Advances in the development of shape similarity methods and their application in drug discovery

A Kumar, KYJ Zhang - Frontiers in chemistry, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Molecular similarity is a key concept in drug discovery. It is based on the assumption that
structurally similar molecules frequently have similar properties. Assessment of similarity …

Molecular graph convolutions: moving beyond fingerprints

S Kearnes, K McCloskey, M Berndl, V Pande… - Journal of computer …, 2016 - Springer
Molecular “fingerprints” encoding structural information are the workhorse of
cheminformatics and machine learning in drug discovery applications. However, fingerprint …

SwissTargetPrediction: a web server for target prediction of bioactive small molecules

D Gfeller, A Grosdidier, M Wirth, A Daina… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Bioactive small molecules, such as drugs or metabolites, bind to proteins or other macro-
molecular targets to modulate their activity, which in turn results in the observed phenotypic …

Drugs repurposed for COVID-19 by virtual screening of 6,218 drugs and cell-based assay

WD Jang, S Jeon, S Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is an unprecedentedly significant health
threat, prompting the need for rapidly develo** antiviral drugs for the treatment. Drug …

MolAICal: a soft tool for 3D drug design of protein targets by artificial intelligence and classical algorithm

Q Bai, S Tan, T Xu, H Liu, J Huang… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Deep learning is an important branch of artificial intelligence that has been successfully
applied into medicine and two-dimensional ligand design. The three-dimensional (3D) …

A review of ligand-based virtual screening web tools and screening algorithms in large molecular databases in the age of big data

AJ Banegas-Luna, JP Cerón-Carrasco… - Future medicinal …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Virtual screening has become a widely used technique for hel** in drug discovery
processes. The key to this success is its ability to aid in the identification of novel bioactive …

SwissSimilarity: a web tool for low to ultra high throughput ligand-based virtual screening

V Zoete, A Daina, C Bovigny, O Michielin - 2016 - ACS Publications
SwissSimilarity is a new web tool for rapid ligand-based virtual screening of small to
unprecedented ultralarge libraries of small molecules. Screenable compounds include …

Sha** the interaction landscape of bioactive molecules

D Gfeller, O Michielin, V Zoete - Bioinformatics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Most bioactive molecules perform their action by interacting with proteins or other
macromolecules. However, for a significant fraction of them, the primary target remains …

Convolutional neural network based on SMILES representation of compounds for detecting chemical motif

M Hirohara, Y Saito, Y Koda, K Sato, Y Sakakibara - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background Previous studies have suggested deep learning to be a highly effective
approach for screening lead compounds for new drugs. Several deep learning models have …

Analysis and comparison of 2D fingerprints: insights into database screening performance using eight fingerprint methods

J Duan, SL Dixon, JF Lowrie, W Sherman - Journal of Molecular Graphics …, 2010 - Elsevier
Virtual screening is a widely used strategy in modern drug discovery and 2D fingerprint
similarity is an important tool that has been successfully applied to retrieve active …