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

Practical Cheminformatics

The papers covered here reflect my research interests and biases, and I’ve certainly overlooked areas that others consider vital. 2022 saw the emergence of deep learning (DL) methods for docking. Here’s the first part of my review of some interesting machine learning (ML) papers I read in 2023. Docking into AlphaFold2 Structures 3.

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Metabolism of five membered nitrogen containing heterocycles

Metabolite Tales Blog

Bicyclic structures containing five membered rings such as indoles, consisting of a six-membered benzene ring fused to a five-membered pyrrole ring, are also increasingly relevant as growing research fields such as psychedelics make use of these scaffolds, often found in natural products. 2017, 30, 1, 13–37 [link] 2a Drug Metab.