Title
A validation study on the practical use of automated de novo design.
Abstract
The de novo design program Skelgen has been used to design inhibitor structures for four targets of pharmaceutical interest. The designed structures are compared to modeled binding modes of known inhibitors (i) visually and (ii) by means of a novel similarity measure considering the size and spatial proximity of the maximum common substructure of two small molecules. It is shown that the Skelgen algorithm generates representatives of many inhibitor classes within a very short time and that the new similarity measure is useful for comparing and clustering designed structures. The results demonstrate the necessity of properly defining search constraints in practical applications of de novo design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1023/A:1021242018286
Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
de novo design, simulated annealing, drug design, optimization, cyclooxygenase, cyclin dependent kinase, matrix metalloproteinase, estrogen receptor, molecular similarity, maximum common substructure
Simulated annealing,Data mining,Biology,Similarity measure,Bioinformatics,Cluster analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
7
1573-4951
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.57
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Stahl1807.19
Nikolay P. Todorov2287.24
Timothy James370.96
Harald Mauser4412.94
Hans-joachim Böhm526754.47
Philip M. Dean67914.49