Deep phenotypic profiling of neuroactive drugs in larval zebrafish.

Autor: Gendelev, Leo, Taylor, Jack, Myers-Turnbull, Douglas, Chen, Steven, McCarroll, Matthew N., Arkin, Michelle R., Kokel, David, Keiser, Michael J.
Zdroj: Nature Communications; 11/17/2024, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p1-16, 16p
Abstrakt: Behavioral larval zebrafish screens leverage a high-throughput small molecule discovery format to find neuroactive molecules relevant to mammalian physiology. We screen a library of 650 central nervous system active compounds in high replicate to train deep metric learning models on zebrafish behavioral profiles. The machine learning initially exploited subtle artifacts in the phenotypic screen, necessitating a complete experimental re-run with rigorous physical well-wise randomization. These large matched phenotypic screening datasets (initial and well-randomized) provide a unique opportunity to quantify and understand shortcut learning in a full-scale, real-world drug discovery dataset. The final deep metric learning model substantially outperforms correlation distance–the canonical way of computing distances between profiles–and generalizes to an orthogonal dataset of diverse drug-like compounds. We validate predictions by prospective in vitro radio-ligand binding assays against human protein targets, achieving a hit rate of 58% despite crossing species and chemical scaffold boundaries. These neuroactive compounds exhibit diverse chemical scaffolds, demonstrating that zebrafish phenotypic screens combined with metric learning achieve robust scaffold hopping capabilities. The authors used deep metric learning to characterize 650 neuroactive compounds by zebrafish behavioral profiles. After redesigning a large screen to overcome AI/ML shortcut learning, zebrafish behavioral similarity found compounds acting on the same human receptors as structurally dissimilar drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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