SynRBL: Synthesis Rebalancing Framework

SynRBL is a toolkit tailored for computational chemistry, aimed at correcting imbalances in chemical reactions. It employs a dual strategy: a rule-based method for adjusting non-carbon elements and an mcs-based (maximum common substructure) technique for carbon element adjustments.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing
• License
• Acknowledgments

Installation

The easiest way to use SynRBL is by installing the PyPI package synrbl.

Follow these steps to setup a working environment. Please ensure you have Python 3.11 or later installed on your system.

Prerequisites

The requirements are automatically installed with the pip package.

• Python 3.11
• rdkit >= 2023.9.4
• joblib >= 1.3.2
• seaborn >= 0.13.2
• xgboost >= 2.0.3
• scikit_learn == 1.4.0
• imbalanced_learn >= 0.12.0
• reportlab >= 4.1.0
• fgutils >= 0.1.3

Step-by-Step Installation Guide

1. Python Installation: Ensure that Python 3.11 or later is installed on your system. You can download it from python.org.

2. Creating a Virtual Environment (Optional but Recommended): It's recommended to use a virtual environment to avoid conflicts with other projects or system-wide packages. Use the following commands to create and activate a virtual environment:

python -m venv synrbl-env
source synrbl-env/bin/activate  # On Windows use `synrbl-env\Scripts\activate`

Or Conda

conda create --name synrbl-env python=3.11
conda activate synrbl-env

3. Install with pip:

pip install synrbl

4. Verify Installation: After installation, you can verify that SynRBL is correctly installed by running a simple test.

python -c "from synrbl import Balancer; bal = Balancer(n_jobs=1); print(bal.rebalance('CC(=O)OCC>>CC(=O)O'))"

Usage

Use in script

from synrbl import Balancer

smiles = (
  "COC(=O)[C@H](CCCCNC(=O)OCc1ccccc1)NC(=O)Nc1cc(OC)cc(C(C)(C)C)c1O>>"
  + "COC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)Nc1cc(OC)cc(C(C)(C)C)c1O"
)
synrbl = Balancer()

results = synrbl.rebalance(smiles, output_dict=True)
>> [{
      "reaction": "COC(=O)[C@H](CCCCNC(=O)OCc1ccccc1)NC(=O)Nc1cc(OC)cc(C(C)(C)C)c1O.O>>"
      + "COC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)Nc1cc(OC)cc(C(C)(C)C)c1O.O=C(O)OCc1ccccc1",
      "solved": True,
      "input_reaction": "COC(=O)[C@H](CCCCNC(=O)OCc1ccccc1)NC(=O)Nc1cc(OC)cc(C(C)(C)C)c1O>>"
      + "COC(=O)[C@H](CCCCN)NC(=O)Nc1cc(OC)cc(C(C)(C)C)c1O",
      "issue": "",
      "rules": ["append O when next to O or N", "default single bond"],
      "solved_by": "mcs-based",
      "confidence": 0.999,
  }]

Use in command line

echo "id,reaction\n0,CC(=O)OCC>>CC(=O)O" > unbalanced.csv
python -m synrbl run -o balanced.csv unbalanced.csv

Benchmark your own dataset

Prepare your dataset as a csv file datafile with a column reaction of unbalanced reaction SMILES and a column expected_reaction containing the expected balanced reactions.

Rebalance the reactions and forward the expected reactions column to the output.

python -m synrbl run -o balanced.csv --col <reaction> --out-columns <expected_reaction> <datafile>

After rebalancing you can use the benchmark command to compute the success and accuracy rates of your dataset. Keep in mind that an exact comparison between rebalanced and expected reaction is a highly conservative evaluation. An unbalance reaction might have multiple equaly viable balanced solutions. Besides the exact comparison (default) the benchmark command supports a few similarity measures like ECFP and pathway fingerprints for the comparison between rebalanced reaction and the expected balanced reaction.

python -m synrbl benchmark --col <reaction> --target-col <expected_reaction> balanced.csv

Reproduce benchmark results from validation set

To test SynRBL on the provided validation set use the following commands. Run these commands from the root of the cloned repository.

Rebalance the dataset

python -m synrbl run -o validation_set_balanced.csv --out-columns expected_reaction ./Data/Validation_set/validation_set.csv

and compute the benchmark results

python -m synrbl benchmark validation_set_balanced.csv

Contributing

• Tieu-Long Phan
• Klaus Weinbauer

License

This project is licensed under MIT License - see the License file for details.

Publication

Reaction rebalancing: a novel approach to curating reaction databases

Citation

@Article{Phan2024,
  author={Phan, Tieu-Long and Weinbauer, Klaus and G{\"a}rtner, Thomas and Merkle, 
    Daniel and Andersen, Jakob L. and Fagerberg, Rolf and Stadler, Peter F.},
  title={Reaction rebalancing: a novel approach to curating reaction databases},
  journal={Journal of Cheminformatics},
  year={2024},
  month={Jul},
  day={19},
  volume={16},
  number={1},
  pages={82},
  issn={1758-2946},
  doi={10.1186/s13321-024-00875-4},
  url={https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-024-00875-4}
}

Acknowledgments

This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon Europe Doctoral Network programme under the Marie-Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101072930 (TACsy -- Training Alliance for Computational)