The SwissSimilarity 2021 Web Tool: Novel Chemical Libraries and Additional Methods for an Enhanced Ligand-Based Virtual Screening Experience.
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serval:BIB_9174E37AD078
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
The SwissSimilarity 2021 Web Tool: Novel Chemical Libraries and Additional Methods for an Enhanced Ligand-Based Virtual Screening Experience.
Journal
International journal of molecular sciences
ISSN
1422-0067 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1422-0067
Publication state
Published
Issued date
12/01/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
23
Number
2
Pages
811
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: epublish
Publication Status: epublish
Abstract
Hit finding, scaffold hopping, and structure-activity relationship studies are important tasks in rational drug discovery. Implementation of these tasks strongly depends on the availability of compounds similar to a known bioactive molecule. SwissSimilarity is a web tool for low-to-high-throughput virtual screening of multiple chemical libraries to find molecules similar to a compound of interest. According to the similarity principle, the output list of molecules generated by SwissSimilarity is expected to be enriched in compounds that are likely to share common protein targets with the query molecule and that can, therefore, be acquired and tested experimentally in priority. Compound libraries available for screening using SwissSimilarity include approved drugs, clinical candidates, known bioactive molecules, commercially available and synthetically accessible compounds. The first version of SwissSimilarity launched in 2015 made use of various 2D and 3D molecular descriptors, including path-based FP2 fingerprints and ElectroShape vectors. However, during the last few years, new fingerprinting methods for molecular description have been developed or have become popular. Here we would like to announce the launch of the new version of the SwissSimilarity web tool, which features additional 2D and 3D methods for estimation of molecular similarity: extended-connectivity, MinHash, 2D pharmacophore, extended reduced graph, and extended 3D fingerprints. Moreover, it is now possible to screen for molecular structures having the same scaffold as the query compound. Additionally, all compound libraries available for screening in SwissSimilarity have been updated, and several new ones have been added to the list. Finally, the interface of the website has been comprehensively rebuilt to provide a better user experience. The new version of SwissSimilarity is freely available starting from December 2021.
Keywords
Databases, Pharmaceutical, Drug Design, Drug Discovery/methods, Humans, Ligands, Models, Molecular, Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship, Small Molecule Libraries, Software, User-Computer Interface, Web Browser, drug discovery, ligand-based virtual screening, molecular fingerprints, similarity search
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Web of science
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31/01/2022 11:37
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21/03/2023 6:47