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ReviewChemical reviews2021

DNA-Encoded Chemistry: Drug Discovery from a Few Good Reactions.

Patrick R Fitzgerald, Brian M Paegel

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
67citing papers in PubMed
11.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 201 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Patrick R FitzgeraldSkaggs Doctoral Program in the Chemical and Biological Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9324-2134
Brian M PaegelDepartments of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, & Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 101 Theory Suite 100, Irvine, California 92617, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6531-6693
Scripps Research Institute · US

Funding

High-Throughput Droplet-Scale Functional Screening of DNA-Encoded Combinatorial LibrariesR01GM120491 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI PAEGEL, BRIAN M · 2017 to 2020
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120491
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Click chemistry, proposed nearly 20 years ago, promised access to novel chemical space by empowering combinatorial library synthesis with a "few good reactions". These click reactions fulfilled key criteria (broad scope, quantitative yield, abundant starting material, mild reaction conditions, and high chemoselectivity), keeping the focus on molecules that would be easy to make, yet structurally diverse. This philosophy bears a striking resemblance to DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology, the now-dominant combinatorial chemistry paradigm. This review highlights the similarities between click and DEL reaction design and deployment in combinatorial library settings, providing a framework for the design of new DEL synthesis technologies to enable next-generation drug discovery.

Indexed as

Click ChemistryCombinatorial Chemistry TechniquesDNADrug DiscoverySmall Molecule LibrariesDNASmall Molecule Libraries

Identifiers

PMID33044817
PMCPMC8345262
OpenAlexW3092211024

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