Can invalid bioactives undermine natural product-based drug discovery?

J Bisson, JB McAlpine, JB Friesen… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
High-throughput biology has contributed a wealth of data on chemicals, including natural
products (NPs). Recently, attention was drawn to certain, predominantly synthetic …

The essential roles of chemistry in high-throughput screening triage

JL Dahlin, MA Walters - Future medicinal chemistry, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
It is increasingly clear that academic high-throughput screening (HTS) and virtual HTS triage
suffers from a lack of scientists trained in the art and science of early drug discovery …

A rapid cell-free expression and screening platform for antibody discovery

AC Hunt, B Vögeli, AO Hassan, L Guerrero… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antibody discovery is bottlenecked by the individual expression and evaluation of antigen-
specific hits. Here, we address this bottleneck by develo** a workflow combining cell-free …

PAINS in the assay: chemical mechanisms of assay interference and promiscuous enzymatic inhibition observed during a sulfhydryl-scavenging HTS

JL Dahlin, JWM Nissink, JM Strasser… - Journal of medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Significant resources in early drug discovery are spent unknowingly pursuing artifacts and
promiscuous bioactive compounds, while understanding the chemical basis for these …

Phantom PAINS: Problems with the Utility of Alerts for P an-A ssay IN terference Compound S

SJ Capuzzi, EN Muratov, A Tropsha - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The use of substructural alerts to identify P an-A ssay IN terference compound S (PAINS)
has become a common component of the triage process in biological screening campaigns …

BIGCHEM: challenges and opportunities for big data analysis in chemistry

IV Tetko, O Engkvist, U Koch, JL Reymond… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing volume of biomedical data in chemistry and life sciences requires the
development of new methods and approaches for their handling. Here, we briefly discuss …

Current experimental methods for characterizing protein–protein interactions

M Zhou, Q Li, R Wang - ChemMedChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Protein molecules often interact with other partner protein molecules in order to execute their
vital functions in living organisms. Characterization of protein–protein interactions thus plays …

Evolution of Novartis' small molecule screening deck design

A Schuffenhauer, N Schneider… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This article summarizes the evolution of the screening deck at the Novartis Institutes for
BioMedical Research (NIBR). Historically, the screening deck was an assembly of all …

Using microscale thermophoresis to characterize hits from high-throughput screening: a European lead factory perspective

JM Rainard, GC Pandarakalam… - … Life Sciences R&D, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
High-throughput screening (HTS) is a proven method for discovering new lead matter for
drug discovery and chemical biology. To maximize the likelihood of identifying genuine …

Nuisance compounds in cellular assays

JL Dahlin, DS Auld, I Rothenaigner, S Haney… - Cell chemical …, 2021 - cell.com
Compounds that exhibit assay interference or undesirable mechanisms of bioactivity ("
nuisance compounds") are routinely encountered in cellular assays, including phenotypic …