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ArticleChemical science2026

Syndirella: synthesis-directed fragment elaboration enables extensive and cost-effective binding site exploration beyond catalog compounds.

Kate K Fieseler, Max Winokan, Joseph A Morrone, Charlotte M Deane, Frank von Delft, Warren Thompson

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Kate K FieselerOxford Protein Informatics Group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3LB UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0211-8558
Max WinokanResearch Complex at Harwell Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Didcot OX11 0FA UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1318-4422
Joseph A MorroneIBM TJ Watson Research Center, IBM Research 1101 Kitchawan Rd, Yorktown Heights NY 10598 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8550-4854
Charlotte M DeaneOxford Protein Informatics Group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3LB UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1388-2252
Frank von DelftResearch Complex at Harwell Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Didcot OX11 0FA UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0378-0017
Warren ThompsonResearch Complex at Harwell Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Didcot OX11 0FA UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1474-7810

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Abstract

Fragment screens provide an information-rich starting point for designing derivative compounds in structure-based drug discovery. However, derivatives in the fragment-to-hit stage are typically designed from only one or a few fragments, risking premature convergence on an unproductive series and dramatically limiting exploration of the binding site's interaction opportunities. This is avoidable by exploring a broad, chemically diverse set of scaffolds and elaborations spanning interactions revealed across many fragments, as well as those not yet observed. Conventional catalog procurement makes this breadth of testing prohibitively expensive for early discovery. In-house high-throughput (HT) synthesis can raise interaction productivity, the number of unique predicted protein-ligand interactions achievable within a given budget, by lowering the cost per compound, including labor and consumables, yet no design tool exists for this purpose. We introduce

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