Medicinal chemistry and bioinformatics-current trends in drugs discovery with networks topological indices

H Gonzalez-Diaz, S Vilar, L Santana… - Current topics in …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
The numerical encoding of chemical structure with Topological Indices (TIs) is currently
growing in importance in Medicinal Chemistry and Bioinformatics. This approach allows the …

Proteomics, networks and connectivity indices

H González‐Díaz, Y González‐Díaz, L Santana… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Describing the connectivity of chemical and/or biological systems using networks is a
straight gate for the introduction of mathematical tools in proteomics. Networks, in some …

Predicting antimicrobial drugs and targets with the MARCH-INSIDE approach

H González-Díaz, F Prado-Prado… - Current topics in …, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
The method MARCH-INSIDE (MARkovian CHemicals IN SIlico DEsign) is a simple but
efficient computational approach to the study of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships …

On the evolution of the standard amino-acid alphabet

Y Lu, S Freeland - Genome biology, 2006 - Springer
Although one standard amino-acid'alphabet'is used by most organisms on Earth, the
evolutionary cause (s) and significance of this alphabet remain elusive. Fresh insights into …

TOMOCOMD-CARDD descriptors-based virtual screening of tyrosinase inhibitors: evaluation of different classification model combinations using bond-based linear …

GM Casañola-Martín, Y Marrero-Ponce… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2007 - Elsevier
A new set of bond-level molecular descriptors (bond-based linear indices) are used here in
QSAR (quantitative structure–activity relationship) studies of tyrosinase inhibitors, for finding …

Ligand-based virtual screening and in silico design of new antimalarial compounds using nonstochastic and stochastic total and atom-type quadratic maps

Y Marrero-Ponce, M Iyarreta-Veitía… - Journal of chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Malaria has been one of the most significant public health problems for centuries. It affects
many tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The increasing resistance of Plasmodium …

Alignment-Free Prediction of Polygalacturonases with Pseudofolding Topological Indices: Experimental Isolation from Coffea arabica and Prediction of a New …

G Agüero-Chapin, J Varona-Santos… - Journal of proteome …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Polygalacturonases (PGs) have called the attention of microbiology scientists and
biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry because they are protein enzymes relevant to …

Predicting drugs and proteins in parasite infections with topological indices of complex networks: theoretical backgrounds, applications and legal issues

H Gonzalez-Diaz, F Romaris… - Current …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) models have been used in
Pharmaceutical design and Medicinal Chemistry for the discovery of anti-parasite drugs …

Atom-based stochastic and non-stochastic 3D-chiral bilinear indices and their applications to central chirality codification

JA Castillo-Garit, Y Marrero-Ponce, F Torrens… - Journal of Molecular …, 2007 - Elsevier
Non-stochastic and stochastic 2D bilinear indices have been generalized to codify chemical
structure information for chiral drugs, making use of a trigonometric 3D-chirality correction …

Multi-target spectral moment: QSAR for antifungal drugs vs. different fungi species

FJ Prado-Prado, F Borges, LG Perez-Montoto… - European journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
The most important limitation of antifungal QSAR models is that they predict the biological
activity of drugs against only one fungal species. This is determined due the fact that most of …