Enhancing the effectiveness of similarity-based virtual screening using nearest-neighbor information

J Hert, P Willett, DJ Wilton, P Acklin… - Journal of medicinal …, 2005 - ACS Publications
… is possible to increase the effectiveness of similarity-based virtual screening by carrying out
… initial similarity search. The approach requires no modifications to existing similarity software …

Molecular similarity analysis in virtual screening: foundations, limitations and novel approaches

H Eckert, J Bajorath - Drug discovery today, 2007 - Elsevier
… essential for the success of molecular similarity analysis or virtual screening. The answer is
no… database, providing a strategy that was more effective at enriching selection sets for active …

Enhancing the effectiveness of virtual screening by fusing nearest neighbor lists: a comparison of similarity coefficients

M Whittle, VJ Gillet, P Willett, A Alex… - Journal of chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
effectiveness of various similarity coefficients for 2D similarityeffective than the SUM rule
for the combination of similarity … For practical purposes in virtual screening, we believe that …

New methods for ligand-based virtual screening: use of data fusion and machine learning to enhance the effectiveness of similarity searching

J Hert, P Willett, DJ Wilton, P Acklin… - Journal of chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
… of similarity searches when multiple reference structures are available. We demonstrate that
this technique is notably more effective than conventional similarity … from a similarity search, …

Genetic algorithm-based feature selection approach for enhancing the effectiveness of similarity searching in ligand-based virtual screening

F Berrhail, H Belhadef - Current Bioinformatics, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
… This screening technique functions by making a comparison … It is well known that none of
the individual similarity measures … effectiveness of ligand-based virtual screening approaches. …

Similarity-based virtual screening using 2D fingerprints

P Willett - Drug discovery today, 2006 - Elsevier
… Group fusion involves combining the results of similarity searches based on multiple … a
single similarity measure. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach to screening, and …

Effectiveness of graph-based and fingerprint-based similarity measures for virtual screening of 2D chemical structure databases

JW Raymond, P Willett - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2002 - Springer
… We have previously demonstrated the efficiency of RASCAL [8]; in this paper, we report
an investigation of its effectiveness when used for virtual screening and compare the results …

Evolutionary chemical binding similarity approach integrated with 3D-QSAR method for effective virtual screening

P Durai, YJ Ko, CH Pan, K Park - BMC bioinformatics, 2020 - Springer
… We report that the virtual screening results could further be improved by combining the
chemical binding similarity model with 3D-QSAR pharmacophore and molecular docking models. …

Graph-based similarity concepts in virtual screening

MC Hutter - Future medicinal chemistry, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… regarding similarity criteria are collected. For the purpose of virtual screening, the … format
that permits a comparison, according to given similarity criteria, comprising the use of the 3D …

Molecular similarity: advances in methods, applications and validations in virtual screening and QSAR

A Bender, JL Jenkins, Q Li, SE Adams… - Annual reports in …, 2006 - Elsevier
… and the resulting shape similarity was shown to be useful in virtual screening applications. …
The effect of binary representations of fingerprints has been known for some time, such as …