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Targeting SARS-CoV-2 with AI- and HPC-enabled Lead Generation: A First Data Release

2020/05/28 by Babuji, Yadu, Blaiszik, Ben, Brettin, Tom +15
#Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.02431

Abstract

Researchers across the globe are seeking to rapidly repurpose existing drugs or discover new drugs to counter the the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). One promising approach is to train machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to screen large numbers of small molecules. As a contribution to that effort, we are aggregating numerous small molecules from a variety of sources, using high-performance computing (HPC) to computer diverse properties of those molecules, using the computed properties to train ML/AI models, and then using the resulting models for screening. In this first data release, we make available 23 datasets collected from community sources representing over 4.2 B molecules enriched with pre-computed: 1) molecular fingerprints to aid similarity searches, 2) 2D images of molecules to enable exploration and application of image-based deep learning methods, and 3) 2D and 3D molecular descriptors to speed development of machine learning models. This data release encompasses structural information on the 4.2 B molecules and 60 TB of pre-computed data. Future releases will expand the data to include more detailed molecular simulations, computed models, and other products.

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