause a desired activity in cells. Here the authors demonstrate that computational methods can predict compound bioactivity given their chemical structure, imaging and gene expression data from historic screening libraries.