chemprop 1.4.1

Molecular Property Prediction with Message Passing Neural Networks

Molecular Property Prediction

This repository contains message passing neural networks for molecular property prediction as described in the paper Analyzing Learned Molecular Representations for Property Prediction and as used in the paper A Deep Learning Approach to Antibiotic Discovery for molecules and Machine Learning of Reaction Properties via Learned Representations of the Condensed Graph of Reaction for reactions.

Documentation: Full documentation of Chemprop is available at https://chemprop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

Website: A web prediction interface with some trained Chemprop models is available at chemprop.csail.mit.edu.

Tutorial: These slides provide a Chemprop tutorial and highlight recent additions as of April 28th, 2020.

COVID-19 Update

Please see aicures.mit.edu and the associated data GitHub repo for information about our recent efforts to use Chemprop to identify drug candidates for treating COVID-19.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
  • Option 1: Installing from PyPi
  • Option 2: Installing from source
  • Docker
• Web Interface
• Within Python
• Data
• Training
  • Train/Validation/Test Splits
  • Cross validation
  • Ensembling
  • Hyperparameter Optimization
  • Aggregation
  • Additional Features
    • RDKit 2D Features
    • Custom Features
    • Atomic Features
  • Spectra
  • Reaction
  • Pretraining
  • Missing target values
  • Caching
• Predicting
  • Epistemic Uncertainty
• Encode Fingerprint Latent Representation
• Interpreting Model Prediction
• TensorBoard
• Results

Requirements

For small datasets (~1000 molecules), it is possible to train models within a few minutes on a standard laptop with CPUs only. However, for larger datasets and larger Chemprop models, we recommend using a GPU for significantly faster training.

To use chemprop with GPUs, you will need:

• cuda >= 8.0
• cuDNN

Installation

Chemprop can either be installed from PyPi via pip or from source (i.e., directly from this git repo). The PyPi version includes a vast majority of Chemprop functionality, but some functionality is only accessible when installed from source.

Both options require conda, so first install Miniconda from https://conda.io/miniconda.html.

Then proceed to either option below to complete the installation. Note that on machines with GPUs, you may need to manually install a GPU-enabled version of PyTorch by following the instructions here.

Option 1: Installing from PyPi

1. conda create -n chemprop python=3.8
2. conda activate chemprop
3. conda install -c conda-forge rdkit
4. pip install git+https://github.com/bp-kelley/descriptastorus
5. pip install chemprop

Option 2: Installing from source

1. git clone https://github.com/chemprop/chemprop.git
2. cd chemprop
3. conda env create -f environment.yml
4. conda activate chemprop
5. pip install -e .

Docker

Chemprop can also be installed with Docker. Docker makes it possible to isolate the Chemprop code and environment. To install and run our code in a Docker container, follow these steps:

1. git clone https://github.com/chemprop/chemprop.git
2. cd chemprop
3. Install Docker from https://docs.docker.com/install/
4. docker build -t chemprop .
5. docker run -it chemprop:latest

Note that you will need to run the latter command with nvidia-docker if you are on a GPU machine in order to be able to access the GPUs. Alternatively, with Docker 19.03+, you can specify the --gpus command line option instead.

In addition, you will also need to ensure that the CUDA toolkit version in the Docker image is compatible with the CUDA driver on your host machine. Newer CUDA driver versions are backward-compatible with older CUDA toolkit versions. To set a specific CUDA toolkit version, add cudatoolkit=X.Y to environment.yml before building the Docker image.

Web Interface

For those less familiar with the command line, Chemprop also includes a web interface which allows for basic training and predicting. An example of the website (in demo mode with training disabled) is available here: chemprop.csail.mit.edu.

You can start the web interface on your local machine in two ways. Flask is used for development mode while gunicorn is used for production mode.

Flask

Run chemprop_web (or optionally python web.py if installed from source) and then navigate to localhost:5000 in a web browser.

Gunicorn

Gunicorn is only available for a UNIX environment, meaning it will not work on Windows. It is not installed by default with the rest of Chemprop, so first run:

pip install gunicorn

Next, navigate to chemprop/web and run gunicorn --bind {host}:{port} 'wsgi:build_app()'. This will start the site in production mode.

• To run this server in the background, add the --daemon flag.
• Arguments including init_db and demo can be passed with this pattern: 'wsgi:build_app(init_db=True, demo=True)'
• Gunicorn documentation can be found here.

Within Python

For information on the use of Chemprop within a python script, refer to the Within a python script section of the documentation.

Data

In order to train a model, you must provide training data containing molecules (as SMILES strings) and known target values. Targets can either be real numbers, if performing regression, or binary (i.e. 0s and 1s), if performing classification. Target values which are unknown can be left as blanks.

Our model can either train on a single target ("single tasking") or on multiple targets simultaneously ("multi-tasking").

The data file must be be a CSV file with a header row. For example:

smiles,NR-AR,NR-AR-LBD,NR-AhR,NR-Aromatase,NR-ER,NR-ER-LBD,NR-PPAR-gamma,SR-ARE,SR-ATAD5,SR-HSE,SR-MMP,SR-p53
CCOc1ccc2nc(S(N)(=O)=O)sc2c1,0,0,1,,,0,0,1,0,0,0,0
CCN1C(=O)NC(c2ccccc2)C1=O,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,,0,,0,0
...

By default, it is assumed that the SMILES are in the first column (can be changed using --number_of_molecules) and the targets are in the remaining columns. However, the specific columns containing the SMILES and targets can be specified using the --smiles_columns <column_1> ... and --target_columns <column_1> <column_2> ... flags, respectively.

Datasets from MoleculeNet and a 450K subset of ChEMBL from http://www.bioinf.jku.at/research/lsc/index.html have been preprocessed and are available in data.tar.gz. To uncompress them, run tar xvzf data.tar.gz.

Training

To train a model, run:

chemprop_train --data_path <path> --dataset_type <type> --save_dir <dir>

where <path> is the path to a CSV file containing a dataset, <type> is one of [classification, regression, multiclass, spectra] depending on the type of the dataset, and <dir> is the directory where model checkpoints will be saved.

For example:

chemprop_train --data_path data/tox21.csv --dataset_type classification --save_dir tox21_checkpoints

A full list of available command-line arguments can be found in chemprop/args.py.

If installed from source, chemprop_train can be replaced with python train.py.

Notes:

• The default metric for classification is AUC and the default metric for regression is RMSE. Other metrics may be specified with --metric <metric>.
• --save_dir may be left out if you don't want to save model checkpoints.
• --quiet can be added to reduce the amount of debugging information printed to the console. Both a quiet and verbose version of the logs are saved in the save_dir.

Train/Validation/Test Splits

Our code supports several methods of splitting data into train, validation, and test sets.

Random: By default, the data will be split randomly into train, validation, and test sets.

Scaffold: Alternatively, the data can be split by molecular scaffold so that the same scaffold never appears in more than one split. This can be specified by adding --split_type scaffold_balanced.

Random With Repeated SMILES Some datasets have multiple entries with the same SMILES. To constrain splitting so the repeated SMILES are in the same split, use the argument --split_type random_with_repeated_smiles.

Separate val/test: If you have separate data files you would like to use as the validation or test set, you can specify them with --separate_val_path <val_path> and/or --separate_test_path <test_path>. If both are provided, then the data specified by --data_path is used entirely as the training data. If only one separate path is provided, the --data_path data is split between train data and either val or test data, whichever is not provided separately.

When data contains multiple molecules per datapoint, scaffold and repeated SMILES splitting will only constrain splitting based on one of the molecules. The key molecule can be chosen with the argument --split_key_molecule <int>, with the default setting using an index of 0 indicating the first molecule.

By default, both random and scaffold split the data into 80% train, 10% validation, and 10% test. This can be changed with --split_sizes <train_frac> <val_frac> <test_frac>. The default setting is --split_sizes 0.8 0.1 0.1. If a separate validation set or test set is provided, the split defaults to 80%-20%. Splitting involves a random component and can be seeded with --seed <seed>. The default setting is --seed 0.

Cross validation

k-fold cross-validation can be run by specifying --num_folds <k>. The default is --num_folds 1. Each trained model will have different data splits. The reported test score will be the average of the metrics from each fold.

Ensembling

To train an ensemble, specify the number of models in the ensemble with --ensemble_size <n>. The default is --ensemble_size 1. Each trained model within the ensemble will share data splits. The reported test score for one ensemble is the metric applied to the averaged prediction across the models. Ensembling and cros-validation can be used at the same time.

Hyperparameter Optimization

Although the default message passing architecture works quite well on a variety of datasets, optimizing the hyperparameters for a particular dataset often leads to marked improvement in predictive performance. We have automated hyperparameter optimization via Bayesian optimization (using the hyperopt package), which will find the optimal hidden size, depth, dropout, and number of feed-forward layers for our model. Optimization can be run as follows:

chemprop_hyperopt --data_path <data_path> --dataset_type <type> --num_iters <int> --config_save_path <config_path>

where <int> is the number of hyperparameter trial configurations to try and <config_path> is the path to a .json file where the optimal hyperparameters will be saved. If installed from source, chemprop_hyperopt can be replaced with python hyperparameter_optimization.py. Additional training arguments can also be supplied during submission, and they will be applied to all included training iterations (--epochs, --aggregation, --num_folds, --gpu, --seed, etc.). The argument --log_dir <dir_path> can optionally be provided to set a location for the hyperparameter optimization log.

Results of completed trial configurations will be stored there and may serve as checkpoints for other instances of hyperparameter optimization if the directory for hyperopt checkpoint files has been specified, --hyperopt_checkpoint_dir <path>. If --hyperopt_checkpoint_dir is not specified, then checkpoints will default to being stored with the hyperparame. Interrupted hyperparameter optimizations can be restarted by specifying the same directory. Previously completed hyperparameter optimizations can be used as the starting point for new optimizations with a larger selected number of iterations. Note that the --num_iters <int> argument will count all previous checkpoints saved in the directory towards the total number of iterations, and if the existing number of checkpoints exceeds this argment then no new trials will be carried out.

Manual training instances outside of hyperparameter optimization may also be considered in the history of attempted trials. The paths to the save_dirs for these training instances can be specified with --manual_trial_dirs <list-of-directories>. These directories must contain the files test_scores.csv and args.json as generated during training. To work appropriately, these training instances must be consistent with the parameter space being searched in hyperparameter optimization (including the hyperparameter optimization default of ffn_hidden_size being set equal to hidden_size). Manual trials considered with this argument are not added to the checkpoint directory.

As part of the hyperopt search algorithm, the first trial configurations for the model will be randomly spread through the search space. The number of randomized trials can be altered with the argument --startup_random_iters <int, default=10>. After this number of trial iterations has been carried out, subsequent trials will use the directed search algorithm to select parameter configurations. This startup count considers the total number of trials in the checkpoint directory rather than the number that has been carried out by an individual instance of hyperparamter optimization.

Parallel instances of hyperparameter optimization that share a checkpoint directory will have access to the shared results of hyperparameter optimization trials, allowing them to arrive at the desired total number of iterations collectively more quickly. In this way multiple GPUs or other computing resources can be applied to the search. Each instance of hyperparameter optimization is unaware of parallel trials that have not yet completed. This has several implications when running n parallel instances:

• A parallel search will have different information and search different parameters than a single instance sequential search.
• New trials will not consider the parameters in currently running trials, in rare cases leading to duplication.
• Up to n-1 extra random search iterations may occur above the number specified with --startup_random_iters.
• Up to n-1 extra total trials will be run above the chosen num_iters, though each instance will be exposed to at least that number of iterations.
• The last parallel instance to complete is the only one that is aware of all the trials when reporting results.

Once hyperparameter optimization is complete, the optimal hyperparameters can be applied during training by specifying the config path as follows:

chemprop_train --data_path <data_path> --dataset_type <type> --config_path <config_path>

Note that the hyperparameter optimization script sees all the data given to it. The intended use is to run the hyperparameter optimization script on a dataset with the eventual test set held out. If you need to optimize hyperparameters separately for several different cross validation splits, you should e.g. set up a bash script to run hyperparameter_optimization.py separately on each split's training and validation data with test held out.

Aggregation

By default, the atom-level representations from the message passing network are averaged over all atoms of a molecule to yield a molecule-level representation. Alternatively, the atomic vectors can be summed up (by specifying --aggregation sum) or summed up and divided by a constant number N (by specifying --aggregation norm --aggregation_norm <N>). A reasonable value for N is usually the average number of atoms per molecule in the dataset of interest. The default is --aggregation_norm 100.

Additional Features

While the model works very well on its own, especially after hyperparameter optimization, we have seen that additional features can further improve performance on certain datasets. The additional features can be added at the atom-, bond, or molecule-level. Molecule-level features can be either automatically generated by RDKit or custom features provided by the user.

Molecule-Level RDKit 2D Features

As a starting point, we recommend using pre-normalized RDKit features by using the --features_generator rdkit_2d_normalized --no_features_scaling flags. In general, we recommend NOT using the --no_features_scaling flag (i.e. allow the code to automatically perform feature scaling), but in the case of rdkit_2d_normalized, those features have been pre-normalized and don't require further scaling.

The full list of available features for --features_generator is as follows.

morgan is binary Morgan fingerprints, radius 2 and 2048 bits. morgan_count is count-based Morgan, radius 2 and 2048 bits. rdkit_2d is an unnormalized version of 200 assorted rdkit descriptors. Full list can be found at the bottom of our paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01561.pdf rdkit_2d_normalized is the CDF-normalized version of the 200 rdkit descriptors.

Molecule-Level Custom Features

If you install from source, you can modify the code to load custom features as follows:

1. Generate features: If you want to generate features in code, you can write a custom features generator function in chemprop/features/features_generators.py. Scroll down to the bottom of that file to see a features generator code template.
2. Load features: If you have features saved as a numpy .npy file or as a .csv file, you can load the features by using --features_path /path/to/features. Note that the features must be in the same order as the SMILES strings in your data file. Also note that .csv files must have a header row and the features should be comma-separated with one line per molecule. By default, provided features will be normalized unless the flag --no_features_scaling is used.

Atom-Level Features

Similar to the additional molecular features described above, you can also provide additional atomic features via --atom_descriptors_path /path/to/features with valid file formats:

• .npz file, where descriptors are saved as 2D array for each molecule in the exact same order as the SMILES strings in your data file.
• .pkl / .pckl / .pickle containing a pandas dataframe with smiles as index and a numpy array of descriptors as columns.
• .sdf containing all mol blocks with descriptors as entries.

The order of the descriptors for each atom per molecule must match the ordering of atoms in the RDKit molecule object. Further information on supplying atomic descriptors can be found here.

Users must select in which way atom descriptors are used. The command line option --atom_descriptors descriptor concatenates the new features to the embedded atomic features after the D-MPNN with an additional linear layer. The option --atom_descriptors feature concatenates the features to each atomic feature vector before the D-MPNN, so that they are used during message-passing. Alternatively, the user can overwrite the default atom features with the custom features using the option --overwrite_default_atom_features.

Similar to the molecule-level features, the atom-level descriptors and features are scaled by default. This can be disabled with the option --no_atom_descriptor_scaling

Bond-Level Features

Bond-level features can be provided in the same format as the atom-level features, using the option --bond_features_path /path/to/features. The order of the features for each molecule must match the bond ordering in the RDKit molecule object.

The bond-level features are concatenated with the bond feature vectors before the D-MPNN, such that they are used during message-passing. Alternatively, the user can overwrite the default bond features with the custom features using the option --overwrite_default_bond_features.

Similar to molecule-, and atom-level features, the bond-level features are scaled by default. This can be disabled with the option --no_bond_features_scaling.

Spectra

One of the data types that can be trained with Chemprop is "spectra". Spectra training is different than other datatypes because it considers the predictions of all targets together. Targets for spectra should be provided as the values for the spectrum at a specific position in the spectrum. The loss function for spectra is SID, spectral information divergence. Alternatively, Wasserstein distance (earthmover's distance) can be used for both loss function and metric with input arguments --metric wasserstein --alternative_loss_function wasserstein.

Spectra predictions are configured to return only positive values and normalize them to sum each spectrum to 1. Activation to enforce positivity is an exponential function by default but can also be set as a Softplus function, according to the argument --spectra_activation <exp or softplus>. Value positivity is enforced on input targets as well using a floor value that replaces negative or smaller target values with the floor value (default 1e-8), customizable with the argument --spectra_target_floor <float>.

In absorption spectra, sometimes the phase of collection will create regions in the spectrum where data collection or prediction would be unreliable. To exclude these regions, include paths to phase features for your data (--phase_features_path <path>) and a mask indicating the spectrum regions that are supported (--spectra_phase_mask_path <path>). The format for the mask file is a .csv file with columns for the spectrum positions and rows for the phases, with column and row labels in the same order as they appear in the targets and features files.

Reaction

As an alternative to molecule SMILES, Chemprop can also process atom-mapped reaction SMILES (see Daylight manual for details on reaction SMILES), which consist of three parts denoting reactants, agents and products, separated by ">". Use the option --reaction to enable the input of reactions, which transforms the reactants and products of each reaction to the corresponding condensed graph of reaction and changes the initial atom and bond features to hold information from both the reactant and product (option --reaction_mode reac_prod), or from the reactant and the difference upon reaction (option --reaction_mode reac_diff, default) or from the product and the difference upon reaction (option --reaction_mode prod_diff). In reaction mode, Chemprop thus concatenates information to each atomic and bond feature vector, for example, with option --reaction_mode reac_prod, each atomic feature vector holds information on the state of the atom in the reactant (similar to default Chemprop), and concatenates information on the state of the atom in the product, so that the size of the D-MPNN increases slightly. Agents are discarded. Functions incompatible with a reaction as input (scaffold splitting and feature generation) are carried out on the reactants only. If the atom-mapped reaction SMILES contain mapped hydrogens, enable explicit hydrogens via --explicit_h. Example of an atom-mapped reaction SMILES denoting the reaction of methanol to formaldehyde without hydrogens: [CH3:1][OH:2]>>[CH2:1]=[O:2] and with hydrogens: [C:1]([H:3])([H:4])([H:5])[O:2][H:6]>>[C:1]([H:3])([H:4])=[O:2].[H:5][H:6]. The reactions do not need to be balanced and can thus contain unmapped parts, for example leaving groups, if necessary. With reaction modes reac_prod, reac_diff and prod_diff, the atom and bond features of unbalanced aroma are set to zero on the side of the reaction they are not specified. Alternatively, features can be set to the same values on the reactant and product side via the modes reac_prod_balance, reac_diff_balance and prod_diff_balance, which corresponds to a rough balancing of the reaction. For further details and benchmarking, as well as a citable reference, please refer to the article.

Pretraining

Pretraining can be carried out using previously trained checkpoint files to set some or all of the initial values of a model for training. Additionally, some model parameters from the previous model can be frozen in place, so that they will not be updated during training.

Parameters from existing models can be used for parameter-initialization of a new model by providing a checkpoint of the existing model using either

• --checkpoint_dir <dir> Directory where the model checkpoint(s) are saved (i.e. --save_dir during training of the old model). This will walk the directory, and load all .pt files it finds.
• --checkpoint_path <path> Path to a model checkpoint file (.pt file).
• --checkpoint_paths <list of paths> A list of paths to multiple model checkpoint (.pt) files. when training the new model. The model architecture of the new model should resemble the architecture of the old model - otherwise some or all parameters might not be loaded correctly. If any of these options are specified during training, any argument provided with --ensemble_size will be overwritten and the ensemble size will be specified as the number of checkpoint files that were provided, with each submodel in the ensemble using a separate checkpoint file for initialization. When using these options, new model parameters are initialized using the old checkpoint files but all parameters remain trainable (no frozen layers from these arguments).

Certain portions of the model can be loaded from a previous model and frozen so that they will not be trainable, using the various frozen layer parameters. A path to a checkpoint file for frozen parameters is provided with the argument --checkpoint_frzn <path>. If this path is provided, the parameters in the MPNN portion of the model will be specified from the path and frozen. Layers in the FFNN portion of the model can also be applied and frozen in addition to freezing the MPNN using --frzn_ffn_layers <number-of-layers>. Model architecture of the new model should match the old model in any layers that are being frozen, but non-frozen layers can be different without affecting the frozen layers (e.g., MPNN alone is frozen and new model has a larger number of FFNN layers). Parameters provided with --checkpoint_frzn will overwrite initialization parameters from --checkpoint_path (or similar) that are frozen in the new model. At present, only one checkpoint can be provided for the --checkpoint_frzn and those parameters will be used for any number of submodels if --ensemble_size is specified. If multiple molecules (with multiple MPNNs) are being trained in the new model, the default behavior is for both of the new MPNNs to be frozen and drawn from the checkpoint. Only the first MPNN will be frozen and subsequent MPNNs still allowed to train if --freeze_first_only is specified.

Missing Target Values

When training multitask models (models which predict more than one target simultaneously), sometimes not all target values are known for all molecules in the dataset. Chemprop automatically handles missing entries in the dataset by masking out the respective values in the loss function, so that partial data can be utilized, too. The loss function is rescaled according to all non-missing values, and missing values furthermore do not contribute to validation or test errors. Training on partial data is therefore possible and encouraged (versus taking out datapoints with missing target entries). No keyword is needed for this behavior, it is the default.

In contrast, when using sklearn_train.py (a utility script provided within Chemprop that trains standard models such as random forests on Morgan fingerprints via the python package scikit-learn), multi-task models cannot be trained on datasets with partially missing targets. However, one can instead train individual models for each task (via the argument --single_task), where missing values are automatically removed from the dataset. Thus, the training still makes use of all non-missing values, but by training individual models for each task, instead of one model with multiple output values. This restriction only applies to sklearn models (via :code:sklearn_train or :code:python sklearn_train.py), but NOT to default Chemprop models via chemprop_train or python train.py. Alternatively, missing target values can be imputed by specifying --impute_mode <single_task/linear/median/mean/frequent>. The option single_task trains single task sklearn models on each task to predict missing values and is computationally expensive. The option linear trains a stochastic gradient linear model on each target to compute missing targets. Both single_task and linear are applicable to regression and classification task. For regression tasks, the options median and mean furthermore compute the median and mean of the training data. For classification tasks, frequent computes the most frequent value for each task. For all options, models are fitted to non-missing training targets and predict missing training targets. The test set is not affected by imputing.

Weighted Loss Functions in Training

By default, each task in multitask training and each provided datapoint are weighted equally for training. Weights can be specified in either case to allow some tasks in training or some specified data points to be weighted more heavily than others in the training of the model.

Using the --target_weights argument followed by a list of numbers equal in length to the number of tasks in multitask training, different tasks can be given more weight in parameter updates during training. For instance, in a multitask training with two tasks, the argument --target_weights 1 2 would give the second task twice as much weight in model parameter updates. Provided weights must be non-negative. Values are normalized to make the average weight equal 1. Target weights are not used with the validation set for the determination of early stopping or in evaluation of the test set.

Using the --data_weights_path argument followed by a path to a data file containing weights will allow each individual datapoint in the training data to be given different weight in parameter updates. Formatting of this file is similar to provided features CSV files: they should contain only a single column with one header row and a numerical value in each row that corresponds to the order of datapoints provided with --data_path. Data weights should not be provided for validation or test sets if they are provided through the arguments --separate_test_path or --separate_val_path. Provided weights must be non-negative. Values are normalized to make the average weight equal 1. Data weights are not used with the validation set for the determination of early stopping or in evaluation of the test set.

Caching

By default, the molecule objects created from each SMILES string are cached for all dataset sizes, and the graph objects created from each molecule object are cached for datasets up to 10000 molecules. If memory permits, you may use the keyword --cache_cutoff inf to set this cutoff from 10000 to infinity to always keep the generated graphs in cache (or to another integer value for custom behavior). This may speed up training (depending on the dataset size, molecule size, number of epochs and GPU support), since the graphs do not need to be recreated each epoch, but increases memory usage considerably. Below the cutoff, graphs are created sequentially in the first epoch. Above the cutoff, graphs are created in parallel (on --num_workers <int> workers) for each epoch. If training on a GPU, training without caching and creating graphs on the fly in parallel is often preferable. On CPU, training with caching if often preferable for medium-sized datasets and a very low number of CPUs. If a very large dataset causes memory issues, you might turn off caching even of the molecule objects via the commands --no_cache_mol to reduce memory usage further.

Predicting

To load a trained model and make predictions, run predict.py and specify:

• --test_path <path> Path to the data to predict on.
• A checkpoint by using either:
  • --checkpoint_dir <dir> Directory where the model checkpoint(s) are saved (i.e. --save_dir during training). This will walk the directory, load all .pt files it finds, and treat the models as an ensemble.
  • --checkpoint_path <path> Path to a model checkpoint file (.pt file).
• --preds_path Path where a CSV file containing the predictions will be saved.

For example:

chemprop_predict --test_path data/tox21.csv --checkpoint_dir tox21_checkpoints --preds_path tox21_preds.csv

or

chemprop_predict --test_path data/tox21.csv --checkpoint_path tox21_checkpoints/fold_0/model_0/model.pt --preds_path tox21_preds.csv

Predictions made on an ensemble of models will return the average of the individual model predictions. To return the individual model predictions as well, include the --individual_ensemble_predictions argument.

If installed from source, chemprop_predict can be replaced with python predict.py.

Epistemic Uncertainty

One method of obtaining the epistemic uncertainty of a prediction is to calculate the variance of an ensemble of models. To calculate these variances and write them as an additional column in the --preds_path file, use --ensemble_variance. If this flag is used with a spectra prediction, it will instead return the average pairwise SID comparison of the different ensemble predictions.

Encode Fingerprint Latent Representation

To load a trained model and encode the fingerprint latent representation of molecules, run fingerprint.py and specify:

• --test_path <path> Path to the data to predict on.
• A checkpoint by using either:
  • --checkpoint_dir <dir> Directory where the model checkpoint is saved (i.e. --save_dir during training).
  • --checkpoint_path <path> Path to a model checkpoint file (.pt file).
• --preds_path Path where a CSV file containing the encoded fingerprint vectors will be saved.
• Any other arguments that you would supply for a prediction, such as atom or bond features.

Latent representations of molecules are taken from intermediate stages of the prediction model. This latent representation can be taken at the output of the MPNN (default) or from the last input layer of the FFNN, specified using --fingerprint_type <MPN or last_FFN>. Fingerprint encoding uses the same set of arguments as making predictions. If multiple checkpoint files are supplied through --checkpoint_dir, then the fingerprint encodings for each of the models will be provided concatenated together as a longer vector.

Example input:

chemprop_fingerprint --test_path data/tox21.csv --checkpoint_dir tox21_checkpoints --preds_path tox21_fingerprint.csv

or

chemprop_fingerprint --test_path data/tox21.csv --checkpoint_path tox21_checkpoints/fold_0/model_0/model.pt --preds_path tox21_fingerprint.csv

If installed from source, chemprop_fingerprint can be replaced with python fingerprint.py.

Interpreting

It is often helpful to provide explanation of model prediction (i.e., this molecule is toxic because of this substructure). Given a trained model, you can interpret the model prediction using the following command:

chemprop_interpret --data_path data/tox21.csv --checkpoint_dir tox21_checkpoints/fold_0/ --property_id 1

If installed from source, chemprop_interpret can be replaced with python interpret.py.

The output will be like the following:

• The first column is a molecule and second column is its predicted property (in this case NR-AR toxicity).
• The third column is the smallest substructure that made this molecule classified as toxic (which we call rationale).
• The fourth column is the predicted toxicity of that substructure.

As shown in the first row, when a molecule is predicted to be non-toxic, we will not provide any rationale for its prediction.

smiles	NR-AR	rationale	rationale_score
O=[N+]([O-])c1cc(C(F)(F)F)cc([N+](=O)[O-])c1Cl	0.014
CC1(C)O[C@@H]2C[C@H]3[C@@H]4C[C@H](F)C5=CC(=O)C=C[C@]5(C)[C@H]4[C@@H](O)C[C@]3(C)[C@]2(C(=O)CO)O1	0.896	C[C@]12C=CC(=O)C=C1[CH2:1]C[CH2:1][CH2:1]2	0.769
C[C@]12CC[C@H]3[C@@H](CC[C@@]45O[C@@H]4C(O)=C(C#N)C[C@]35C)[C@@H]1CC[C@@H]2O	0.941	C[C@]12C[CH:1]=[CH:1][C@H]3O[C@]31CC[C@@H]1[C@@H]2CC[C:1][CH2:1]1	0.808
C[C@]12C[C@H](O)[C@H]3[C@@H](CCC4=CC(=O)CC[C@@]43C)[C@@H]1CC[C@]2(O)C(=O)COP(=O)([O-])[O-]	0.957	C1C[CH2:1][C:1][C@@H]2[C@@H]1[C@@H]1CC[C:1][C:1]1C[CH2:1]2	0.532

Chemprop's interpretation script explains model prediction one property at a time. --property_id 1 tells the script to provide explanation for the first property in the dataset (which is NR-AR). In a multi-task training setting, you will need to change --property_id to provide explanation for each property in the dataset.

For computational efficiency, we currently restricted the rationale to have maximum 20 atoms and minimum 8 atoms. You can adjust these constraints through --max_atoms and --min_atoms argument.

Please note that the interpreting framework is currently only available for models trained on properties of single molecules, that is, multi-molecule models generated via the --number_of_molecules command are not supported.

TensorBoard

During training, TensorBoard logs are automatically saved to the same directory as the model checkpoints. To view TensorBoard logs, first install TensorFlow with pip install tensorflow. Then run tensorboard --logdir=<dir> where <dir> is the path to the checkpoint directory. Then navigate to http://localhost:6006.

Results

We compared our model against MolNet by Wu et al. on all of the MolNet datasets for which we could reproduce their splits (all but Bace, Toxcast, and qm7). When there was only one fold provided (scaffold split for BBBP and HIV), we ran our model multiple times and reported average performance. In each case we optimize hyperparameters on separate folds, use rdkit_2d_normalized features when useful, and compare to the best-performing model in MolNet as reported by Wu et al. We did not ensemble our model in these results.

Results on regression datasets (lower is better)

Dataset	Size	Metric	Ours	MolNet Best Model
QM8	21,786	MAE	0.011 ± 0.000	0.0143 ± 0.0011
QM9	133,885	MAE	2.666 ± 0.006	2.4 ± 1.1
ESOL	1,128	RMSE	0.555 ± 0.047	0.58 ± 0.03
FreeSolv	642	RMSE	1.075 ± 0.054	1.15 ± 0.12
Lipophilicity	4,200	RMSE	0.555 ± 0.023	0.655 ± 0.036
PDBbind (full)	9,880	RMSE	1.391 ± 0.012	1.25 ± 0
PDBbind (core)	168	RMSE	2.173 ± 0.090	1.92 ± 0.07
PDBbind (refined)	3,040	RMSE	1.486 ± 0.026	1.38 ± 0

Results on classification datasets (higher is better)

Dataset	Size	Metric	Ours	MolNet Best Model
PCBA	437,928	PRC-AUC	0.335 ± 0.001	0.136 ± 0.004
MUV	93,087	PRC-AUC	0.041 ± 0.007	0.184 ± 0.02
HIV	41,127	ROC-AUC	0.776 ± 0.007	0.792 ± 0
BBBP	2,039	ROC-AUC	0.737 ± 0.001	0.729 ± 0
Tox21	7,831	ROC-AUC	0.851 ± 0.002	0.829 ± 0.006
SIDER	1,427	ROC-AUC	0.676 ± 0.014	0.648 ± 0.009
ClinTox	1,478	ROC-AUC	0.864 ± 0.017	0.832 ± 0.037

Lastly, you can find the code to our original repo at https://github.com/wengong-jin/chemprop and for the Mayr et al. baseline at https://github.com/yangkevin2/lsc_experiments .