Three-dimensional molecular modeling and drug design

P Gund, JD Andose, JB Rhodes, GM Smith - Science, 1980 - science.org
… The computer-assisted molecular modeling system at Merck is … storing molecular structures,
determining preferred conformation, comparing molecular shapes, and computing molecular

3D database searching in drug design

YC Martin - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 1992 - ACS Publications
… the computer design of structurally novel molecules, we need tools beyond molecular graphics.
… forms the search query and database molecules are tested for shape similarity to it. They …

New method for rapid characterization of molecular shapes: applications in drug design

R Nilakantan, N Bauman… - Journal of Chemical …, 1993 - ACS Publications
shape match between two molecules or a molecule and a … the computationally expensive
shape-based docking method … large database for their fit to a shape template. The merits and …

Rational approaches to improving selectivity in drug design

DJ Huggins, W Sherman, B Tidor - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
… polar and charged molecules more sensitive to molecular shape than less polar molecules.
It is also … , provides more partners for less polar molecules. One might imagine that increased …

Compass: A shape-based machine learning tool for drug design

AN Jain, TG Dietterich, RH Lathrop, D Chapman… - … -Aided Molecular Design, 1994 - Springer
… of molecules without the benefit of a characterized active site. The technique combines explicit
representation of molecular shape … chemically distinct classes of molecules. We apply the …

Shape signatures: a new approach to computer-aided ligand-and receptor-based drug design

RJ Zauhar, G Moyna, LF Tian, ZJ Li… - Journal of medicinal …, 2003 - ACS Publications
… computer-aided drug design is the comparison of molecular shape. In ligand-based design,
the … is complementary in shape to some target receptor, suggesting that molecules similar in …

Zero-shot 3d drug design by sketching and generating

S Long, Y Zhou, X Dai, H Zhou - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… a zero-shot drug design method DESERT, which splits the drug design process into two …
DESERT bridges the two stages with the molecular shape and utilize a large-scale molecular

Shape-based generative modeling for de novo drug design

M Skalic, J Jiménez, D Sabbadin… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… -based de novo molecule design approach. (21) Finally, we test a structure-based drug
design application and use virtual screening to assess the applicability of the de novo design. …

The importance of discerning shape in molecular pharmacology

S Kortagere, MD Krasowski, S Ekins - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2009 - cell.com
… and applicability of determining molecular shape in drug discovery, virtual screening … shape
in molecular pharmacology has gained importance owing to its applicability in drug design

Molecular shape and medicinal chemistry: a perspective

A Nicholls, GB McGaughey, RP Sheridan… - Journal of medicinal …, 2010 - ACS Publications
… A number of tasks in structure-based drug design rely on the availability of high quality …
the goal of describing molecular shapes accurately as surfaces with properties such as polarity. …