{
  "id": 515856,
  "title": "Is safe to abstract the competition in this way?",
  "url": "/competitions/leash-BELKA/discussion/515856",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2024-06-30T11:09:09.610243300Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>If I want to simply explain the competition to a 10 year old can I just say: \"You have a classification dataset of molecules and protein where target variable is binding affinity that is if molecule binds with protein. The molecules and protein are represented in a format called SMILES. You just have to use a method to represent SMILES format molecules into format in which ML algorithms can use and then predict affinity based on this format\" ?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "2897252",
      "postDate": "06/30/2024 11:09:09",
      "content": "<p>If I want to simply explain the competition to a 10 year old can I just say: \"You have a classification dataset of molecules and protein where target variable is binding affinity that is if molecule binds with protein. The molecules and protein are represented in a format called SMILES. You just have to use a method to represent SMILES format molecules into format in which ML algorithms can use and then predict affinity based on this format\" ?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "If I want to simply explain the competition to a 10 year old can I just say: \"You have a classification dataset of molecules and protein where target variable is binding affinity that is if molecule binds with protein. The molecules and protein are represented in a format called SMILES. You just have to use a method to represent SMILES format molecules into format in which ML algorithms can use and then predict affinity based on this format\" ?",
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    {
      "id": "2897970",
      "postDate": "06/30/2024 19:53:06",
      "content": "<p>One bit that is not correct is that the target proteins are not represented as SMILES.  The small molecules are represented as SMILES, and apart from the name of the protein, no other representation is provided.  There are other resources to find representations of the proteins, but my guess is they aren't being used much.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "One bit that is not correct is that the target proteins are not represented as SMILES.  The small molecules are represented as SMILES, and apart from the name of the protein, no other representation is provided.  There are other resources to find representations of the proteins, but my guess is they aren't being used much.",
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    {
      "id": 2897970,
      "author_name": "kirkdco",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/30/2024 19:53:06",
      "content": "<p>One bit that is not correct is that the target proteins are not represented as SMILES.  The small molecules are represented as SMILES, and apart from the name of the protein, no other representation is provided.  There are other resources to find representations of the proteins, but my guess is they aren't being used much.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    "2897252": "If I want to simply explain the competition to a 10 year old can I just say: \"You have a classification dataset of molecules and protein where target variable is binding affinity that is if molecule binds with protein. The molecules and protein are represented in a format called SMILES. You just have to use a method to represent SMILES format molecules into format in which ML algorithms can use and then predict affinity based on this format\" ?",
    "2897970": "One bit that is not correct is that the target proteins are not represented as SMILES.  The small molecules are represented as SMILES, and apart from the name of the protein, no other representation is provided.  There are other resources to find representations of the proteins, but my guess is they aren't being used much."
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