Monte Carlo Method Based QSAR Studies of Mer Kinase Inhibitors in Compliance with OECD Principles

Abstract

Monte Carlo method based QSAR studies for inhibitors of Mer kinase, a potential novel target for cancer treatment, has been carried out using balance of correlation technique. The data was divided into three random and dissimilar splits and hybrid optimal descriptors derived from SMILES and hydrogen filled graphs based notations were used for construction of QSAR models. The generated models have good fitting ability, robustness, generalizability and internal predictive ability. The external predictive ability has been tested using multiple criteria and described models exhibited good performance in all of these tests. The values of R², Q², R² _test, Q² _test, R² _m and ∆R² _m for the best model are 0.9502, 0.9388, 0.9469, 0.9083, 0.7534 and 0.0894 respectively. Also, the structural characteristics responsible for enhancement and reduction of activity have been extracted. Further, the agreement with the OECD rules for QSAR model has been discussed.

Key words

Mer kinase - QSAR - CORAL - SMILES - OECD

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