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ReviewMolecular informatics2022

Chemical Multiverse: An Expanded View of Chemical Space.

José L Medina-Franco, Ana L Chávez-Hernández, Edgar López-López, Fernanda I Saldívar-González

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Review in Molecular informatics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Representative Random Sampling of Chemical Space.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  16. Growth vs Diversity: A Time-Evolution Analysis of the Chemical Space.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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  20. Chemical space as a unifying theme for chemistry.Journal of cheminformatics · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

José L Medina-FrancoDIFACQUIM research group, Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-1107
Ana L Chávez-HernándezDIFACQUIM research group, Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico.
Edgar López-LópezDepartment of Pharmacology, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV), Mexico City, 07360, Mexico.
Fernanda I Saldívar-GonzálezDIFACQUIM research group, Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Technological advances and practical applications of the chemical space concept in drug discovery, natural product research, and other research areas have attracted the scientific community's attention. The large- and ultra-large chemical spaces are associated with the significant increase in the number of compounds that can potentially be made and exist and the increasing number of experimental and calculated descriptors, that are emerging that encode the molecular structure and/or property aspects of the molecules. Due to the importance and continued evolution of compound libraries, herein, we discuss definitions proposed in the literature for chemical space and emphasize the convenience, discussed in the literature to use complementary descriptors to obtain a comprehensive view of the chemical space of compound data sets. In this regard, we introduce the term chemical multiverse to refer to the comprehensive analysis of compound data sets through several chemical spaces, each defined by a different set of chemical representations. The chemical multiverse is contrasted with a related idea: consensus chemical space.

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Biological ProductsSmall Molecule LibrariesDrug DiscoveryMolecular StructureStructure-Activity RelationshipBiological ProductsSmall Molecule Librarieschemical multiversechemical spacedrug discoverymachine learningmolecular representationstructure-property relationshipsultra-large chemical libraryvisualization

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PMID35916110
PMCPMC9787733

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