Ecotoxicological assessment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products using predictive toxicology approaches

S Kar, H Sanderson, K Roy, E Benfenati… - Green …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and personal care products (PCPs) is
growing day by day all over the world. Thus, these materials have appeared as …

Three-dimensional pharmacophore methods in drug discovery

AR Leach, VJ Gillet, RA Lewis… - Journal of medicinal …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The term pharmacophore has been used in medicinal chemistry for many years. The official
1998 IUPAC definition1 is as follows:“A pharmacophore is the ensemble of steric and …

Conformer generation with OMEGA: algorithm and validation using high quality structures from the Protein Databank and Cambridge Structural Database

PCD Hawkins, AG Skillman, GL Warren… - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Here, we present the algorithm and validation for OMEGA, a systematic, knowledge-based
conformer generator. The algorithm consists of three phases: assembly of an initial 3D …

Calculating partition coefficients of small molecules in octanol/water and cyclohexane/water

CC Bannan, G Calabró, DY Kyu… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Partition coefficients describe how a solute is distributed between two immiscible solvents.
They are used in drug design as a measure of a solute's hydrophobicity and a proxy for its …

Evaluation of the performance of 3D virtual screening protocols: RMSD comparisons, enrichment assessments, and decoy selection—what can we learn from earlier …

J Kirchmair, P Markt, S Distinto, G Wolber… - Journal of computer …, 2008 - Springer
Within the last few years a considerable amount of evaluative studies has been published
that investigate the performance of 3D virtual screening approaches. Thereby, in particular …

Freely available conformer generation methods: how good are they?

JP Ebejer, GM Morris, CM Deane - Journal of chemical information …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Conformer generation has important implications in cheminformatics, particularly in
computational drug discovery where the quality of conformer generation software may affect …

Pharmacophore-based virtual screening

H Sun - Current medicinal chemistry, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Virtual screening (VS) is an important component of cheminformatics and molecular
modeling. An abundance of structural information, indicated by both the ever-increasing …

First-principles molecular structure search with a genetic algorithm

A Supady, V Blum, C Baldauf - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The identification of low-energy conformers for a given molecule is a fundamental problem
in computational chemistry and cheminformatics. We assess here a conformer search that …

A sobering assessment of small‐molecule force field methods for low energy conformer predictions

IY Kanal, JA Keith, GR Hutchison - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We have carried out a large scale computational investigation to assess the utility of
common small‐molecule force fields for computational screening of low energy conformers …

CAESAR: a new conformer generation algorithm based on recursive buildup and local rotational symmetry consideration

J Li, T Ehlers, J Sutter, S Varma-O'Brien… - Journal of chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
A highly efficient conformer search algorithm based on a divide-and-conquer and recursive
conformer build-up approach is presented in this paper. This approach is combined with …