Activity molecule against HIV infection

now comes the real challenge !

The idea of the challenge is to predict which compounds are active or inactive (Binary Classification) against the AIDS HIV infection.

DataSets and instructions

This challenge relies on the HIVA dataset.

This version of the database was prepared for the WCCI 2006 performance prediction challenge and the IJCNN 2007 agnostic learning vs. prior knowledge challenge by Isabelle Guyon. A data block contains (several blocks per file) : a header block (molecule name, dimension, program name, date...), a connection table, a data block (atom and bound blocks) and a terminator line.

Features describe chemical structural data for 42,390 compounds was obtained from the web page. It was converted to structural features. The 1617 features selected include :

   - unbranched fragments : 750 features
   - pharmacophores : 495 features
   - branched fragments : 219 features
   - internal fingerprints : 132 features

We provide the dataset in two different format :

• "Agnostic" learning track datasets (the one describe above): The data are preprocessed in a feature representation as close as possible to the raw data. You will have no knowledge of what the features are, so no opportunity to use knowledge about the task to improve your method. You should use a completely self contained learning machines and not use information disclosed to the "prior knowledge track" participants about the nature of the data..

• "Prior knowledge" track datasets. The data are in their original format and you have access to all the information about what it is. Make use of this information to create learning machines that are smarter than those trained on the agnostic data: better feature extraction, better kernels, etc.

During the challenge, you'll only have access to labeled training data and unlabeled validation and test data. If you want to compare yourselves with the others participants, you can make a submission and you'll have the score for the valid dataset. The score for the test set will be displayed only the day of the challenge.

EVALUATION

 The submission will be evaluated using the Balanced Accuaracy (BAC)


Undestanding BAC

BAC: Balanced accuracy, which is the average of class-wise accuracy for classification problems (or the average of sensitivity (true positive rate) and specificity (true negative rate) for the special case of binary classification). For binary classification problems, the class-wise accuracy is the fraction of correct class predictions when qi is thresholded at 0.5, for each class. The class-wise accuracy is averaged over all classes for multi-label problems. For multi-class classification problems, the predictions are binarized by selecting the class with maximum prediction value argmaxk qik before computing the class-wise accuracy. We normalize the BAC with the formula BAC := (BAC-R)/(1-R), where R is the expected value of BAC for random predictions (i.e. R=0.5 for binary classification and R=(1/C) for C-class classification problems).

If P >> N, b_acc is good. . During the development period, the ranking is performed according to the validation BAC.

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Submission

In order to submit your results, go to "Participate". We provide a starting kit, which is an example of submission (you have to submit the .zip). If you want that the platform re-computes the prediction when you make a submission, you have to remove all the files ".predict" in the result directory. You can also pre-calculate the results and put them in the result directory (follow the jupyter notebook ReadMe).

Get the starting kit and the data

You can find the two datasets(orginal dataset and preprocessed dataset), and a starting kit here: Download Here !!

Good luck !

Activity molecule against HIV infection

The main goal of this challenge is to be familiar with machine learning algorithms. No prizes will be awarded.

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Submissions must be submitted before the 30th April 2017.  You may submit 5 submissions every day and 100 in total.