DrugTax

DrugTax extracts chemical taxonomy classifications and molecular features from SMILES to support chemoinformatics analyses and AI-driven drug discovery.


Key Features:

  • SMILES input: Accepts SMILES strings as the input representation for small molecules.
  • Taxonomy and feature extraction: Simultaneously derives chemical taxonomy labels and molecular feature sets from input molecules.
  • Bulk analysis and visualization: Performs bulk analyses and provides visualization outputs for chemical space representation and molecule similarity assessment.
  • Pipeline integration: Supports integration into drug discovery computational pipelines.
  • AI and big-data compatibility: Produces features and taxonomies suitable for AI methodologies and large-scale chemoinformatics workflows.

Scientific Applications:

  • Chemoinformatics processing: Facilitates molecular characterization, taxonomy mapping, and feature generation for chemical property analysis.
  • Drug discovery support: Enables AI-driven identification and optimization of drug candidates by supplying taxonomy and feature data.

Methodology:

Operates on SMILES representations to extract taxonomy information and molecular features.

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Details

License:
GPL-3.0
Cost:
Free of charge
Tool Type:
library
Operating Systems:
Mac, Linux, Windows
Programming Languages:
Python
Added:
1/9/2023
Last Updated:
11/24/2024

Operations

Publications

Preto AJ, Correia PC, Moreira IS. DrugTax: package for drug taxonomy identification and explainable feature extraction. Journal of Cheminformatics. 2022;14(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-022-00649-w. PMID:36303244. PMCID:PMC9609197.

PMID: 36303244
PMCID: PMC9609197
Funding: - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: SFRH/BD/144966/2019, UIDB/04539/2020

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