Computational approaches streamlining drug discovery

AV Sadybekov, V Katritch - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Computer-aided drug discovery has been around for decades, although the past few years
have seen a tectonic shift towards embracing computational technologies in both academia …

Rings in clinical trials and drugs: present and future

J Shearer, JL Castro, ADG Lawson… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present a comprehensive analysis of all ring systems (both heterocyclic and
nonheterocyclic) in clinical trial compounds and FDA-approved drugs. We show 67% of …

A practical guide to large-scale docking

BJ Bender, S Gahbauer, A Luttens, J Lyu, CM Webb… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Structure-based docking screens of large compound libraries have become
common in early drug and probe discovery. As computer efficiency has improved and …

Integrating QSAR modelling and deep learning in drug discovery: the emergence of deep QSAR

A Tropsha, O Isayev, A Varnek, G Schneider… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) modelling, an approach that was
introduced 60 years ago, is widely used in computer-aided drug design. In recent years …

Deep generative molecular design reshapes drug discovery

X Zeng, F Wang, Y Luo, S Kang, J Tang… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Recent advances and accomplishments of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep generative
models have established their usefulness in medicinal applications, especially in drug …

Accelerating high-throughput virtual screening through molecular pool-based active learning

DE Graff, EI Shakhnovich, CW Coley - Chemical science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Structure-based virtual screening is an important tool in early stage drug discovery that
scores the interactions between a target protein and candidate ligands. As virtual libraries …

Exploration of ultralarge compound collections for drug discovery

WA Warr, MC Nicklaus, CA Nicolaou… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Designing new medicines more cheaply and quickly is tightly linked to the quest of exploring
chemical space more widely and efficiently. Chemical space is monumentally large, but …

Defining levels of automated chemical design

B Goldman, S Kearnes, T Kramer, P Riley… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
One application area of computational methods in drug discovery is the automated design of
small molecules. Despite the large number of publications describing methods and their …

Sample efficient reinforcement learning with active learning for molecular design

M Dodds, J Guo, T Löhr, A Tibo, O Engkvist… - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful and flexible paradigm for searching for solutions
in high-dimensional action spaces. However, bridging the gap between playing computer …

AI-accelerated protein-ligand docking for SARS-CoV-2 is 100-fold faster with no significant change in detection

A Clyde, X Liu, T Brettin, H Yoo, A Partin, Y Babuji… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Protein-ligand docking is a computational method for identifying drug leads. The method is
capable of narrowing a vast library of compounds down to a tractable size for downstream …