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ReviewMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids2023

Artificial intelligence for drug discovery: Resources, methods, and applications.

Wei Chen, Xuesong Liu, Sanyin Zhang, Shilin Chen

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Review in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

85 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Wei ChenState Key Laboratory of Southwestern Chinese Medicine Resources, Innovative Institute of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China.
Xuesong LiuCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Sanyin ZhangState Key Laboratory of Southwestern Chinese Medicine Resources, Innovative Institute of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China.
Shilin ChenState Key Laboratory of Southwestern Chinese Medicine Resources, Innovative Institute of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conventional wet laboratory testing, validations, and synthetic procedures are costly and time-consuming for drug discovery. Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have revolutionized their applications to drug discovery. Combined with accessible data resources, AI techniques are changing the landscape of drug discovery. In the past decades, a series of AI-based models have been developed for various steps of drug discovery. These models have been used as complements of conventional experiments and have accelerated the drug discovery process. In this review, we first introduced the widely used data resources in drug discovery, such as ChEMBL and DrugBank, followed by the molecular representation schemes that convert data into computer-readable formats. Meanwhile, we summarized the algorithms used to develop AI-based models for drug discovery. Subsequently, we discussed the applications of AI techniques in pharmaceutical analysis including predicting drug toxicity, drug bioactivity, and drug physicochemical property. Furthermore, we introduced the AI-based models for de novo drug design, drug-target structure prediction, drug-target interaction, and binding affinity prediction. Moreover, we also highlighted the advanced applications of AI in drug synergism/antagonism prediction and nanomedicine design. Finally, we discussed the challenges and future perspectives on the applications of AI to drug discovery.

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artificial intelligencebioinformaticsdata resourcesdrug discovery and developmentmolecular descriptorsMT: Bioinformatics

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PMID36923950
PMCPMC10009646

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