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ArticleScientific reports2024

QSPR/QSAR study of antiviral drugs modeled as multigraphs by using TI's and MLR method to treat COVID-19 disease.

Ugasini Preetha P, M Suresh, Fikadu Tesgera Tolasa, Ebenezer Bonyah

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Ugasini Preetha P *Department of Mathematics, College of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, 603203, India.
M Suresh *Department of Mathematics, College of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, 603203, India. sureshm@srmist.edu.in.
Fikadu Tesgera Tolasa *Department of Mathematics, Dambi Dollo University, Oromia, Ethiopia. fikadu@dadu.edu.et.
Ebenezer Bonyah *Department of Mathematics Education, Akenten Appiah Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development, Kumasi, Ghana.

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose significant challenges worldwide, despite widespread vaccination. Researchers are actively exploring antiviral treatments to assess their efficacy against emerging virus variants. The aim of the study is to employ M-polynomial, neighborhood M-polynomial approach and QSPR/QSAR analysis to evaluate specific antiviral drugs including Lopinavir, Ritonavir, Arbidol, Thalidomide, Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine, Theaflavin and Remdesivir. Utilizing degree-based and neighborhood degree sum-based topological indices on molecular multigraphs reveals insights into the physicochemical properties of these drugs, such as polar surface area, polarizability, surface tension, boiling point, enthalpy of vaporization, flash point, molar refraction and molar volume are crucial in predicting their efficacy against viruses. These properties influence the solubility, permeability, and bio availability of the drugs, which in turn affect their ability to interact with viral targets and inhibit viral replication. In QSPR analysis, molecular multigraphs yield notable correlation coefficients exceeding those from simple graphs: molar refraction (MR) (0.9860), polarizability (P) (0.9861), surface tension (ST) (0.6086), molar volume (MV) (0.9353) using degree-based indices, and flash point (FP) (0.9781), surface tension (ST) (0.7841) using neighborhood degree sum-based indices. QSAR models, constructed through multiple linear regressions (MLR) with a backward elimination approach at a significance level of 0.05, exhibit promising predictive capabilities highlighting the significance of the biological activity

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Antiviral AgentsCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentQuantitative Structure-Activity RelationshipCOVID-19HumansLinear ModelsSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsAntiviral drugsMolecular multigraphsM-polynomialMultiple linear regressionNM-polynomialQSAR/QSPR

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PMCPMC11711684

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