Motivation Molecular carcinogenicity is a preventable cause of cancer, but systematically identifying carcinogenic compounds, which involves performing experiments on animal models, is expensive, time consuming and low throughput. As a result, carcinogenicity information is limited and building data-driven models with good prediction accuracy remains a major challenge. Results In this work, we propose CONCERTO, a deep learning model that uses a graph transformer in conjunction with a molecular fingerprint representation for carcinogenicity prediction from molecular structure. Special efforts have been made to overcome the data size constraint, such as multi-round pre-training on related but lower quality mutagenicity data, and transfer learning from a large self-supervised model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model performs well and can generalize to external validation sets. CONCERTO could be useful for guiding future carcinogenicity experiments and provide insight into the molecular basis of carcinogenicity. Availability and implementation The code and data underlying this article are available on github at https://github.com/bowang-lab/CONCERTO
Molecular carcinogenicity is a preventable cause of cancer, however, most experimental testing of molecular compounds is an expensive and time consuming process, making high throughput experimental approaches infeasible. In recent years, there has been substantial progress in machine learning techniques for molecular property prediction. In this work, we propose a model for carcinogenicity prediction, CONCERTO, which uses a graph transformer in conjunction with a molecular fingerprint representation, trained on multi-round muta-genicity and carcinogenicity objectives. To train and validate CONCERTO, we augment the training dataset with more informative labels and utilize a larger external validation dataset. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model yields results superior to alternate approaches for molecular carcinogenicity prediction.
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