Chagas disease: perspectives on the past and present and challenges in drug discovery

FRP Mansoldo, F Carta, A Angeli, VS Cardoso… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chagas disease still has no effective treatment option for all of its phases despite being
discovered more than 100 years ago. The development of commercial drugs has been …

[HTML][HTML] Current computational methods for predicting protein interactions of natural products

AFA Moumbock, J Li, P Mishra, M Gao… - Computational and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural products (NPs) are an indispensable source of drugs and they have a better
coverage of the pharmacological space than synthetic compounds, owing to their high …

Structural and conformational determinants of macrocycle cell permeability

B Over, P Matsson, C Tyrchan, P Artursson… - Nature Chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
Macrocycles are of increasing interest as chemical probes and drugs for intractable targets
like protein–protein interactions, but the determinants of their cell permeability and oral …

Accurate cancer classification using expressions of very few genes

L Wang, F Chu, W Xie - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We aim at finding the smallest set of genes that can ensure highly accurate classification of
cancers from microarray data by using supervised machine learning algorithms. The …

Reliable estimation of prediction errors for QSAR models under model uncertainty using double cross-validation

D Baumann, K Baumann - Journal of cheminformatics, 2014 - Springer
Background Generally, QSAR modelling requires both model selection and validation since
there is no a priori knowledge about the optimal QSAR model. Prediction errors (PE) are …

Rapid measurement of intracellular unbound drug concentrations

A Mateus, P Matsson, P Artursson - Molecular pharmaceutics, 2013 - ACS Publications
Intracellular unbound drug concentrations determine affinity to targets in the cell interior.
However, due to difficulties in measuring them, they are often overlooked in pharmacology …

Profiling of a prescription drug library for potential renal drug–drug interactions mediated by the organic cation transporter 2

Y Kido, P Matsson, KM Giacomini - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) are major causes of serious adverse drug reactions. Most
DDIs have a pharmacokinetic basis in which one drug reduces the elimination of a second …

Virtual screening of GPCRs: An in silico chemogenomics approach

L Jacob, B Hoffmann, V Stoven, JP Vert - BMC bioinformatics, 2008 - Springer
Background The G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily is currently the largest
class of therapeutic targets. In silico prediction of interactions between GPCRs and small …

Proteochemometric modeling of HIV protease susceptibility

M Lapins, M Eklund, O Spjuth, P Prusis… - BMC bioinformatics, 2008 - Springer
Background A major obstacle in treatment of HIV is the ability of the virus to mutate rapidly
into drug-resistant variants. A method for predicting the susceptibility of mutated HIV strains …

Kinome-wide interaction modelling using alignment-based and alignment-independent approaches for kinase description and linear and non-linear data analysis …

M Lapins, JES Wikberg - BMC bioinformatics, 2010 - Springer
Background Protein kinases play crucial roles in cell growth, differentiation, and apoptosis.
Abnormal function of protein kinases can lead to many serious diseases, such as cancer …