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.
Topics
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
Links
Repository
https://github.com/MoreiraLAB/DrugTax