Sousa, Inês J.Padrón, José M.Fernandes, Miguel X.2023-02-102023-02-102013Sousa, I. J., Padrón, J. M., & Fernandes, M. X. (2013). Generation of artificial neural networks models in anticancer study. Neural Computing and Applications, 23, 577-582.http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/5026Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have several applications; one of them is the prediction of biological activity. Here, ANNs were applied to a set of 32 compounds with anticancer activity assayed experimentally against two cancer cell lines (A2780 and T-47D). Using training and test sets, the obtained correlation coefficients between experimental and calculated values of activity, for A2780, were 0.804 and 0.829, respectively, and for T-47D, we got 0.820 for the training set and 0.927 for the test set. Com paring multiple linear regression and ANN models, the latter were better suited in establishing relationships between compounds’ structure and their anticancer activity.engBackpropagation algorithmCorrelation coefficientsHeuristicsLearning algorithmsMachine learningNeural network modelsNonlinear modelsPrediction methodsRadial base function network.Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenhariajournal article10.1007/s00521-013-1404-0