2017

SMILES Enumeration as Data Augmentation for Neural Network Modeling of Molecules

Bjerrum, Esben Jannik

Understand

Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) is a single line text representation of a unique molecule.

  • One molecule can however have multiple SMILES strings, which is a reason that canonical SMILES have been defined, which ensures a one to one correspondence between SMILES string and molecule.
  • Here the fact that multiple SMILES represent the same molecule is explored as a technique for data augmentation of a molecular QSAR dataset modeled by a long short term memory (LSTM) cell based neural network.
  • The augmented dataset was 130 times bigger than the original.

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