Date of Completion

12-18-2010

Embargo Period

1-1-2001

Advisors

Jose Manautou;Dennis Hill;Michael Fisher

Field of Study

Pharmaceutical Science

Degree

Master of Science

Open Access

Campus Access

Abstract

A back propagation artificial neural network (ANN) was used to create a 10 fold leave 10% out cross validated ensemble model of high performance liquid chromatography retention index (HPLC-RI) for a dataset of 498 diverse drug-like compounds. A 10 fold multiple linear regression (MLR) ensemble model of the same data was developed for comparison. Molecular structure was described using IGroup E-State indices, a novel set of structure-information representation (SIR) descriptors, along with molecular connectivity chi and kappa indices and other SIR descriptors previously reported. The same input descriptors were used to develop models by both learning algorithms. The MLR model yielded marginally acceptable statistics with training correlation r2 = 0.65, mean absolute error (MAE) = 83 RI units. External validation of 104 compounds not used for model development yielded validation v2 = 0.49 and MAE = 73 RI units. The distribution of residuals for the fit and validate datasets suggest a non-linear relationship between retention index and molecular structure as described by the SIR indices. Not surprisingly, the ANN model was significantly more accurate for both training and validation with training set r2 = 0.93, MAE = 30 RI units and validation v2 = 0.84, MAE = 41 RI units. For the ANN model, a total of 91% of validation predictions were within 100 RI units of the experimental value.

Major Advisor

David F. Grant

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