Drug discovery with explainable artificial intelligence

J Jiménez-Luna, F Grisoni, G Schneider - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
Deep learning bears promise for drug discovery, including advanced image analysis,
prediction of molecular structure and function, and automated generation of innovative …

Challenges and opportunities in cancer drug resistance

RA Ward, S Fawell, N Floc'h, V Flemington… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
There has been huge progress in the discovery of targeted cancer therapies in recent years.
However, even for the most successful and impactful cancer drugs which have been …

An Activity‐Based Fluorescent Probe for Imaging Fluctuations of Peroxynitrite (ONOO) in the Alzheimer's Disease Brain

P Wang, L Yu, J Gong, J Xiong, S Zi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Peroxynitrite (ONOO−) plays a critical role in Alzheimer's disease (AD). To reveal the
ONOO− influx in AD brains, an activatable activity‐based fluorescence probe Rd‐DPA3 was …

Chemistry-intuitive explanation of graph neural networks for molecular property prediction with substructure masking

Z Wu, J Wang, H Du, D Jiang, Y Kang, D Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in molecular property prediction, but
explaining their black-box predictions is still a challenge. Most existing explanation methods …

Strategies for structural modification of small molecules to improve blood–brain barrier penetration: a recent perspective

B Xiong, Y Wang, Y Chen, S Xing, Q Liao… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the development of central nervous system (CNS) drugs, the blood–brain barrier (BBB)
restricts many drugs from entering the brain to exert therapeutic effects. Although many …

A perspective on multi-target drugs for Alzheimer's disease

O Benek, J Korabecny, O Soukup - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a complex pathophysiology that includes aggregation of
pathological proteins, impaired neurotransmission, increased oxidative stress, or microglia …

In vitro enzymatic evaluation of some pyrazolo[1,5‐a]pyrimidine derivatives: Design, synthesis, antioxidant, anti‐diabetic, anti‐Alzheimer, and anti‐arthritic activities …

AS Hassan, NM Morsy… - Drug Development …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The strategy of utilizing nitrogen compounds in various biological applications has recently
emerged as a powerful approach to exploring novel classes of therapeutics to face the …

A curated diverse molecular database of blood-brain barrier permeability with chemical descriptors

F Meng, Y Xi, J Huang, PW Ayers - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
The highly-selective blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents neurotoxic substances in blood from
crossing into the extracellular fluid of the central nervous system (CNS). As such, the BBB …

Alvascience: a new software suite for the QSAR workflow applied to the blood–brain barrier permeability

A Mauri, M Bertola - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) and quantitative structure–property
relationship (QSPR) are established techniques to relate endpoints to molecular features …

DeePred-BBB: A blood brain barrier permeability prediction model with improved accuracy

R Kumar, A Sharma, A Alexiou, AL Bilgrami… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a selective and semipermeable boundary that maintains
homeostasis inside the central nervous system (CNS). The BBB permeability of compounds …