European journal of medicinal chemistry
Apr 5, 2025
Bioactivity optimization is a crucial and technical task in the early stages of drug discovery, traditionally carried out through iterative substituent optimization, a process that is often both time-consuming and expensive. To address this challenge...
European journal of medicinal chemistry
Jan 10, 2025
Machine learning (ML) has become an important tool for predicting the pharmaceutical properties of small molecules. Recent advancements in ML algorithms enable the rapid and accurate evaluation of solubility, activity, toxicity, pharmacokinetics, and...
European journal of medicinal chemistry
Dec 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming drug discovery by overcoming traditional challenges like high costs, time-consuming, and frequent failures. AI-driven approaches streamline key phases, including target identific...
European journal of medicinal chemistry
Dec 10, 2024
Drug design has always been pursuing techniques with time- and cost-benefits. Virtual screening, generally classified as ligand-based (LBVS) and structure-based (SBVS) approaches, could identify active compounds in the large chemical library to reduc...
European journal of medicinal chemistry
Sep 29, 2024
Deep learning has gained increasing attention in recent years, yielding promising results in hit screening and molecular optimization. Herein, we employed an efficient strategy based on multiple deep learning techniques to optimize Wee1 inhibitors, w...
European journal of medicinal chemistry
Sep 6, 2024
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a highly targeted, selective and effective technique to cure various types of cancers, with less harm to the healthy cells. In principle, BNCT treatment needs to distribute the boron (B) atoms inside the tumor ...
European journal of medicinal chemistry
Aug 26, 2024
The ample peptide field is the best source for discovering clinically available novel antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) to address emerging drug resistance. However, discovering novel AMPs is complex and expensive, representing a major challenge. Recent ...
European journal of medicinal chemistry
Aug 16, 2024
Malaria remains a significant global health challenge due to the growing drug resistance of Plasmodium parasites and the failure to block transmission within human host. While machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods have shown promise in...
European journal of medicinal chemistry
Jul 31, 2024
The molecular generation models based on protein structures represent a cutting-edge research direction in artificial intelligence-assisted drug discovery. This article aims to comprehensively summarize the research methods and developments by analyz...
European journal of medicinal chemistry
Jun 25, 2024
Macrocyclic peptides possess unique features, making them highly promising as a drug modality. However, evaluating their bioactivity through wet lab experiments is generally resource-intensive and time-consuming. Despite advancements in artificial in...