Artificial intelligence in drug toxicity prediction: recent advances, challenges, and future perspectives

TTV Tran, A Surya Wibowo, H Tayara… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Toxicity prediction is a critical step in the drug discovery process that helps identify and
prioritize compounds with the greatest potential for safe and effective use in humans, while …

Open access in silico tools to predict the ADMET profiling of drug candidates

S Kar, J Leszczynski - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction We are in an era of bioinformatics and cheminformatics where we can predict
data in the fields of medicine, the environment, engineering and public health. Approaches …

Investigating cardiotoxicity related with hERG channel blockers using molecular fingerprints and graph attention mechanism

T Wang, J Sun, Q Zhao - Computers in biology and medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Human ether-a-go-go-related gene (hERG) channel blockade by small molecules is a big
concern during drug development in the pharmaceutical industry. Failure or inhibition of …

[HTML][HTML] Chemistry-intuitive explanation of graph neural networks for molecular property prediction with substructure masking

Z Wu, J Wang, H Du, D Jiang, Y Kang, D Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in molecular property prediction, but
explaining their black-box predictions is still a challenge. Most existing explanation methods …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Human In Silico Drug Trials Demonstrate Higher Accuracy than Animal Models in Predicting Clinical Pro-Arrhythmic Cardiotoxicity

E Passini, OJ Britton, HR Lu, J Rohrbacher… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Early prediction of cardiotoxicity is critical for drug development. Current animal models
raise ethical and translational questions, and have limited accuracy in clinical risk prediction …

Recent advances in the prediction of pharmacokinetics properties in drug design studies: a review

SQ Pantaleão, PO Fernandes, JE Gonçalves… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This review presents the main aspects related to pharmacokinetic properties, which are
essential for the efficacy and safety of drugs. This topic is very important because the …

Interpretation of quantitative structure–activity relationship models: past, present, and future

P Polishchuk - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2017 - ACS Publications
This paper is an overview of the most significant and impactful interpretation approaches of
quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) models, their development, and …

[HTML][HTML] eToxPred: a machine learning-based approach to estimate the toxicity of drug candidates

L Pu, M Naderi, T Liu, HC Wu, S Mukhopadhyay… - BMC Pharmacology and …, 2019 - Springer
Background The efficiency of drug development defined as a number of successfully
launched new pharmaceuticals normalized by financial investments has significantly …

HergSPred: accurate classification of hERG blockers/nonblockers with machine-learning models

X Zhang, J Mao, M Wei, Y Qi… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The human ether-à-go-go-related gene (hERG) K+ channel plays an important role in
cardiac action potentials. The inhibition of the hERG channel may lead to long QT syndrome …