Role of computer-aided drug design in modern drug discovery

SJY Macalino, V Gosu, S Hong, S Choi - Archives of pharmacal research, 2015 - Springer
Drug discovery utilizes chemical biology and computational drug design approaches for the
efficient identification and optimization of lead compounds. Chemical biology is mostly …

Recognizing pitfalls in virtual screening: a critical review

T Scior, A Bender, G Tresadern… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The aim of virtual screening (VS) is to identify bioactive compounds through computational
means, by employing knowledge about the protein target (structure-based VS) or known …

New substructure filters for removal of pan assay interference compounds (PAINS) from screening libraries and for their exclusion in bioassays

JB Baell, GA Holloway - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
This report describes a number of substructural features which can help to identify
compounds that appear as frequent hitters (promiscuous compounds) in many biochemical …

Rapid, accurate, precise and reproducible ligand–protein binding free energy prediction

S Wan, AP Bhati, SJ Zasada… - Interface …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A central quantity of interest in molecular biology and medicine is the free energy of binding
of a molecule to a target biomacromolecule. Until recently, the accurate prediction of binding …

Improving structure-based virtual screening with ensemble docking and machine learning

J Ricci-Lopez, SA Aguila, MK Gilson… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
One of the main challenges of structure-based virtual screening (SBVS) is the incorporation
of the receptor's flexibility, as its explicit representation in every docking run implies a high …

Computational identification of a transiently open L1/S3 pocket for reactivation of mutant p53

CD Wassman, R Baronio, Ö Demir… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The tumour suppressor p53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer.
Reactivation of mutant p53 by small molecules is an exciting potential cancer therapy …

Software and resources for computational medicinal chemistry

C Liao, M Sitzmann, A Pugliese… - Future medicinal …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Computer-aided drug design plays a vital role in drug discovery and development and has
become an indispensable tool in the pharmaceutical industry. Computational medicinal …

Docking validation resources: protein family and ligand flexibility experiments

S Mukherjee, TE Balius, RC Rizzo - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A database consisting of 780 ligand− receptor complexes, termed SB2010, has been
derived from the Protein Databank to evaluate the accuracy of docking protocols for …

Overcoming chemical, biological, and computational challenges in the development of inhibitors targeting protein-protein interactions

L Laraia, G McKenzie, DR Spring, AR Venkitaraman… - Chemistry & biology, 2015 - cell.com
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) underlie the majority of biological processes, signaling,
and disease. Approaches to modulate PPIs with small molecules have therefore attracted …

Novel allosteric sites on Ras for lead generation

BJ Grant, S Lukman, HJ Hocker, J Sayyah, JH Brown… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Aberrant Ras activity is a hallmark of diverse cancers and developmental diseases.
Unfortunately, conventional efforts to develop effective small molecule Ras inhibitors have …