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Clustering Fragment Screening Hits With a Self-Organizing Map

Practical Cheminformatics

Download the structures from the PDB The supporting information for the paper has a list of the PDB ids for the structures. Prody made it easy to programmatically download a lot of structures. Here's a quick outline of the workflow.

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What Do Molecules That Look LIke This Tend To Do?

Practical Cheminformatics

In this post, we'll take a look at how we can use an Open Source Python library to search the ChEMBL database and investigate the biology associated with compounds similar to a screening hit. Introduction A question that invariably comes up when examing screening hits is "what do molecules that look like this tend to do?".