LANTERN: A Machine Learning Framework for Lipid Nanoparticle Transfection Efficiency Prediction
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| author | Mehradfar, Asal Sepehri, Mohammad Shahab Hernandez-Lobato, Jose Miguel Kwon, Glen S. Soltanolkotabi, Mahdi Avestimehr, Salman Rasoulianboroujeni, Morteza |
| author_facet | Mehradfar, Asal Sepehri, Mohammad Shahab Hernandez-Lobato, Jose Miguel Kwon, Glen S. Soltanolkotabi, Mahdi Avestimehr, Salman Rasoulianboroujeni, Morteza |
| contents | The discovery of new ionizable lipids for efficient lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-mediated RNA delivery remains a critical bottleneck for RNA-based therapeutics development. Recent advances have highlighted the potential of machine learning (ML) to predict transfection efficiency from molecular structure, enabling high-throughput virtual screening and accelerating lead identification. However, existing approaches are hindered by inadequate data quality, ineffective feature representations, low predictive accuracy, and poor generalizability. Here, we present LANTERN (Lipid nANoparticle Transfection Efficiency pRedictioN), a robust ML framework for predicting transfection efficiency based on ionizable lipid representation. We benchmarked a diverse set of ML models against AGILE, a previously published model developed for transfection prediction. Our results show that combining simpler models with chemically informative features, particularly count-based Morgan fingerprints, outperforms more complex models that rely on internally learned embeddings, such as AGILE. We also show that a multi-layer perceptron trained on a combination of Morgan fingerprints and Expert descriptors achieved the highest performance ($\text{R}^2$ = 0.8161, r = 0.9053), significantly exceeding AGILE ($\text{R}^2$ = 0.2655, r = 0.5488). We show that the models in LANTERN consistently have strong performance across multiple evaluation metrics. Thus, LANTERN offers a robust benchmarking framework for LNP transfection prediction and serves as a valuable tool for accelerating lipid-based RNA delivery systems design. |
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| spellingShingle | LANTERN: A Machine Learning Framework for Lipid Nanoparticle Transfection Efficiency Prediction Mehradfar, Asal Sepehri, Mohammad Shahab Hernandez-Lobato, Jose Miguel Kwon, Glen S. Soltanolkotabi, Mahdi Avestimehr, Salman Rasoulianboroujeni, Morteza Quantitative Methods Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Machine Learning Molecular Networks The discovery of new ionizable lipids for efficient lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-mediated RNA delivery remains a critical bottleneck for RNA-based therapeutics development. Recent advances have highlighted the potential of machine learning (ML) to predict transfection efficiency from molecular structure, enabling high-throughput virtual screening and accelerating lead identification. However, existing approaches are hindered by inadequate data quality, ineffective feature representations, low predictive accuracy, and poor generalizability. Here, we present LANTERN (Lipid nANoparticle Transfection Efficiency pRedictioN), a robust ML framework for predicting transfection efficiency based on ionizable lipid representation. We benchmarked a diverse set of ML models against AGILE, a previously published model developed for transfection prediction. Our results show that combining simpler models with chemically informative features, particularly count-based Morgan fingerprints, outperforms more complex models that rely on internally learned embeddings, such as AGILE. We also show that a multi-layer perceptron trained on a combination of Morgan fingerprints and Expert descriptors achieved the highest performance ($\text{R}^2$ = 0.8161, r = 0.9053), significantly exceeding AGILE ($\text{R}^2$ = 0.2655, r = 0.5488). We show that the models in LANTERN consistently have strong performance across multiple evaluation metrics. Thus, LANTERN offers a robust benchmarking framework for LNP transfection prediction and serves as a valuable tool for accelerating lipid-based RNA delivery systems design. |
| title | LANTERN: A Machine Learning Framework for Lipid Nanoparticle Transfection Efficiency Prediction |
| topic | Quantitative Methods Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Machine Learning Molecular Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03209 |