Abstract
The paper is concerned with repurposing drugs based on chemical similarity to existing drugs, with an application to antibiotics. A simple ‘white box’ 2D chemical fingerprint-based decision tree approach is shown to largely recapitulate a neural network study in the literature. In particular, the repurposing of halicin is shown to be based on an explicit fingerprint pattern, unlike the neural network ‘black box’ methodology.
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Antibiotics from a white box