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Breaking C-F bonds in drugs

Metabolite Tales Blog

In 2021, almost one third of FDA approved drugs contained at least one fluorine. This was surprising given that replacement of a phenyl with a pyrimidine and fluorination of aryl or heteroaryl rings are techniques often used to increase metabolic stability. Bourgeois, James A. Perkins, Arsany A. Abouda, Kahari J.

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Metabolism of 2022 FDA approved small molecule drugs PART 2

Metabolite Tales Blog

Metabolism of 2022 FDA approved small molecule drugs part 2 Mixing it Up By Julia Shanu-Wilson In Part 1 of this topic we looked at metabolism of the small molecule drugs approved by the FDA in 2022 that were mediated by CYP3A4. link] [2] Zhang and Tang, 2018. 2018 Sep;8(5):721-732.

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We Need Better Benchmarks for Machine Learning in Drug Discovery

Practical Cheminformatics

I wrote more about the problems with this dataset in a Practical Cheminformatics post in 2018. Clintox – This dataset consists of 1483 SMILES strings and two binary labels indicating whether a molecule is an FDA-approved drug and whether a toxicity outcome has been reported. I have a few ideas.

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