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Breaking C-F bonds in drugs

Metabolite Tales Blog

Now >20% of all commercialised medicines in the pharmaceutical industry contain a fluorine atom [2]. 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. 2022), JBMR Plus, 6: e10557. Benjamin M.

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How the AI revolution can accelerate early drug discovery

Drug Target Review

Training AI/ML tools to predict results of otherwise complex and time-consuming calculations is gaining traction in pharmaceutical R&D. To really benefit from AI, the pharmaceutical industry must be more open to data sharing. Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry | Congressional Budget Office [Internet].

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We Need Better Benchmarks for Machine Learning in Drug Discovery

Practical Cheminformatics

Most pharmaceutical compounds tend to have solubilities somewhere between 1 and 500 µM. In a 2022 review by Haddad of the CNS penetration of antibiotics, the percentage of Ceftriaxone in CSF relative to plasma varied between 0.5 Many have suggested that pharmaceutical companies should open more of their data to the community.

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Metabolism of five membered nitrogen containing heterocycles

Metabolite Tales Blog

2018, 26, 965-972 [link] 4a Pharmaceutics, 2022, 14, 1001 [link] 5 Phys. 2017, 30, 1, 13–37 [link] 2a Drug Metab. 2006 , 34, 145-51 [link] 3 Drug Metab. 1980, 8, 34-38 [link] 4 J. Food Drug Anal. 2000, 2, 195-201 [link] 6 Biochem. 1966 98, 266-277 [link] 7 Metabolites. 2023, 13, 1, 92- [link] 8 J.

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AI in Drug Discovery 2023 - A Highly Opinionated Literature Review (Part I)

Practical Cheminformatics

2022 saw the emergence of deep learning (DL) methods for docking. Prospective Validation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion Prediction: An Industrial Perspective [link] One of my favorite papers of 2023 provided a tour de force in method comparison. Can We Build Better Benchmarks?

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