Virtual screening strategies in drug discovery: a critical review

A Lavecchia, C Di Giovanni - Current medicinal chemistry, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Virtual screening (VS) is a powerful technique for identifying hit molecules as starting points
for medicinal chemistry. The number of methods and softwares which use the ligand and …

From in silico target prediction to multi-target drug design: current databases, methods and applications

A Koutsoukas, B Simms, J Kirchmair, PJ Bond… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Given the tremendous growth of bioactivity databases, the use of computational tools to
predict protein targets of small molecules has been gaining importance in recent years …

A structural chemogenomics analysis of aminergic GPCRs: lessons for histamine receptor ligand design

AJ Kooistra, S Kuhne, IJP De Esch… - British journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Purpose Chemogenomics focuses on the discovery of new connections
between chemical and biological space leading to the discovery of new protein targets and …

Identification of 5-HT2 serotonin receptor modulators through the synthesis of a diverse, tropane-and quinuclidine-alkaloid-inspired compound library

R Yao, AA Jensen, HP Bryce-Rogers… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The recombination of natural product (NP) fragments in unprecedented ways has emerged
as an important strategy for bioactive compound discovery. In this context, we propose that …

Can we discover pharmacological promiscuity early in the drug discovery process?

JU Peters, J Hert, C Bissantz, A Hillebrecht… - Drug Discovery …, 2012 - Elsevier
The term 'pharmacological promiscuity'describes the activity of a single compound against
multiple targets. When undesired, promiscuity is a major safety concern that needs to be …

From heptahelical bundle to hits from the Haystack: structure-based virtual screening for GPCR ligands

AJ Kooistra, L Roumen, R Leurs, IJP de Esch… - Methods in …, 2013 - Elsevier
This review will focus on the construction, refinement, and validation of G-protein-coupled
receptor (GPCR) structural models for the purpose of structure-based virtual screening …

Recent trends and observations in the design of high-quality screening collections

S Renner, M Popov, A Schuffenhauer… - Future medicinal …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The design of a high-quality screening collection is of utmost importance for the early drug-
discovery process and provides, in combination with high-quality assay systems, the …

[PDF][PDF] pdCSM-GPCR: predicting potent GPCR ligands with graph-based signatures

JPL Velloso, DB Ascher, DEV Pires - Bioinformatics Advances, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) can selectively bind to many types of
ligands, ranging from light-sensitive compounds, ions, hormones, pheromones and …

GPCRLigNet: rapid screening for GPCR active ligands using machine learning

JM Remington, KT McKay, NB Beckage… - Journal of computer …, 2023 - Springer
Molecules with bioactivity towards G protein-coupled receptors represent a subset of the
vast space of small drug-like molecules. Here, we compare machine learning models …

Cheminformatics

JK Wegner, A Sterling, R Guha, A Bender… - Communications of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
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novel teChnoloGies in the life sciences produce information at an accelerating rate, with …