Concepts of artificial intelligence for computer-assisted drug discovery

X Yang, Y Wang, R Byrne, G Schneider… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial intelligence (AI), and, in particular, deep learning as a subcategory of AI, provides
opportunities for the discovery and development of innovative drugs. Various machine …

The light and dark sides of virtual screening: what is there to know?

A Gimeno, MJ Ojeda-Montes… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Virtual screening consists of using computational tools to predict potentially bioactive
compounds from files containing large libraries of small molecules. Virtual screening is …

Interpretation of compound activity predictions from complex machine learning models using local approximations and shapley values

R Rodríguez-Pérez, J Bajorath - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
In qualitative or quantitative studies of structure–activity relationships (SARs), machine
learning (ML) models are trained to recognize structural patterns that differentiate between …

How to explore chemical space using algorithms and automation

PS Gromski, AB Henson, JM Granda… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Although extending the reactivity of a given class of molecules is relatively straightforward,
the discovery of genuinely new reactivity and the molecules that result is a wholly more …

From target to drug: generative modeling for the multimodal structure-based ligand design

M Skalic, D Sabbadin, B Sattarov… - Molecular …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Chemical space is impractically large, and conventional structure-based virtual screening
techniques cannot be used to simply search through the entire space to discover effective …

Virtual screening techniques in drug discovery: review and recent applications

SFL da Silva Rocha, CG Olanda… - Current topics in …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
The discovery of bioactive molecules is an expensive and time-consuming process and new
strategies are continuously searched for in order to optimize this process. Virtual Screening …

Rapid virtual screening of enantioselective catalysts using CatVS

AR Rosales, J Wahlers, E Limé, RE Meadows… - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
The development of computational tools to support organic synthesis, including the
prediction of reaction pathways, optimization and selectivity, is a topic of intense current …

Application of computational biology and artificial intelligence technologies in cancer precision drug discovery

N Nagarajan, EKY Yapp, NQK Le… - BioMed research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial intelligence (AI) proves to have enormous potential in many areas of healthcare
including research and chemical discoveries. Using large amounts of aggregated data, the …

The compromise of virtual screening and its impact on drug discovery

O Slater, M Kontoyianni - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Docking and structure-based virtual screening (VS) have been standard
approaches in structure-based design for over two decades. However, our understanding of …

Multitask machine learning for classifying highly and weakly potent kinase inhibitors

R Rodriguez-Perez, J Bajorath - Acs Omega, 2019 - ACS Publications
Compound activity prediction is a major application of machine learning (ML) in
pharmaceutical research. Conventional single-task (ST) learning aims to predict active …