Research Goal
The CHEMIF.PTML LAB lead, by Prof Humbert G Díaz (PI) and Prof Sonia Arrasate (Co-PI), offers Cheminformatics Expert Consulting, User-Friendly Software Development, and Tailored Data Analysis solutions. Our algorithms/software may reduce partners/clients experimental research and/or production costs in terms of material resources, laboratory animals, and time. Our team include researchers and students from IKERBASQUE, UPV/EHU, and Biofisika, Bilbao, and UDC Coruña. The principal tools used in our group are the result of combining Cheminformatics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. We put special emphasis on the use of Cheminformatics Information Fusion and Perturbation-Theory Machine Learning (CHEMIF.PTML) method developed
and published by our group. Our partners/clients are mainly, but not limited to, Biophysics, Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering Industry and Research centers. We can work with experimental research and industrial partner consortia or clients to detect their data analysis problem and formulate the problem in cheminformatics data analysis terms in order to train and validate an AI/ML predictive model. Next, we can develop and release (transference) a user-friendly AI/ML software tailored for the client necessities. Some of our previous partners/clients are Repsol-Petronor, Tecnalia, Gaiker, Tekniker, Biodonostia, DIPC, etc. We have published more than 200 JCR research papers, supervised more than 10 PhD theses, edited more than 20 Journals/Special issues, and developed more than 10 research software packages. We have also given consulting services (contract or pro-bono).
Group members
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Humbert González-Díaz
Ikerbasque Research Professor -
Maider Baltasar Marchueta
PhD Student -
Gerardo Maikel Casañola
PhD Student -
Estefanía Ascencio
PhD Student -
Enrique Barreiro
PhD Student -
Andrea Ruiz Escudero
PhD Student -
Brenda de La Caridad Fundora
PhD Student -
Gabriel Mazon
PhD Student -
Ernesto Contreras-Torres
PhD Student -
Emilia Vasquez
PhD Student -
Galo Leonardo
PhD Student
Publications
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AQUA Tox: A web tool for predicting aquatic toxicity in rotifer species using intrinsic explainable models
J Hazard Mater. 2025 Jul 15;492:138050. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.138050. Epub 2025 Mar 25. PMID: 40157185. -
Drug Release Nanoparticle Systems Design: Dataset Compilation and Machine Learning Modeling
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 5290 - 5306 -
First report on Quantitative Structure-Toxicity Relationship modeling approaches for predicting acute toxicity of organic chemicals against rotifer species
Sci Total Environ. 2025 May 15;977:179350. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179350. Epub 2025 Apr 10. PMID: 40215635. -
IFPTML Multi-output Modelling for Anti-Retroviral Compounds Including Drug Structure and Target Protein Sequences Information
J Chem Inf Model. 2025 May 12;65(9):4353-4366. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c00242. Epub 2025 Apr 28. PMID: 40293160. -
Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Drug-Like Molecules Targeting Calmodulin Pathway Proteins
J Chem Inf Model. 2025 Nov 10;65(21):11892-11907. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c02111. Epub 2025 Oct 22. PMID: 41125631; PMCID: PMC12606648. -
PTML models of self assembled ligand free nanoparticle catalysts for cross coupling reactions
Sci Rep. 2025 Aug 14;15(1):29895. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-14080-2. PMID: 40813882; PMCID: PMC12354725. -
Artificial Intelligence-Driven Modeling for Hydrogel Three-Dimensional Printing: Computational and Experimental Cases of Study
Polymers (Basel). 2025 Jan 6;17(1):121. doi: 10.3390/polym17010121. PMID: 39795524; PMCID: PMC11723248. -
IFE.PTML: Advancing Neurotherapeutic Nanoparticle Release-System Design for Enhanced Brain Delivery
Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 2025 6 035065. Doi: 10.1088/2632-2153/ae038a -
Implementation of IFPTML Computational Models in Drug Discovery Against Flaviviridae Family
J Chem Inf Model. 2024 Mar 25;64(6):1841-1852. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01796. Epub 2024 Mar 11. PMID: 38466369; PMCID: PMC10966645. -
OptiMo-LDLr: An Integrated In Silico Model with Enhanced Predictive Power for LDL Receptor Variants, Unraveling Hot Spot Pathogenic Residues
Adv Sci (Weinh). 2024 Jan 23:e2305177. doi: 10.1002/advs.202305177. -
Identification of Riluzole derivatives as novel calmodulin inhibitors with neuroprotective activity by a joint synthesis, biosensor, and computational guided strategy.
Biomed Pharmacother. 2024 Apr 17;174:116602 -
MATEO: InterMolecular α-Amidoalkylation Theoretical Enantioselectivity Optimization. Online Tool for Selection and Design of Chiral Catalysts and Products
J Cheminform 16, 9. 2024. Doi:10.1186/s13321-024-00802-7 -
Towards rational nanomaterial design by predicting drug–nanoparticle system interaction vs. bacterial metabolic networks
Environ. Sci.: Nano, Advance Article (2022) doi:10.1039/D1EN00967B -
Prediction of Antileishmanial Compounds: General Model, Preparation, and Evaluation of 2-Acylpyrrole Derivatives
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2022), doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00731 -
Multi-output chemometrics model for gasoline compounding
Fuel, Volume 310, Part A, 122274 (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2021.122274 -
MLb-LDLr: A Machine Learning Model for Predicting the Pathogenicity of LDL receptor Missense Variants
Atherosclerosis 331 (2021) e3, (2021) doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2021.06.013 -
Towards Machine Learning Discovery of Dual Antibacterial Drug-Nanoparticle Systems.
Nanoscale, 2021,13, 17854-17870, (2021) doi: 10.1039/D1NR04178A -
IFPTML mapping of nanoparticle antibacterial activity vs. pathogen metabolic networks.
Nanoscale, 2021,13, 1318-1330, (2021) doi: 10.1039/D0NR07588D -
Palladium-mediated Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of C-10b substituted Dihydropyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinolines as Antileishmanial Agents.
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 220 (2021) 113458, (2021) doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2021.113458 -
Synthesis, Pharmacological, and Biological Evaluation of 2-Furoyl-Based MIF-1 Peptidomimetics and the Development of a General-Purpose Model for Allosteric Modulators (ALLOPTML)
ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2021, 12, 1, 203–215, (2021) doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00687 -
Predicting coated-nanoparticle drug release systems with perturbation-theory machine learning (PTML) models
Nanoscale. (25):13471-13483 (2020). doi: 10.1039/d0nr01849j. (2020) -
Designing nanoparticle release systems for drug-vitamin cancer co-therapy with multiplicative perturbation-theory machine learning (PTML) models
Nanoscale. 11(45):21811-21823. (2019) doi: 10.1039/c9nr05070a. (2019) -
Big Data Challenges Targeting Proteins in GPCR Signaling Pathways; Combining PTML-ChEMBL Models and [35S]GTP?S Binding Assays
ACS Chem Neurosci. 10(11):4476-4491. (2019) doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.9b0030 (2019) -
QSAR-Co: An Open Source Software for Developing Robust Multitasking or Multitarget Classification-Based QSAR Models
J CHEM INF MODEL. 2019 Jun 24;59(6):2538-2544. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00295 -
PTML Model of Enzyme Subclasses for Mining the Proteome of Biofuel Producing Microorganisms
J PROTEOME RES. 2019 Jul 5;18(7):2735-2746. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.8b00949 -
Perturbation-Theory Machine Learning (PTML) Multilabel Model of the ChEMBL Dataset of Preclinical Assays for Antisarcoma Compounds
ACS Omega. 5(42):27211-27220. (2020) doi: 10.1021/acsomega.0c03356. (2020) -
Chromosome Gene Orientation Inversion Networks (GOINs) of Plasmodium Proteome
J PROTEOME RES. 2018 Mar 2;17(3):1258-1268. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00861 -
Polymerase Chain Reaction. Perturbation Theory and Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence-Experimental Microbiome Analysis: Applications to Ancient DNA and Tree Soil Metagenomics Cases of Study
Adv. Intell. Syst. 2026, e202500587. DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202500587E.