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Starting with the crystal structure of the target, it is possible to screen for leads in three-dimensional compound databases such as the Cambridge... 

Not only does the limited diversity of the compound database curtail the choice of lead, the process for assessing screening hits to see if they define a tractable lead is also limited by resources, particularly in those specialist assays that would predict the ability of the chosen lead class to successfully yield an approval in a particular therapeutic field. The process is therefore driven mainly by consideration of activity against the target. Therefore chemotypes with adequate but less than maximal potency for the target but freedom from damaging side activity remain undetected in this process. 

Compounds were optimized in positive ionization mode and in negative mode if necessary. Automaton can also perform automatic MS method development from solutions containing multiple compounds to increase throughput. When mixture solutions are used, Automaton injects a mixture once to determine all precursor ions and DP values and then injects once per compound to determine product ion and CE value. This approach allows automatic and unattended optimization of MS parameters for hundreds of compounds. The optimized parameters are stored in a compound database that permits fast and efficient retrieval of information about a specific compound and allows a compound to be used in multiple assays, eliminating the need to re-optimize the LC/MS/MS conditions. 

The analytical expression for a given property can be reparametrized, if desired, to apply to a particular class of compounds. Our tendency is usually to have, as general, a database as possible. But for example, Byrd and Rice desired to optimize the heat of sublimation and heat of vaporization equations specifically for nitro derivatives [46]. They retained the dependence on surface area and vofot, but used a nitro compound database to obtain new coefficients for these quantities. 

In conclusion, the 3D pharmacophore and QSAR models presented can be easily used for in silico antitarget screening of compound databases to identify ligands with side affinity and potential al-mediated side effects. 

Diversity parameters for this reference database are shown in Table 12.2. As evident from the number of screens, the number of core heterocyclic fragments, and the diversity coefficients (all these parameters are calculated using the Diversity module [25] of the ChemoSoft software tool), the studied compound database has high structural diversity and can be considered to be a good representation of known GPCR-active compounds. 

Interestingly, the PRCC is relatively free of compounds that violate Lipinski s Rule of Five (ROF) [15] as shown in Table 13.1. Similar ROF behavior has also been observed by Oprea [16] for other compound databases including the ACD and the MDDR (MDL Drug Data Report, MDL Information Systems, San Leandro, CA). 

Table 1 Commercially and Publicly Available Compound Databases and Molecular Informatics Resources (see Section 5) for Chemogenomics Research. The list is not exhaustive, but rather constitutes a representative compilation of selected examples in this field.

Key Words Biological activity chemical features chemical space cluster analysis compound databases dimension reduction molecular descriptors molecule classification partitioning algorithms partitioning in low-dimensional spaces principal component analysis visualization. 

Key Words Biological activity chemical descriptors chemical spaces classification methods compound databases decision trees diversity selection partitioning algorithms space transformation statistics statistical medians. 

Fig. 1. Median partitioning and compound selection. In this schematic illustration, a two-dimensional chemical space is shown as an example. The axes represent the medians of two uncorrelated (and, therefore, orthogonal) descriptors and dots represent database compounds. In A, a compound database is divided in into equal subpopulations in two steps and each resulting partition is characterized by a unique binary code (shared by molecules occupying this partition). In B, diversity-based compound selection is illustrated. From the center of each partition, a compound is selected to obtain a representative subset. By contrast, C illustrates activity-based compound selection. Here, a known active molecule (gray dot) is added to the source database prior to MP and compounds that ultimately occur in the same partition as this bait molecule are selected as candidates for testing. Finally, D illustrates the effects of descriptor correlation. In this case, the two applied descriptors are significantly correlated and the dashed line represents a diagonal of correlation that affects the compound distribution. As can be seen, descriptor correlation leads to over- and underpopulated partitions.

Descriptor median values naturally depend on the composition and size of compound databases. Whenever source databases are changed, reduced, or extended in size, descriptor medians need to be re-calculated to ensure accurate MP analysis. Relatively small changes in median values can significantly alter partitioning results. 

Godden, J. W. and Bajorath, J. (2002) Chemical descriptors with distinct levels of information content and varying sensitivity to differences between selected compound databases identified by SE-DSE analysis. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 42, 87-93. 

The USR (Ultrafast Shape Recognition) Method. This method was reported by Ballester and Richards (53) for compound database search on the basis of molecular shape similarity. It was reportedly capable of screening billions of compounds for similar shapes on a single computer. The method is based on the notion that the relative position of the atoms in a molecule is completely determined by inter-atomic distances. Instead of using all inter-atomic distances, USR uses a subset of distances, reducing the computational costs. Specifically, the distances between all atoms of a molecule to each of four strategic points are calculated. Each set of distances forms a distribution, and the three moments (mean, variance, and skewness) of the four distributions are calculated. Thus, for each molecule, 12 USR descriptors are calculated. The inverse of the translated and scaled Manhattan distance between two shape descriptors is used to measure the similarity between the two molecules. A value of 1 corresponds to maximum similarity and a value of 0 corresponds to minimum similarity. 

Physico-chemical properties and evaluation of potential safety liabilities are important aspects of the library design process. Predicted properties like hERG liability (45), compound aqueous solubility, etc. (46-48) have been extensively studied and included in various library design strategies (49, 50) as a part of multiple constraints optimisation. We have therefore further extended the ProSAR concept to take the library property profile into account in the design process. Several in-house calculated properties are considered these include a compound novelty check (that checks in in-house and external compound databases to see if the compound is novel), predicted aqueous solubility... 

Godden, J. W., Stahura, F. L., Bajorath, J. (2000) Variabilities of molecular descriptors in compound databases revealed by Shannon entropy calculations. J Chem Inf Comput Sci 40, 796-800. 

Williams, A. J. (2008) Public chemical compound databases. Curr Opin Drug Discov Develop 11, 393 404. 

F., Villoutreix, B. O. (2006) Receptor-based computational screening of compound databases the main dockingscoring engines. Curr Protein Pept Sci 7, 369-393. 

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