Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics

Description

Accelerating drug discovery and chemical safety using artificial intelligence, automation and intelligent design of experiments.

The Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics research group, headed by Professor Ola Spjuth, focuses on data-driven drug discovery and chemical safety. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers with a vision to develop autonomous biological laboratories where data drives decisions on what experiments should be performednext, and where automation and AI modeling are core methodologies. We combine in silico and in vitro experiments at the cellular level, and have access to a robotized high-content imaging lab connected to a modern IT-infrastructure to manage and analyze large-scale data

Examples of applications include elucidating mechanism-of-action and safety for novel chemical compounds and screening for new and repurposed drugs. Of particular interest to us is to develop and use autonomous systems integrating laboratory equipment with AI for iterative discovery to tackle previously infeasible problems. Here, ongoing projects include searching for optimal individualized drug combinations in precision cancer medicine, and also identifying synergistic combinations of environmental chemicals. We are involved in several national and international consortia and have a tight connection to the pharmaceutical industry, Uppsala University Hospital, and Science for Life Laboratory.

Publications

Associations of PFAS and OH-PCBs with risk of multiple sclerosis onset and disability worsening

Vaivade, Aina; Erngren, Ida; Carlsson, Henrik; Freyhult, Eva et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2025
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From pixels to phenotypes: Integrating image-based profiling with cell health data as BioMorph features improves interpretability

Seal, Srijit; Carreras-Puigvert, Jordi; Singh, Shantanu; Carpenter, Anne E. et al.

Part of Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2024
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New approach methods to assess developmental and adult neurotoxicity for regulatory use: a PARC work package 5 project

Tal, Tamara; Myhre, Oddvar; Fritsche, Ellen; Rüegg, Joëlle et al.

Part of Frontiers in Toxicology, 2024
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Artificial intelligence for high content imaging in drug discovery

Carreras-Puigvert, Jordi; Spjuth, Ola

Part of Current opinion in structural biology, 2024
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CPSign: Conformal Prediction for Cheminformatics Modeling

Arvidsson McShane, Staffan; Norinder, Ulf; Alvarsson, Jonathan; Ahlberg, Ernst et al.

Part of Journal of Cheminformatics, 2024
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Improved Detection of Drug-Induced Liver Injury by Integrating Predicted In Vivo and In Vitro Data

Seal, Srijit; Williams, Dominic; Hosseini-Gerami, Layla; Mahale, Manas et al.

Part of Chemical Research in Toxicology, p. 1290-1305, 2024
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Data management of scientific applications in a reinforcement learning-based hierarchical storage system

Zhang, Tianru; Gupta, Ankit; Francisco Rodríguez, María Andreína; Spjuth, Ola et al.

Part of Expert systems with applications, 2024
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Federated learning for predicting compound mechanism of action based on image-data from cell painting

Ju, Li; Hellander, Andreas; Spjuth, Ola

Part of Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences, 2024
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Insights into Drug Cardiotoxicity from Biological and Chemical Data: The First Public Classifiers for FDA Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity Rank

Seal, Srijit; Spjuth, Ola; Hosseini-Gerami, Layla; Garcia-Ortegon, Miguel et al.

Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 1172-1186, 2024
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Disease phenotype prediction in multiple sclerosis

Herman, Stephanie; Arvidsson McShane, Staffan; Zhukovsky, Christina; Emami, Payam et al.

Part of iScience, 2023
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Combining molecular and cell painting image data for mechanism of action prediction

Tian, Guangyan; Harrison, Philip J.; Sreenivasan, Akshai P.; Carreras-Puigvert, Jordi et al.

Part of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE LIFE SCIENCES, 2023
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Designing microplate layouts using artificial intelligence

Francisco Rodríguez, María Andreína; Carreras-Puigvert, Jordi; Spjuth, Ola

Part of Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences, 2023
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In Silico Prediction of Human Clinical Pharmacokinetics with ANDROMEDA by Prosilico: Predictions for an Established Benchmarking Data Set, a Modern Small Drug Data Set, and a Comparison with Laboratory Methods

Fagerholm, Urban; Hellberg, Sven; Alvarsson, Jonathan; Spjuth, Ola

Part of ATLA (Alternatives to Laboratory Animals), p. 39-54, 2023
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Development of new approach methods for the identification and characterization of endocrine metabolic disruptors: a PARC project

Braeuning, Albert; Balaguer, Patrick; Bourguet, William; Carreras-Puigvert, Jordi et al.

Part of Frontiers in Toxicology, 2023
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Evaluating the utility of brightfield image data for mechanism of action prediction

Harrison, Philip John; Gupta, Ankit; Rietdijk, Jonne; Wieslander, Håkan et al.

Part of PloS Computational Biology, 2023
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Merging bioactivity predictions from cell morphology and chemical fingerprint models using similarity to training data

Seal, Srijit; Yang, Hongbin; Trapotsi, Maria-Anna; Singh, Satvik et al.

Part of Journal of Cheminformatics, 2023
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Predicting protein network topology clusters from chemical structure using deep learning

Sreenivasan, Akshai P.; Harrison, Philip J; Schaal, Wesley; Matuszewski, Damian J. et al.

Part of Journal of Cheminformatics, 2022
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In silico predictions of the human pharmacokinetics/toxicokinetics of 65 chemicals from various classes using conformal prediction methodology

Fagerholm, Urban; Hellberg, Sven; Alvarsson, Jonathan; Spjuth, Ola

Part of Xenobiotica, p. 113-118, 2022
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From biomedical cloud platforms to microservices: next steps in FAIR data and analysis

Sheffield, Nathan C.; Bonazzi, Vivien R.; Bourne, Philip E.; Burdett, Tony et al.

Part of Scientific Data, 2022
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Migrating to Long-Read Sequencing for Clinical Routine BCR-ABL1 TKI Resistance Mutation Screening

Schaal, Wesley; Ameur, Adam; Olsson-Strömberg, Ulla; Hermansson, Monica et al.

Part of Cancer Informatics, p. 1-8, 2022
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Estimating diagnostic uncertainty in artificial intelligence assisted pathology using conformal prediction

Olsson, Henrik; Kartasalo, Kimmo; Mulliqi, Nita; Capuccini, Marco et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2022
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Morphological profiling of environmental chemicals enables efficient and untargeted exploration of combination effects

Rietdijk, Jonne; Aggarwal, Tanya; Georgiev, Polina; Lapins, Maris et al.

Part of Science of the Total Environment, 2022
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In Silico Predictions of the Gastrointestinal Uptake of Macrocycles in Man Using Conformal Prediction Methodology

Fagerholm, Urban; Hellberg, Sven; Alvarsson, Jonathan; Spjuth, Ola

Part of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, p. 2614-2619, 2022
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An Open-Source Modular Framework for Automated Pipetting and Imaging Applications

Ouyang, Wei; Bowman, Richard W; Wang, Haoran; Bumke, Kaspar E et al.

Part of Advanced biology, 2022
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Integrating cell morphology with gene expression and chemical structure to aid mitochondrial toxicity detection

Seal, Srijit; Carreras-Puigvert, Jordi; Trapotsi, Maria-Anna; Yang, Hongbin et al.

Part of Communications Biology, 2022
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SimVec: predicting polypharmacy side effects for new drugs

Lukashina, Nina; Kartysheva, Elena; Spjuth, Ola; Virko, Elizaveta et al.

Part of Journal of Cheminformatics, 2022
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A method for Boolean analysis of protein interactions at a molecular level

Raykova, Doroteya; Kermpatsou, Despoina; Malmqvist, Tony; Harrison, Philip J et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2022
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The Impact of Reference Data Selection for the Prediction Accuracy of Intrinsic Hepatic Metabolic Clearance

Fagerholm, Urban; Spjuth, Ola; Hellberg, Sven

Part of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, p. 2645-2649, 2022
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Synergy Conformal Prediction

Gauraha, Niharika; Spjuth, Ola

Part of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, p. 91-119, 2021
ELIXIR and Toxicology: a community in development

Martens, Marvin; Stierum, Rob; Schymanski, Emma L.; Evelo, Chris T. et al.

Part of F1000 Research, p. 1129-1129, 2021
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Assessing the calibration in toxicological in vitro models with conformal prediction

Morger, Andrea; Svensson, Fredrik; Arvidsson McShane, Staffan; Gauraha, Niharika et al.

Part of Journal of Cheminformatics, 2021
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Synergy conformal prediction applied to large-scale bioactivity datasets and in federated learning

Norinder, Ulf; Spjuth, Ola; Svensson, Fredrik

Part of Journal of Cheminformatics, 2021
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The machine learning life cycle and the cloud: implications for drug discovery.

Spjuth, Ola; Frid, Jens; Hellander, Andreas

Part of Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, p. 1071-1079, 2021
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scConnect: a method for exploratory analysis of cell–cell communication based on single-cell RNA-sequencing data

Jakobsson, Jon E. T.; Spjuth, Ola; Lagerström, Malin C.

Part of Bioinformatics, p. 3501-3508, 2021
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Rapid development of cloud-native intelligent data pipelines for scientific data streams using the HASTE Toolkit

Blamey, Ben; Toor, Salman; Dahlö, Martin; Wieslander, Håkan et al.

Part of GigaScience, p. 1-14, 2021
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Machine Learning Strategies When Transitioning between Biological Assays

Arvidsson McShane, Staffan; Ahlberg, Ernst; Noeske, Tobias; Spjuth, Ola

Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 3722-3733, 2021
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In silico prediction of volume of distribution of drugs in man using conformal prediction performs on par with animal data-based models

Fagerholm, Urban; Hellberg, Sven; Alvarsson, Jonathan; Arvidsson McShane, Staffan et al.

Part of Xenobiotica, p. 1366-1371, 2021
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Comparison between lab variability and in silico prediction errors for the unbound fraction of drugs in human plasma

Fagerholm, Urban; Spjuth, Ola; Hellberg, Sven

Part of Xenobiotica, p. 1095-1100, 2021
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Integrating Statistical and Machine-Learning Approach for Meta-Analysis of Bisphenol A-Exposure Datasets Reveals Effects on Mouse Gene Expression within Pathways of Apoptosis and Cell Survival

Lukashina, Nina; Williams, Michael J.; Kartysheva, Elena; Virko, Elizaveta et al.

Part of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021
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Advances in Predictions of Oral Bioavailability of Candidate Drugs in Man with New Machine Learning Methodology

Fagerholm, Urban; Hellberg, Sven; Spjuth, Ola

Part of Molecules, 2021
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Metabolomics: The Stethoscope for the Twenty-First Century

Ashrafian, Hutan; Sounderajah, Viknesh; Glen, Robert; Ebbels, Timothy et al.

Part of Medical principles and practice, p. 301-310, 2021
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Deep-learning models for lipid nanoparticle-based drug delivery

Harrison, Philip J.; Wieslander, Håkan; Sabirsh, Alan; Karlsson, Johan et al.

Part of Nanomedicine, p. 1097-1110, 2021
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A phenomics approach for antiviral drug discovery

Rietdijk, Jonne; Tampere, Marianna; Pettke, Aleksandra; Georgiev, Polina et al.

Part of BMC Biology, 2021
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Approaches for containerized scientific workflows in cloud environments with applications in life science

Spjuth, Ola; Capuccini, Marco; Carone, Matteo; Larsson, Anders et al.

Part of F1000 Research, p. 513-513, 2021
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Deep learning and conformal prediction for hierarchical analysis of large-scale whole-slide tissue images

Wieslander, Håkan; Harrison, Philip J.; Skogberg, Gabriel; Jackson, Sonya et al.

Part of IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, p. 371-380, 2021
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Predicting target profiles with confidence as a service using docking scores

Ahmed, Laeeq; Alogheli, Hiba; Arvidsson Mc Shane, Staffan; Alvarsson, Jonathan et al.

Part of Journal of Cheminformatics, 2020
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MaRe: Processing Big Data with application containers on Apache Spark

Capuccini, Marco; Dahlö, Martin; Toor, Salman; Spjuth, Ola

Part of GigaScience, 2020
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Using Predicted Bioactivity Profiles to Improve Predictive Modeling

Norinder, Ulf; Spjuth, Ola; Svensson, Fredrik

Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 2830-2837, 2020
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SciPipe - Turning Scientific Workflows into Computer Programs

Lampa, Samuel; Dahlö, Martin; Alvarsson, Jonathan; Spjuth, Ola

Part of Computing in science & engineering (Print), p. 109-113, 2019
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Biochemical Differences in Cerebrospinal Fluid between Secondary Progressive and Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Herman, Stephanie; Åkerfeldt, Torbjörn; Spjuth, Ola; Burman, Joachim et al.

Part of Cells, 2019
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