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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2019

Molecular Docking: Shifting Paradigms in Drug Discovery.

Luca Pinzi, Giulio Rastelli

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 920 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

920 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Luca PinziDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Giuseppe Campi 103, 41125 Modena, Italy. luca.pinzi@unimore.it.
Giulio RastelliDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Giuseppe Campi 103, 41125 Modena, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2474-0607

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular docking is an established in silico structure-based method widely used in drug discovery. Docking enables the identification of novel compounds of therapeutic interest, predicting ligand-target interactions at a molecular level, or delineating structure-activity relationships (SAR), without knowing

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AnimalsDrug DiscoveryDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsHumansMolecular Docking SimulationPolypharmacologyQuantitative Structure-Activity Relationshipadverse drug reactionsdrug discoverydrug repurposingmolecular dockingpolypharmacologyreverse screeningtarget fishing

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PMID31487867
PMCPMC6769923

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