AIMC Topic: Drug Evaluation, Preclinical

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Experimental design strategy: weak reinforcement leads to increased hit rates and enhanced chemical diversity.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
High Throughput Screening (HTS) is a common approach in life sciences to discover chemical matter that modulates a biological target or phenotype. However, low assay throughput, reagents cost, or a flowchart that can deal with only a limited number o...

Systematic artifacts in support vector regression-based compound potency prediction revealed by statistical and activity landscape analysis.

PloS one
Support vector machines are a popular machine learning method for many classification tasks in biology and chemistry. In addition, the support vector regression (SVR) variant is widely used for numerical property predictions. In chemoinformatics and ...

On the application of artificial intelligence in virtual screening.

Expert opinion on drug discovery
INTRODUCTION: Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool in drug discovery, particularly in virtual screening (VS), a crucial initial step in identifying potential drug candidates. This article highlights the significance of AI...

Advancements in Ligand-Based Virtual Screening through the Synergistic Integration of Graph Neural Networks and Expert-Crafted Descriptors.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
The fusion of traditional chemical descriptors with graph neural networks (GNNs) offers a compelling strategy for enhancing ligand-based virtual screening methodologies. A comprehensive evaluation revealed that the benefits derived from this integrat...

Integrating Machine Learning-Based Pose Sampling with Established Scoring Functions for Virtual Screening.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
Physics-based docking methods have long been the cornerstone of structure-based virtual screening (VS). However, the emergence of machine learning (ML)-based docking approaches has opened new possibilities for enhancing VS technologies. In this study...

Discovery, Biological Evaluation and Binding Mode Investigation of Novel Butyrylcholinesterase Inhibitors Through Hybrid Virtual Screening.

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), plays a critical role in alleviating the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) by regulating acetylcholine levels, emerging as an attractive target for AD treatment. This study employed a quantitative structure-activity r...

Bioactivity predictions and virtual screening using machine learning predictive model.

Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics
Recently, there has been significant attention on machine learning algorithms for predictive modeling. Prediction models for enzyme inhibitors are limited, and it is essential to account for chemical biases while developing them. The lack of repeatab...

Increase Docking Score Screening Power by Simple Fusion With CNNscore.

Journal of computational chemistry
Scoring functions (SFs) of molecular docking is a vital component of structure-based virtual screening (SBVS). Traditional SFs yield their inherent shortage for idealized approximations and simplifications predicting the binding affinity. Complementa...

COX-2 Inhibitor Prediction With KNIME: A Codeless Automated Machine Learning-Based Virtual Screening Workflow.

Journal of computational chemistry
Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is an enzyme that plays a crucial role in inflammation by converting arachidonic acid into prostaglandins. The overexpression of enzyme is associated with conditions such as cancer, arthritis, and Alzheimer's disease (AD), wh...

An ensemble machine learning model generates a focused screening library for the identification of CDK8 inhibitors.

Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
The identification of an effective inhibitor is an important starting step in drug development. Unfortunately, many issues such as the characterization of protein binding sites, the screening library, materials for assays, etc., make drug screening a...