Increasing the coverage of medicinal chemistry-relevant space in commercial fragments screening

J Chem Inf Model. 2014 Jan 27;54(1):79-85. doi: 10.1021/ci400632y. Epub 2014 Jan 9.

Abstract

Analyzing the chemical space coverage in commercial fragment screening collections revealed the overlap between bioactive medicinal chemistry substructures and rule-of-three compliant fragments is only ∼25%. We recommend including these fragments in fragment screening libraries to maximize confidence in discovering hit matter within known bioactive chemical space, while incorporation of nonoverlapping substructures could offer novel hits in screening libraries. Using principal component analysis, polar and three-dimensional substructures display a higher-than-average enrichment of bioactive compounds, indicating increasing representation of these substructures may be beneficial in fragment screening.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Chemistry, Pharmaceutical / methods*
  • Chemistry, Pharmaceutical / statistics & numerical data
  • Computational Biology
  • Databases, Chemical
  • Databases, Pharmaceutical
  • Drug Discovery / methods*
  • Drug Discovery / statistics & numerical data
  • Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / methods*
  • Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / statistics & numerical data
  • Models, Cardiovascular
  • Molecular Structure
  • Principal Component Analysis