[WIP] Bayer Optimization Data Set Conformer Reduction

Contributors: David Mobley, Lee-Ping Wang, Hyesu Jang, Jeff Wagner, Chris Bayly, Josh Horton, Chaya Stern, Jessica Maat

Background: The Open Force Field Initiative is working on developing optimization training data sets via a fingerprint and clustering method. The aim of this project is to pull chemically diverse molecules from a range of data sets to survey a large chemical space for our May release force field.

Aim: The aim of this sub-experiment is to limit the number of conformers in a patented data set from Bayer.

Problem: The Bayer set contains large flexible drug molecules that range from 12-30 heavy atoms. Current fingerprint & clustering methods result in 525 molecules & 16,242 conformers. We need to reduce data set to ~3 conformers/molecule.

Hypothesized contributors to large number of conformers:

• Large molecule size

• Excessive rotatable bonds

Approach:

1. Try numerous size filtering strategies for molecule size that try to preserve chemical diversity and measure # of molecules and conformers.

2. If #1 is not successful, move onto rotatable bond filtering.

3. if #1 & #2 are not successful, move onto Fragmentation.

Experimental notes:

Clustering method: DBSCAN eps = 0.3, min_samples = 4

Fingerprint method: MACCS (supported by previous experiments from Hyesu Jang)

Conclusion: