hERG toxicity assessment: Useful guidelines for drug design

A Garrido, A Lepailleur, SM Mignani… - European journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
All along the drug development process, one of the most frequent adverse side effects,
leading to the failure of drugs, is the cardiac arrhythmias. Such failure is mostly related to the …

Chemical predictive modelling to improve compound quality

JG Cumming, AM Davis, S Muresan… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2013 - nature.com
The'quality'of small-molecule drug candidates, encompassing aspects including their
potency, selectivity and ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) …

ChEMBL: a large-scale bioactivity database for drug discovery

A Gaulton, LJ Bellis, AP Bento, J Chambers… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract ChEMBL is an Open Data database containing binding, functional and ADMET
information for a large number of drug-like bioactive compounds. These data are manually …

Matched molecular pairs as a medicinal chemistry tool: miniperspective

E Griffen, AG Leach, GR Robb… - Journal of medicinal …, 2011 - ACS Publications
At the very heart of the role of a medicinal chemist or drug designer is the ability to link
chemical structure to molecular properties. This is the structureÀactivity relationship (SAR) or …

In Silico Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, and Pharmacokinetics (ADME-PK): Utility and Best Practices. An Industry Perspective from the International …

F Lombardo, PV Desai, R Arimoto… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In silico tools to investigate absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and
pharmacokinetics (ADME-PK) properties of new chemical entities are an integral part of the …

Effects of replacing oxygenated functionality with fluorine on lipophilicity

RJ Glyn, G Pattison - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
The replacement of oxygenated functionality (hydroxy and alkoxy) with a fluorine atom is a
commonly used bioisosteric replacement in medicinal chemistry. In this paper, we use …

Development of safe drugs: the hERG challenge

S Kalyaanamoorthy, KH Barakat - Medicinal research reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Drug‐induced blockade of human ether‐a‐go‐go‐related gene (hERG) remains a major
impediment in delivering safe drugs to the market. Several drugs have been withdrawn from …

The ups and downs of Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase-1 inhibitors in cancer therapy–Current progress and future direction

Y Zhao, LX Zhang, T Jiang, J Long, ZY Ma… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase 1 (PARP1), one of the most investigated 18
membered PARP family enzymes, is involved in a variety of cellular functions including DNA …

Matched molecular pair analysis in drug discovery: methods and recent applications

Z Yang, S Shi, L Fu, A Lu, T Hou… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Matched molecular pair analysis (MMPA) is a tool to extract knowledge of medicinal
chemistry from existing experimental data, and it relates changes in activities or properties to …

mmpdb: An open-source matched molecular pair platform for large multiproperty data sets

A Dalke, J Hert, C Kramer - Journal of chemical information and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Matched molecular pair analysis (MMPA) enables the automated and systematic
compilation of medicinal chemistry rules from compound/property data sets. Here we …