Classification of alkaloids according to the starting substances of their biosynthetic pathways using graph convolutional neural networks

Abstract Background Alkaloids, a class of organic compounds that contain nitrogen bases, are mainly synthesized as secondary metabolites in plants and fungi, and they have a wide range of bioactivities. Although there are thousands of compounds in this class, few of their biosynthesis pathways are f...

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Main Authors: Ryohei Eguchi, Naoaki Ono, Aki Hirai Morita, Tetsuo Katsuragi, Satoshi Nakamura, Ming Huang, Md. Altaf-Ul-Amin, Shigehiko Kanaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-07-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-019-2963-6