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The Pan-Canadian Chemical Library: A Mechanism to Open Academic Chemistry to High-Throughput Virtual Screening.

Corentin Bedart, Grace Shimokura, Frederick G West, Tabitha E Wood, Robert A Batey, John J Irwin, Matthieu Schapira

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Article in Scientific data, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  4. Generative AI for navigating synthesizable chemical space.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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Corentin BedartStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1L7, Canada.
Grace ShimokuraDavenport Research Laboratories, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6, Canada.
Frederick G WestDepartment of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2, Canada.
Tabitha E WoodDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2E9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5433-6883
Robert A BateyDavenport Research Laboratories, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6, Canada.
John J IrwinDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA. jji@cgl.ucsf.edu.
Matthieu SchapiraStructural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1L7, Canada. matthieu.schapira@utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-1047-3309

Funding

A Web-Based Automatic Virtual Screening SystemR01GM071896 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO · PI IRWIN, JOHN J. · 2004 to 2024
$6.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM071896
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computationally screening chemical libraries to discover molecules with desired properties is a common technique used in early-stage drug discovery. Recent progress in the field now enables the efficient exploration of billions of molecules within days or hours, but this exploration remains confined within the boundaries of the accessible chemistry space. While the number of commercially available compounds grows rapidly, it remains a limited subset of all druglike small molecules that could be synthesized. Here, we present a workflow where chemical reactions typically developed in academia and unconventional in drug discovery are exploited to dramatically expand the chemistry space accessible to virtual screening. We use this process to generate a first version of the Pan-Canadian Chemical Library, a collection of nearly 150 billion diverse compounds that does not overlap with other ultra-large libraries such as Enamine REAL or SAVI and could be a resource of choice for protein targets where other libraries have failed to deliver bioactive molecules.

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Drug DiscoveryHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysSmall Molecule LibrariesCanadaSmall Molecule Libraries

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PMID38844472
PMCPMC11156877

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