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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

A Structure-Based Computational Pipeline for Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Discovery.

Maria A Castellanos, Alexander M Payne, Jenke Scheen, Hugo MacDermott-Opeskin, Iván Pulido, Blake H Balcomb, Ed J Griffen, Daren Fearon, Haim Barr, Noa Lahav and 5 more

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Maria A CastellanosComputational and Systems Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9677-9615
Alexander M PayneComputational and Systems Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0947-0191
Jenke ScheenOpen Molecular Software Foundation, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9781-0445
Hugo MacDermott-OpeskinOpen Molecular Software Foundation, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7393-7457
Iván PulidoComputational and Systems Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7178-8136
Blake H BalcombDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Fermi Ave, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7599-8467
Ed J GriffenASAP Discovery Consortium and MedChemica Consultancy Ltd, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 6DU, UK.
Daren FearonDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Fermi Ave, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3529-7863
Haim BarrWeizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9192-3983
Noa LahavWeizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
David CousinsASAP Discovery Consortium and MedChemica Consultancy Ltd, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 6DU, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9945-769X
Jessica StaceyASAP Discovery Consortium and MedChemica Consultancy Ltd, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 6DU, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6932-8539
Ralph RobinsonThames Pharma Partners.
Bruce LefkerThames Pharma Partners.
John D ChoderaComputational and Systems Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0542-119X

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Target enablementU19AI171399 · NIAID · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI CHODERA, JOHN DAMON, LEE, ALPHA ALBERT · 2022 to 2025
$89.8M
Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical BiologyT32GM115327 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI TAN, DEREK S · 2015 to 2019
$741k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI171399NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM115327
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid emergence of viruses with pandemic potential continues to pose a threat to public health worldwide. With the typical drug discovery pipeline taking an average of 5-10 years to reach clinical readiness, there is an urgent need for strategies to develop broad-spectrum antivirals that can target multiple viral family members and variants of concern. We present a structure-based computational pipeline designed to identify and evaluate broad-spectrum inhibitors across viral family members for a given target in order to support spectrum breadth assessment and prioritization in lead optimization programs. This pipeline comprises three key steps: (1) an automated search to identify viral sequences related to a specified target construct, (2) pose prediction leveraging any available structural data, and (3) scoring of protein-ligand complexes to estimate antiviral activity breadth. The pipeline is implemented using the drugforge package: an open-source toolkit for structure-based antiviral discovery. To validate this framework, we retrospectively evaluated two overlapping datasets of ligands bound to the SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV main protease (M

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PMCPMC12324269

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