Multi-Dimensional SAR Analysis for Drug Discovery

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Solution Overview

Problem

The pharmaceutical industry faces challenges in analyzing high-throughput system data due to the inadequacy of one-dimensional data analysis methods for converting multi-dimensional data matrices into structural chemical information, necessitating a method for automatically finding correlations in complex data matrices and extracting latent multidimensional cohesions.

Innovation Solution

A method involving the calculation of structural fragments or physico-chemical properties of chemical structures, association with biological descriptor data, and analysis using partial-least-square methods or neural networks to visualize the effects on biological descriptors, with the option to generate new molecules with favorable profiles.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If one-dimensional data analysis methods are used, then the analysis process is simple, but the ability to convert multi-dimensional data matrices into structural chemical information is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis processVSAvoidstructural chemical information
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transitions from one-dimensional data analysis to multi-dimensional data matrix analysis by incorporating multiple descriptors (structural, physicochemical, biological) simultaneously. This dimensional expansion enables comprehensive conversion of complex HTS data into structural chemical information, resolving the limitation of traditional methods while maintaining analytical capability through systematic multi-parameter evaluation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Loss of information

If multi-dimensional data matrix analysis is implemented, then structural chemical information can be extracted, but the data analysis complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural chemical informationVSAvoiddata analysis
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the complex multi-dimensional data analysis into distinct computational modules: structural descriptor calculation, physicochemical property computation, biological activity evaluation, and correlation analysis. This segmentation allows each component to be processed independently using appropriate methods, reducing overall analytical complexity while preserving the ability to extract comprehensive structural chemical information from HTS data matrices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP1762954B1Automated generation of multi-dimensional structure activity and structure property relationships
Publication Date: 2019.08.21 F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE & CO AG
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AI summary

The present invention relates to automated generation of multi-dimensional structure activity and structure property relationships.