Title
iDrug: a web-accessible and interactive drug discovery and design platform.
Abstract
The progress in computer-aided drug design (CADD) approaches over the past decades accelerated the early-stage pharmaceutical research. Many powerful standalone tools for CADD have been developed in academia. As programs are developed by various research groups, a consistent user-friendly online graphical working environment, combining computational techniques such as pharmacophore mapping, similarity calculation, scoring, and target identification is needed.We presented a versatile, user-friendly, and efficient online tool for computer-aided drug design based on pharmacophore and 3D molecular similarity searching. The web interface enables binding sites detection, virtual screening hits identification, and drug targets prediction in an interactive manner through a seamless interface to all adapted packages (e.g., Cavity, PocketV.2, PharmMapper, SHAFTS). Several commercially available compound databases for hit identification and a well-annotated pharmacophore database for drug targets prediction were integrated in iDrug as well. The web interface provides tools for real-time molecular building/editing, converting, displaying, and analyzing. All the customized configurations of the functional modules can be accessed through featured session files provided, which can be saved to the local disk and uploaded to resume or update the history work.iDrug is easy to use, and provides a novel, fast and reliable tool for conducting drug design experiments. By using iDrug, various molecular design processing tasks can be submitted and visualized simply in one browser without installing locally any standalone modeling softwares. iDrug is accessible free of charge at http://lilab.ecust.edu.cn/idrug.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1186/1758-2946-6-28
J. Cheminformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
cavity detection,3d similarity calculation,target prediction,pharmacophore search,online drug design platform
Pharmacophore,Data mining,Drug discovery,Computer science,Upload,Computer Aided Design,Installation,Bioinformatics,Virtual screening
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
1
1758-2946
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.42
32
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xia Wang150.42
Haipeng Chen2397.64
Feng Yang350.42
Jiayu Gong450.42
Shiliang Li5172.76
Jianfeng Pei6416.72
Xiaofeng Liu7403.26
Hualiang Jiang850.42
Luhua Lai936933.78
Honglin Li1025618.16