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ReviewNature communications2025

Where and how to house big data on small fragments.

Daniel A Erlanson, Stephen K Burley, Daren Fearon, James S Fraser, Dale Kreitler, Maria Cristina Nonato, Naoki Sakai, Jan Wollenhaupt, Manfred S Weiss

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Halogen bonds between ligands and proteins: Can we use them in validation?Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
    Article
  5. Ten rules for a structural bioinformatic analysis.PLoS computational biology · 2025
    Article
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  7. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Daniel A ErlansonFrontier Medicines Corporation, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8807-4159
Stephen K BurleyRCSB Protein Data Bank, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2487-9713
Daren FearonDiamond Light Source Ltd, Research Complex at Harwell, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3529-7863
James S FraserDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5080-2859
Dale KreitlerBrookhaven National Laboratory, NSLS-II, Upton, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4758-7913
Maria Cristina NonatoCenter for the Research and Advancement in Fragments and Molecular Targets (CRAFT), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4916-1505
Naoki SakaiStructural Biology Division, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo-gun, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8544-1187
Jan WollenhauptProteros Biostructures GmbH, Martinsried, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3418-5213
Manfred S WeissHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Macromolecular Crystallography, Berlin, Germany. manfred.weiss@helmholtz-berlin.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-7047

Funding

Equipment for Discovering and Manipulating Macromolecular Conformational EnsemblesR35GM145238 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI James Solomon Fraser · 2022 to 2026
$3.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM145238
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fragment screening by crystallography has recently skyrocketed. Multiple synchrotrons have built specialized screening platforms, established workflows, and assembled compound libraries. Crystallographic fragment screening is now widely accessible to groups that had previously not considered the approach. While hundreds of crystallographic fragment-screening campaigns have been conducted in the last few years, most of the underlying data have neither been published nor made publicly accessible. This perspective highlights the importance of establishing effective mechanisms for preserving large and often heterogeneous groups of datasets intrinsic to crystallographic fragment-screening campaigns, thereby ensuring their accessibility for advancing research and enabling applications such as training AI-based models.

Indexed as

Big DataDrug DiscoverySmall Molecule LibrariesCrystallography, X-RayHumansSmall Molecule Libraries

Identifiers

PMID40325009
PMCPMC12052810

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