Rethinking drug design in the artificial intelligence era

P Schneider, WP Walters, AT Plowright… - Nature reviews drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly being applied in drug discovery. While some
protagonists point to vast opportunities potentially offered by such tools, others remain …

How beyond rule of 5 drugs and clinical candidates bind to their targets

BC Doak, J Zheng, D Dobritzsch… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
To improve discovery of drugs for difficult targets, the opportunities of chemical space
beyond the rule of 5 (bRo5) were examined by retrospective analysis of a comprehensive …

Cell permeability beyond the rule of 5

P Matsson, BC Doak, B Over, J Kihlberg - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Drug discovery for difficult targets that have large and flat binding sites is often better suited
to compounds beyond the “rule of 5”(bRo5). However, such compounds carry higher …

Improving drug design: an update on recent applications of efficiency metrics, strategies for replacing problematic elements, and compounds in nontraditional drug …

NA Meanwell - Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Drug discovery and development is a complex and lengthy enterprise that suffers from high
rates of candidate attrition at all stages of the process. The physical, biological, and …

Target-based evaluation of “drug-like” properties and ligand efficiencies

PD Leeson, AP Bento, A Gaulton… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Physicochemical descriptors commonly used to define “drug-likeness” and ligand efficiency
measures are assessed for their ability to differentiate marketed drugs from compounds …

Fragment-to-lead medicinal chemistry publications in 2019

W Jahnke, DA Erlanson, IJP De Esch… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) has grown and matured to a point where it is
valuable to keep track of its extent and details of application. This Perspective summarizes …

Molecular inflation, attrition and the rule of five

PD Leeson - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Physicochemical properties underlie all aspects of drug action and are critical for solubility,
permeability and successful formulation. Specific physicochemical properties shown to be …

Fragment-to-lead medicinal chemistry publications in 2018

DA Erlanson, IJP de Esch, W Jahnke… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This Perspective, the fourth in an annual series, summarizes fragment-to-lead (F2L) success
stories published during 2018. Topics such as target class, screening methods …

Towards holistic compound quality scores (cqs): Extending ligand efficiency indices with compound pharmacokinetic (pk) characteristics

CS Tautermann, JM Borghardt, R Pfau, M Zentgraf… - Drug Discovery …, 2023 - Elsevier
The suitability of small molecules as oral drugs is often assessed by simple physicochemical
rules, the application of ligand efficiency scores or by composite scores based on …

How drugs get into cells: tested and testable predictions to help discriminate between transporter-mediated uptake and lipoidal bilayer diffusion

DB Kell, SG Oliver - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
One approach to experimental science involves creating hypotheses, then testing them by
varying one or more independent variables, and assessing the effects of this variation on the …