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Neuraldecipher - reverse-engineering extended-connectivity fingerprints (ECFPs) to their molecular structures.


ABSTRACT: Protecting molecular structures from disclosure against external parties is of great relevance for industrial and private associations, such as pharmaceutical companies. Within the framework of external collaborations, it is common to exchange datasets by encoding the molecular structures into descriptors. Molecular fingerprints such as the extended-connectivity fingerprints (ECFPs) are frequently used for such an exchange, because they typically perform well on quantitative structure-activity relationship tasks. ECFPs are often considered to be non-invertible due to the way they are computed. In this paper, we present a fast reverse-engineering method to deduce the molecular structure given revealed ECFPs. Our method includes the Neuraldecipher, a neural network model that predicts a compact vector representation of compounds, given ECFPs. We then utilize another pre-trained model to retrieve the molecular structure as SMILES representation. We demonstrate that our method is able to reconstruct molecular structures to some extent, and improves, when ECFPs with larger fingerprint sizes are revealed. For example, given ECFP count vectors of length 4096, we are able to correctly deduce up to 69% of molecular structures on a validation set (112 K unique samples) with our method.

SUBMITTER: Le T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8162443 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Neuraldecipher - reverse-engineering extended-connectivity fingerprints (ECFPs) to their molecular structures.

Le Tuan T   Winter Robin R   Noé Frank F   Clevert Djork-Arné DA  

Chemical science 20200911 38


Protecting molecular structures from disclosure against external parties is of great relevance for industrial and private associations, such as pharmaceutical companies. Within the framework of external collaborations, it is common to exchange datasets by encoding the molecular structures into descriptors. Molecular fingerprints such as the extended-connectivity fingerprints (ECFPs) are frequently used for such an exchange, because they typically perform well on quantitative structure-activity r  ...[more]

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