Expert opinion on drug discovery
Feb 1, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Modern drug discovery incorporates various tools and data, heralding the beginning of the data-driven drug design (DD) era. The distributions of chemical and physical data used for Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) and ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 31, 2024
Predicting compound activity in assays is a long-standing challenge in drug discovery. Computational models based on compound-induced gene expression signatures from a single profiling assay have shown promise toward predicting compound activity in o...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 31, 2024
Solute carrier transporters (SLCs) are a class of important transmembrane proteins that are involved in the transportation of diverse solute ions and small molecules into cells. There are approximately 450 SLCs within the human body, and more than a ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 30, 2024
SerotoninAI is an innovative web application for scientific purposes focused on the serotonergic system. By leveraging SerotoninAI, researchers can assess the affinity (pKi value) of a molecule to all main serotonin receptors and serotonin transporte...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 30, 2024
The incredible capabilities of generative artificial intelligence models have inevitably led to their application in the domain of drug discovery. Within this domain, the vastness of chemical space motivates the development of more efficient methods ...
Methods (San Diego, Calif.)
Jan 28, 2024
The accurate identification of drug-protein interactions (DPIs) is crucial in drug development, especially concerning G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are vital targets in drug discovery. However, experimental validation of GPCR-drug pairin...
Transboundary and emerging diseases
Jan 17, 2024
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Nature communications
Jan 15, 2024
Structural diversification of lead molecules is a key component of drug discovery to explore chemical space. Late-stage functionalizations (LSFs) are versatile methodologies capable of installing functional handles on richly decorated intermediates t...
Scientific reports
Jan 12, 2024
Generative Artificial Intelligence can be an important asset in the drug discovery process to meet the demand for novel medicines. This work outlines the optimization and fine-tuning steps of MedGAN, a deep learning model based on Wasserstein Generat...
Current opinion in structural biology
Jan 11, 2024
In drug discovery, targeted polypharmacology, i.e., targeting multiple molecular targets with a single drug, is redefining therapeutic design to address complex diseases. Pre-selected pharmacological profiles, as exemplified in kinase drugs, promise ...