The application of gaussian processes in the predictions of permeability across mammalian membranes

  • Authors:
  • Yi Sun;Marc B. Brown;Maria Prapopoulou;Rod Adams;Neil Davey;Gary P. Moss

  • Affiliations:
  • Science and technology research school, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom;School of Pharmacy, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom;School of Pharmacy, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom;Science and technology research school, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom;Science and technology research school, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom;School of Pharmacy, Keele University, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • ICANN'12 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The problem of predicting the rate of percutaneous absorption of a drug is an important issue with the increasing use of the skin as a means of moderating and controlling drug delivery. The aim of the current study was to explore whether including another species skin data in a training set can improve predictions of the human skin permeability coefficient. Permeability data for absorption across rodent skin was collected from the literature. The Gaussian process model was applied to the data, and this was compared to two QSPR methods. The results demonstrate that data from non-human skin can provide useful information in the prediction of the permeability of human skin.