Machine Learning Platform to Discover Novel Growth Inhibitors of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Journal: Pharmaceutical research
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Abstract

PURPOSE: To advance fundamental biological and translational research with the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae through the prediction of novel small molecule growth inhibitors via naïve Bayesian modeling methodology.

Authors

  • Janaina Cruz Pereira
    Fiocruz, 4365 Avenida Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21040 900, Brazil.
  • Samer S Daher
    Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School, I-503 185 South Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA.
  • Kimberley M Zorn
    Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , 840 Main Campus Drive, Lab 3510 , Raleigh , North Carolina 27606 , United States.
  • Matthew Sherwood
    Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School, I-503 185 South Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA.
  • Riccardo Russo
    Department of Medicine, Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens, Rutgers University Newark New Jersey 07103 USA.
  • Alexander L Perryman
    Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, and the Ruy V. Lourenço Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, 07103, USA.
  • Xin Wang
    Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science & Technology (Northeast Forestry University), Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China.
  • Madeleine J Freundlich
    Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 1200 Stuart Road, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA.
  • Sean Ekins
    Collaborations in Chemistry, 5616 Hilltop Needmore Road, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526, USA; Collaborative Drug Discovery, 1633 Bayshore Highway, Suite 342, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA; Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 5616 Hilltop Needmore Road, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526, USA; Phoenix Nest, Inc., P.O. Box 150057, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA; Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation, 401 Park Avenue South, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA. Electronic address: ekinssean@yahoo.com.
  • Joel S Freundlich
    Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, and the Ruy V. Lourenço Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, 07103, USA. freundjs@rutgers.edu.