Past, present, and future perspectives on computer-aided drug design methodologies

D Bassani, S Moro - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The application of computational approaches in drug discovery has been consolidated in
the last decades. These families of techniques are usually grouped under the common …

Characterizing the ligand-binding affinity toward SARS-CoV-2 Mpro via physics-and knowledge-based approaches

ST Ngo, TH Nguyen, NT Tung, VV Vu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Computational approaches, including physics-and knowledge-based methods, have
commonly been used to determine the ligand-binding affinity toward SARS-CoV-2 main …

Benchmark of popular free energy approaches revealing the inhibitors binding to SARS-CoV-2 Mpro

ST Ngo, NM Tam, MQ Pham… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed millions of people worldwide since its outbreak in
December 2019. The pandemic is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus whose main protease …

De novo design and bioactivity prediction of SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors using recurrent neural network-based transfer learning

MVS Santana, FP Silva-Jr - BMC chemistry, 2021 - Springer
The global pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) created a rush to discover drug candidates …

Lead discovery of SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors through covalent docking-based virtual screening

G Amendola, R Ettari, S Previti, C Di Chio… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
During almost all 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has constituted the
major risk for the worldwide health and economy, propelling unprecedented efforts to …

Binding mechanism of inhibitors to SARS-CoV-2 main protease deciphered by multiple replica molecular dynamics simulations

S Liang, X Liu, S Zhang, M Li, Q Zhang… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The outbreak caused by SARS-CoV-2 has received extensive worldwide attention. As the
main protease (Mpro) in SARS-CoV-2 has no human homologues, it is feasible to reduce …

Improving ligand‐ranking of AutoDock Vina by changing the empirical parameters

TNH Pham, TH Nguyen, NM Tam… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract AutoDock Vina (Vina) achieved a very high docking‐success rate,, but give a rather
low correlation coefficient,, for binding affinity with respect to experiments. This low …

Insights into the binding and covalent inhibition mechanism of PF-07321332 to SARS-CoV-2 M pro

ST Ngo, TH Nguyen, NT Tung, BK Mai - Rsc Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been causing the
COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in several million deaths being reported. Numerous …

New Halogenated Compounds from Halimeda macroloba Seaweed with Potential Inhibitory Activity against Malaria

AH Elmaidomy, EM Zahran, R Soltane, A Alasiri… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Malaria is one of the most important infectious diseases worldwide. The causative of the
most severe forms of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, has developed resistances against …

Searching for potential inhibitors of SARS-COV-2 main protease using supervised learning and perturbation calculations

TH Nguyen, NM Tam, M Van Tuan, P Zhan, VV Vu… - Chemical Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Inhibiting the biological activity of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro can prevent viral replication. In this
context, a hybrid approach using knowledge-and physics-based methods was proposed to …