Drug design by pharmacophore and virtual screening approach

D Giordano, C Biancaniello, MA Argenio, A Facchiano - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Computer-aided drug discovery techniques reduce the time and the costs needed to
develop novel drugs. Their relevance becomes more and more evident with the needs due …

An updated review of computer‐aided drug design and its application to COVID‐19

AB Gurung, MA Ali, J Lee, MA Farah… - BioMed research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The recent outbreak of the deadly coronavirus disease 19 (COVID‐19) pandemic poses
serious health concerns around the world. The lack of approved drugs or vaccines continues …

Structure based pharmacophore modeling, virtual screening, molecular docking and ADMET approaches for identification of natural anti-cancer agents targeting XIAP …

FADM Opo, MM Rahman, F Ahammad, I Ahmed… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) is a member of inhibitor of apoptosis protein
(IAP) family responsible for neutralizing the caspases-3, caspases-7, and caspases-9 …

PharmMapper 2017 update: a web server for potential drug target identification with a comprehensive target pharmacophore database

X Wang, Y Shen, S Wang, S Li, W Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The PharmMapper online tool is a web server for potential drug target identification by
reversed pharmacophore matching the query compound against an in-house …

ZINC 15–ligand discovery for everyone

T Sterling, JJ Irwin - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2015 - ACS Publications
Many questions about the biological activity and availability of small molecules remain
inaccessible to investigators who could most benefit from their answers. To narrow the gap …

Merging ligand-based and structure-based methods in drug discovery: An overview of combined virtual screening approaches

J Vázquez, M López, E Gibert, E Herrero, FJ Luque - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Virtual screening (VS) is an outstanding cornerstone in the drug discovery pipeline. A variety
of computational approaches, which are generally classified as ligand-based (LB) and …

Beware of docking!

YC Chen - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Docking is now routine in virtual screening or lead optimization for drug screening and
design. The number of papers related to docking has dramatically increased over the past …

Next generation 3D pharmacophore modeling

D Schaller, D Šribar, T Noonan, L Deng… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D pharmacophore models are three‐dimensional ensembles of chemically
defined interactions of a ligand in its bioactive conformation. They represent an elegant way …

Pharmit: interactive exploration of chemical space

J Sunseri, DR Koes - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Pharmit (http://pharmit. csb. pitt. edu) provides an online, interactive environment for
the virtual screening of large compound databases using pharmacophores, molecular …

Characterization of the binding of MRTX1133 as an avenue for the discovery of potential KRASG12D inhibitors for cancer therapy

AR Issahaku, N Mukelabai, C Agoni, M Rudrapal… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) oncoprotein has been on drug hunters list for decades now.
Initially considered undruggable, recent advances have successfully broken the jinx through …