Combining Metabolite-Based Pharmacophores with Bayesian Machine Learning Models for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Discovery

S Ekins, PB Madrid, M Sarker, SG Li, N Mittal, P Kumar… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Integrated computational approaches for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are useful to
identify new molecules that could lead to future tuberculosis (TB) drugs. Our approach uses …

Combining Cheminformatics Methods and Pathway Analysis to Identify Molecules with Whole-Cell Activity Against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

M Sarker, C Talcott, P Madrid, S Chopra… - Pharmaceutical …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose New strategies for developing inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are
required in order to identify the next generation of tuberculosis (TB) drugs. Our approach …

Machine Learning Models for Mycobacterium tuberculosis  In Vitro Activity: Prediction and Target Visualization

TR Lane, F Urbina, L Rank, J Gerlach… - Molecular …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health challenge, with approximately 1.4 million deaths
per year. There is still a need to develop novel treatments for patients infected with …

Combining Computational Methods for Hit to Lead Optimization in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Drug Discovery

S Ekins, JS Freundlich, JV Hobrath… - Pharmaceutical …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose Tuberculosis treatments need to be shorter and overcome drug resistance. Our
previous large scale phenotypic high-throughput screening against Mycobacterium …

Comparing and Validating Machine Learning Models for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Discovery

T Lane, DP Russo, KM Zorn, AM Clark… - Molecular …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Tuberculosis is a global health dilemma. In 2016, the WHO reported 10.4 million incidences
and 1.7 million deaths. The need to develop new treatments for those infected with …

A collaborative database and computational models for tuberculosis drug discovery

S Ekins, J Bradford, K Dole, A Spektor… - Molecular …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The search for molecules with activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is
employing many approaches in parallel including high throughput screening and …

Validating new tuberculosis computational models with public whole cell screening aerobic activity datasets

S Ekins, JS Freundlich - Pharmaceutical research, 2011 - Springer
Purpose The search for small molecules with activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(Mtb) increasingly uses high throughput screening and computational methods. Several …

Looking Back to the Future: Predicting in Vivo Efficacy of Small Molecules versus Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Ekins, R Pottorf, RC Reynolds… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Selecting and translating in vitro leads for a disease into molecules with in vivo activity in an
animal model of the disease is a challenge that takes considerable time and money. As an …

Enhancing Hit Identification in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Discovery Using Validated Dual-Event Bayesian Models

S Ekins, RC Reynolds, SG Franzblau, B Wan… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
High-throughput screening (HTS) in whole cells is widely pursued to find compounds active
against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) for further development towards new tuberculosis …

Computational databases, pathway and cheminformatics tools for tuberculosis drug discovery

S Ekins, JS Freundlich, I Choi, M Sarker, C Talcott - Trends in microbiology, 2011 - cell.com
We are witnessing the growing menace of both increasing cases of drug-sensitive and drug-
resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and the challenge to produce the first new …