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ReviewBriefings in bioinformatics2022

Computational anti-COVID-19 drug design: progress and challenges.

Jinxian Wang, Ying Zhang, Wenjuan Nie, Yi Luo, Lei Deng

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Review in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jinxian WangSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University,410075, Changsha, China.
Ying ZhangDepartment of Pharmacy, Heilongjiang Province Land Reclamation Headquarters General Hospital, 150001, Harbin, China.
Wenjuan NieSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University,410075, Changsha, China.
Yi LuoSchool of Science, The University of Auckland,Auckland 1010, Auckland, New Zealand.
Lei DengSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University,410075, Changsha, China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 61972422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccines have made gratifying progress in preventing the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the emergence of variants, especially the latest delta variant, has brought considerable challenges to human health. Hence, the development of robust therapeutic approaches, such as anti-COVID-19 drug design, could aid in managing the pandemic more efficiently. Some drug design strategies have been successfully applied during the COVID-19 pandemic to create and validate related lead drugs. The computational drug design methods used for COVID-19 can be roughly divided into (i) structure-based approaches and (ii) artificial intelligence (AI)-based approaches. Structure-based approaches investigate different molecular fragments and functional groups through lead drugs and apply relevant tools to produce antiviral drugs. AI-based approaches usually use end-to-end learning to explore a larger biochemical space to design antiviral drugs. This review provides an overview of the two design strategies of anti-COVID-19 drugs, the advantages and disadvantages of these strategies and discussions of future developments.

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Antiviral AgentsCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug DesignMachine LearningHumansSARS-CoV-2Antiviral Agentsartificial intelligencecomputational drug designCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2structure-based

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PMID34850817
PMCPMC8690229

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