Recognizing pitfalls in virtual screening: a critical review

T Scior, A Bender, G Tresadern… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The aim of virtual screening (VS) is to identify bioactive compounds through computational
means, by employing knowledge about the protein target (structure-based VS) or known …

Evaluation of the performance of 3D virtual screening protocols: RMSD comparisons, enrichment assessments, and decoy selection—what can we learn from earlier …

J Kirchmair, P Markt, S Distinto, G Wolber… - Journal of computer …, 2008 - Springer
Within the last few years a considerable amount of evaluative studies has been published
that investigate the performance of 3D virtual screening approaches. Thereby, in particular …

Conformer generation with OMEGA: learning from the data set and the analysis of failures

PCD Hawkins, A Nicholls - Journal of chemical information and …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We recently published a high quality validation set for testing conformer generators,
consisting of structures from both the PDB and the CSD (Hawkins, PCD et al. J. Chem. Inf …

ConfGen: a conformational search method for efficient generation of bioactive conformers

KS Watts, P Dalal, RB Murphy… - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
We describe the methodology, parametrization, and application of a conformational search
method, called ConfGen, designed to efficiently generate bioactive conformers. We define …

Molecule-pharmacophore superpositioning and pattern matching in computational drug design

G Wolber, T Seidel, F Bendix, T Langer - Drug discovery today, 2008 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional (3D) pharmacophore modeling is a technique for describing the
interaction of a small molecule ligand with a macromolecular target. Since chemical features …

Efficient overlay of small organic molecules using 3D pharmacophores

G Wolber, AA Dornhofer, T Langer - Journal of computer-aided molecular …, 2006 - Springer
Aligning and overlaying two or more bio-active molecules is one of the key tasks in
computational drug discovery and bio-activity prediction. Especially chemical-functional …

Flavonoids as protein kinase inhibitors for cancer chemoprevention: direct binding and molecular modeling

DX Hou, T Kumamoto - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2010 - liebertpub.com
Protein kinases play crucial roles in the regulation of multiple cell signaling pathways and
cellular functions. Deregulation of protein kinase function has been implicated in …

Virtual screening for the discovery of bioactive natural products

JM Rollinger, H Stuppner, T Langer - Natural compounds as drugs …, 2008 - Springer
In this survey the impact of the virtual screening concept is discussed in the field of drug
discovery from nature. Confronted by a steadily increasing number of secondary metabolites …

Auto3d: Automatic generation of the low-energy 3d structures with ANI neural network potentials

Z Liu, T Zubatiuk, A Roitberg… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Computational programs accelerate the chemical discovery processes but often need
proper three-dimensional molecular information as part of the input. Getting optimal …

Pharmacophore modeling: advances, limitations, and current utility in drug discovery

X Qing, X Yin Lee, J De Raeymaeker… - Journal of Receptor …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Pharmacophore modeling is a successful yet very diverse subfield of computer-aided drug
design. The concept of the pharmacophore has been widely applied to the rational design of …