Artificial intelligence in cancer target identification and drug discovery

Y You, X Lai, Y Pan, H Zheng, J Vera, S Liu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence is an advanced method to identify novel anticancer targets and discover
novel drugs from biology networks because the networks can effectively preserve and …

In silico Strategies to Support Fragment-to-Lead Optimization in Drug Discovery

LR de Souza Neto, JT Moreira-Filho, BJ Neves… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Fragment-based drug (or lead) discovery (FBDD or FBLD) has developed in the last two
decades to become a successful key technology in the pharmaceutical industry for early …

Cryptic binding sites on proteins: definition, detection, and druggability

S Vajda, D Beglov, AE Wakefield, M Egbert… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Many proteins have cryptic binding sites that are not detectable in ligand-free
structures.•Cryptic sites can provide druggable targets and have recently received growing …

Targeting breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP/ABCG2): Functional inhibitors and expression modulators

IF Zattoni, LC Delabio, J de Paula Dutra, DH Kita… - European journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The primary source of failure of cancer therapies is multidrug resistance (MDR), which can
be caused by different mechanisms, including the overexpression of ABC transporters in …

DrugnomeAI is an ensemble machine-learning framework for predicting druggability of candidate drug targets

A Raies, E Tulodziecka, J Stainer, L Middleton… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The druggability of targets is a crucial consideration in drug target selection. Here, we adopt
a stochastic semi-supervised ML framework to develop DrugnomeAI, which estimates the …

Taking aim at the undruggable

N Coleman, J Rodon - … Society of Clinical Oncology Educational Book, 2021 - ascopubs.org
The term “undruggable” is used to describe a protein that is not pharmacologically capable
of being targeted; recently, however, substantial efforts have been made to turn these …

Identification of Putative Vaccine and Drug Targets against the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Reverse Vaccinology and Subtractive Genomics …

RS Naorem, BD Pangabam, SS Bora, G Goswami… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an opportunistic pathogen and
responsible for causing life-threatening infections. The emergence of hypervirulent and …

Estimating the similarity between protein pockets

M Eguida, D Rognan - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the exponential increase in publicly available protein structures, the comparison of
protein binding sites naturally emerged as a scientific topic to explain observations or …

Targeted Covalent Modification Strategies for Drugging the Undruggable Targets

T Tamura, M Kawano, I Hamachi - Chemical Reviews, 2025 - ACS Publications
The term “undruggable” refers to proteins or other biological targets that have been
historically challenging to target with conventional drugs or therapeutic strategies because …

Approaches to target tractability assessment–a practical perspective

KK Brown, MM Hann, AS Lakdawala, R Santos… - …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The assessment of the suitability of novel targets to intervention by different modalities, eg
small molecules or antibodies, is increasingly seen as important in helping to select the most …