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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2021

DockStream: a docking wrapper to enhance de novo molecular design.

Jeff Guo, Jon Paul Janet, Matthias R Bauer, Eva Nittinger, Kathryn A Giblin, Kostas Papadopoulos, Alexey Voronov, Atanas Patronov, Ola Engkvist, Christian Margreitter

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Article in Journal of cheminformatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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10 authors.

Jeff GuoMolecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jon Paul JanetMedicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Matthias R BauerStructure & Biophysics, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK.
Eva NittingerMedicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Kathryn A GiblinMedicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK.
Kostas PapadopoulosMolecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Alexey VoronovMolecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Atanas PatronovMolecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Ola EngkvistMolecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Christian MargreitterMolecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden. christian.margreitter@astrazeneca.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-6318

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, we have released the de novo design platform REINVENT in version 2.0. This improved and extended iteration supports far more features and scoring function components, which allows bespoke and tailor-made protocols to maximize impact in small molecule drug discovery projects. A major obstacle of generative models is producing active compounds, in which predictive (QSAR) models have been applied to enrich target activity. However, QSAR models are inherently limited by their applicability domains. To overcome these limitations, we introduce a structure-based scoring component for REINVENT. DockStream is a flexible, stand-alone molecular docking wrapper that provides access to a collection of ligand embedders and docking backends. Using the benchmarking and analysis workflow provided in DockStream, execution and subsequent analysis of a variety of docking configurations can be automated. Docking algorithms vary greatly in performance depending on the target and the benchmarking and analysis workflow provides a streamlined solution to identifying productive docking configurations. We show that an informative docking configuration can inform the REINVENT agent to optimize towards improving docking scores using public data. With docking activated, REINVENT is able to retain key interactions in the binding site, discard molecules which do not fit the binding cavity, harness unused (sub-)pockets, and improve overall performance in the scaffold-hopping scenario. The code is freely available at https://github.com/MolecularAI/DockStream .

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De novo designGenerative ModelsMolecular dockingReinforcement Learning (RL)Structure-based drug discovery (SBDD)

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PMID34789335
PMCPMC8596819

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