Human intestinal absorption from structure
Classify whether an orally administered drug is absorbed from the human intestine, scored by AUROC on TDC’s scaffold split.
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| 1 | +# Human intestinal absorption from structure | |
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| 3 | +A pill only works if the gut lets the drug through. This benchmark asks, from the structure alone, whether a compound is absorbed from the human gastrointestinal tract into the bloodstream. | |
| 4 | + | |
| 5 | +## Task | |
| 6 | + | |
| 7 | +Given a drug as a SMILES string, predict the binary human intestinal absorption (HIA) label: $1$ for absorbed, $0$ for not. Submissions are scored by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC), which is the probability that a randomly chosen positive compound is ranked above a randomly chosen negative one, so higher is better. | |
| 8 | + | |
| 9 | +## Background | |
| 10 | + | |
| 11 | +Hou et al. (2007) compiled the HIA set as part of a series of ADME evaluation studies, labelling compounds by whether oral absorption exceeded a threshold. TDC includes its 578 drugs in the ADMET group, where it is one of the smallest and most skewed classification tasks: about 87% of the compounds are absorbed. It is useful less as a hard prediction problem than as a check that a model does not fall over on a small, imbalanced set. | |
| 12 | + | |
| 13 | +## Data and evaluation | |
| 14 | + | |
| 15 | +TDC ships the group as one archive (`admet_group`, Harvard Dataverse file 4426004), loaded with | |
| 16 | +`admet_group(path='data/')` from the `tdc.benchmark_group` module. The group’s `hia_hou` folder holds 461 `train_val` and 117 `test` rows (578 drugs, matching TDC’s page); 86.5% of all labels are positive, and 90 of the 117 test compounds are. | |
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| 18 | +The split is a scaffold split: TDC holds out a fixed 20% test set (here 117 of 578 rows in | |
| 19 | +the group’s files), and the remaining `train_val` part is split again per seed by | |
| 20 | +`group.get_train_valid_split(benchmark=name, split_type='default', seed=seed)` into 87.5% training | |
| 21 | +and 12.5% validation. The leaderboard asks for five independent runs with seeds 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; | |
| 22 | +`group.evaluate_many` then reports the mean and the standard deviation of the per-seed test scores, | |
| 23 | +rounded to three decimals. The test set never changes, so only the training split moves with the seed. | |
| 24 | + | |
| 25 | +The metric is AUROC, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, computed by TDC’s `Evaluator(name='roc-auc')`; it equals the probability that a positive compound is scored above a negative one, and higher is better. Submissions pass continuous scores, not hard labels. | |
| 26 | + | |
| 27 | +Official evaluation code: [`tdc/benchmark_group/base_group.py`](https://github.com/mims-harvard/TDC/blob/main/tdc/benchmark_group/base_group.py) | |
| 28 | +in the TDC repository (MIT licence), whose `evaluate` and `evaluate_many` methods are what the | |
| 29 | +leaderboard numbers come from. The dataset page gives the licence as "Not Specified. CC BY 4.0". | |
| 30 | + | |
| 31 | +## What is known | |
| 32 | + | |
| 33 | +- Best on the leaderboard: MiniMol, AUROC $0.993 \pm 0.005$, a 10M-parameter pretrained molecular featuriser with a small head per task (Kläser, Banaszewski et al., 2024). | |
| 34 | +- Next: DeepMol (AutoML), $0.990 \pm 0.002$, then MapLight + GNN, $0.989 \pm 0.001$. | |
| 35 | +- Twenty entries are listed, and the task is close to saturated: the top thirteen all sit above $0.96$, within a few hundredths of each other, on a test set of 117 compounds with 27 negatives. Differences at the top are about the size of one or two test compounds changing side. | |
| 36 | + | |
| 37 | +## What would count as progress | |
| 38 | + | |
| 39 | +- A mean AUROC on TDC’s fixed test set that beats MiniMol (AUROC 0.993), averaged over the official | |
| 40 | + seeds 1-5 and produced by `group.evaluate_many`, with the five per-seed numbers reported as well. | |
| 41 | +- The training and inference code, the environment and the fitted model, so that the five runs can be | |
| 42 | + repeated end to end from the `train_val` part alone. | |
| 43 | +- Evidence that the gain is larger than run-to-run noise: the gap between the top two entries here is | |
| 44 | + 0.003 AUROC, so a difference smaller than the reported standard deviation is not a result. | |
| 45 | +- Because the task is near its ceiling, a submission is more convincing if it also reports precision and recall on the 27 test negatives, where the remaining errors are. | |
| 46 | + | |
| 47 | +## References | |
| 48 | + | |
| 49 | +1. Hou, T. et al., "ADME evaluation in drug discovery. 7. Prediction of oral absorption by correlation and classification", *Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling* 47 (2007), 208–218. [doi:10.1021/ci600343x](https://doi.org/10.1021/ci600343x) | |
| 50 | +2. Kläser, K., Banaszewski, B. et al., "MiniMol: A Parameter-Efficient Foundation Model for Molecular Learning", arXiv:2404.14986 (2024). [arxiv.org/abs/2404.14986](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14986) | |
| 51 | +3. Huang, K. et al., "Therapeutics Data Commons: Machine Learning Datasets and Tasks for Drug Discovery and Development", *NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks* (2021), arXiv:2102.09548. [arxiv.org/abs/2102.09548](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09548) | |
| 52 | + | |
| 53 | +## Source | |
| 54 | + | |
| 55 | +Imported from [TDC ADMET benchmark group, HIA_Hou](https://tdcommons.ai/benchmark/admet_group/02hia/), curated by Therapeutics Data Commons (Harvard). Open according to the source as of 2026-10-20. The statement above is written in our own words; see the source for the original wording, history and discussion. | |