01. PROMO
ADMET Predictor®
03. modules
ADMET Predictor® Modules
04. ADMET Predictor® WHAT & HOW
Novel Approaches

ADMET Predictor is a machine learning software tool that quickly and accurately predicts over 175 properties including solubility, logP, pKa, sites of CYP metabolism, and Ames mutagenicity. The ADMET Modeler™ module in ADMET Predictor allows one to rapidly and easily create high-quality QSAR/QSPR models based on your own data. The newest module offers advanced data mining, clustering, and matched molecular pair analysis.  The program has an intuitive user interface that allows one to easily manipulate and visualize data.

The ADMET Predictor development team strives to build the best QSAR/QSPR machine learning models and fast, efficient software.  This dedication to science is a major reason why several of our models have ranked #1 in peer-review articles.  ADMET Predictor provides:

  • Over 175 predicted properties
  • Model applicability domain
  • pKa prediction including all microstates
  • CYP metabolite generation and kinetic parameters
  • Confidence estimates for classification models
  • A revamped, intuitive interface with pulldown menus, quick access icons, and context-specific menus
  • Interactive distribution and 2D and 3D scatter plots
  • Ability to create your own QSPR/QSAR models
  • PBPK… Meet Drug Design
  • Excellent customer support
  • Incubator & Biotech Startup Program

ADMET Predictor Data Sheet

ADMET Predictor® is computer software, namely, computer software for Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) modeling of Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Elimination, and Toxicity (ADMET) properties; computer software which provides estimates of over 140 Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Elimination, and Toxicity (ADMET) properties; computer software which allows building Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSAR/QSPR) models using in-house and public data sources with a proprietary software program; computer software with an interface that allows one to manipulate and visualize data; computer software which allows for the clustering of compound libraries based upon shared scaffolds; computer software which allows for the generation of virtual compound libraries; computer software which allows for creation of custom rules for risk assessment; computer software which generates the maximum common substructure between two or more structures; computer software which generates match molecular pair analysis; computer software that generates and uses fingerprints to analyze structures.

To request a license for or evaluation of ADMET Predictor®https://www.simulations-plus.com/software-evaluation-request-form/

Biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and chemical companies license ADMET Predictor for diverse number of applications including:

  • Physicochemical property prediction of real and virtual compounds
  • Metabolite prediction
  • Toxicity prediction
  • Prediction of dose needed to achieve a specific blood level concentration
  • Analysis of high throughput screening data
  • Matched molecule pair analysis and activity cliff detection
  • SAR analysis including R-group creation and analysis
  • Similarity searching
  • Creating diverse compounds subsets
  • Enumerating combinatorial chemistry libraries
  • Calculation of various binding metrics, e.g. lipophillic ligand efficiency (LLE)

ADMET Risk™

The original Rule of 5 is widely considered to be an important development in modern drug discovery (Lipinski, et al; 1997). The Rule of 5 takes on numeric values from 0 to 4 as a measure of the compounds potential absorption liability. As such, the Rule of 5 is a useful computational filter in drug candidate screening. In terms of ADMET Predictor descriptors and models, the Rule Of 5 model rules can be formulated as follow the following set of conditions:

  • MlogP > 4.15 (excessive lipophilicity)
  • MWt > 500 (large size)
  • HBDH > 5 (too many potential hydrogen bond donors)
  • M_NO > 10 (too many potential hydrogen bond acceptors)

Most commercial drugs suitable for oral dosing violate no more than one of the rules these conditions represent.

As an extension of that concept, Simulations Plus has created a series of “ADMET Risk” rule sets and calibrated them against our own ADMET models. They are parameterized to include thresholds for a wide range of calculated and predicted properties that represent potential obstacles to a compound being successfully developed as an orally bioavailable drug. These thresholds were obtained by focusing in on a specific subset of drugs in the World Drug Index (WDI). Similar to the methodology used by Lipinski et al., we removed irrelevant compounds from a 2008 version of the WDI. In particular, we removed phosphates, antiseptics, insecticides, emollients, laxatives, etc., as well as any compound that did not have an associated United States Adopted Name (USAN) or International Non-proprietary Name (INN) identifier. The structure of the principal component in salts was extracted and neutralized, after which duplicate structures were removed. This left us with a data set of 2,316 molecules, 8.3% of which violated more than one of Lipinski’s rules.

Rule of 5 only addresses a narrow slice of the full gamut of hurdles a compound must pass before it can become a drug. In addition, it relies on “hard” thresholds: a compound with a molecular weight of 499 satisfies the MWt rule but a compound with a molecular weight of 501 violates it.

We calculated a broad range of relevant molecular descriptors and ADMET property predictions for the focused subset of WDI and identified “soft” threshold ranges for each along the lines suggested by (Petit; 2012) such that approximately 85% of the compounds in the data set satisfy them completely and somewhat less than 10% violate them completely. The former contribute nothing to the overall Risk, whereas the latter contribute the full amount (weight) specified for the corresponding rule. Predictions falling in the gray area in between contribute fractional amounts to the Risk Score. The concept is illustrated on the left.

admet-risk-1An illustration of “soft” thresholds for an inequality rule. The score starts increasing linearly from 0 at “start value” of the descriptor in the neighborhood of the boundary B, and reaches 1 at the “end value” value of the descriptor.

Highly correlated criteria were combined into single rules using Boolean operators. The rules for identifying overly large structures, for example, is:

size (Sz): MWt > [450,550] OR N_Atoms > [32,38] OR MolVol > [475,550] OR N_Bonds > [35,41]

where the values within the brackets indicate the boundaries of threshold regions. The Sz rule includes four individual criteria, all of which use the “>” relational operator. Predictions falling below the minimum threshold values contribute nothing to the Risk, whereas predictions above the maximum contribute 1 violation “point”. Intermediate values represent intermediate risks: a compound of molecular weight 500 violates the first criterion and so would represent an incremental Risk of 0.5 points for that criterion. Logical operators such as ORs and ANDs can also be included in the rules. The combined points from the criteria making up a rule then yield an overall value between 0 and 1, which is multiplied by the weight assigned to the rule as a whole.

The overall ADMET_Risk is the sum of three risks:

  • Absn_Risk – risk of low fraction absorbed (PCB Module models)
  • CYP_Risk – risk of high CYP metabolism (MET Module models)
  • TOX_Risk – toxicity related risks (TOX Module models)

Two additional pharmacokinetic risks (high plasma protein binding and high steady-state volume of distribution) are also included in the ADMET_Risk score.

References

Lipinski CA, Lombardo F, Dominy BW, Feeney PJ. “Experimental and Computational Approaches to Estimate Solubility and Permeability in Drug Discovery and Development Settings.” Adv Drug Delivery Rev. 1997; 23:3-25.

Petit J, Meurice N, Kaiser C, Maggiora G. “Softening the Rule of Five – where to draw the line?” Bioorg Med Chem. 2012; 20:5343-5351.

Key enhancements in AP11 include:

  • NEW data from three industrial partners more than doubles the number of ionization constants for enhanced predictive accuracy and wider applicability of our S+pKa model
  • NEW functionality to perform 3D virtual screening based on shape and pharmacophore-feature similarity
  • NEW CYP inhibition (Ki) models to allow for rapid DDI risk assessment

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