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Wang X, Chen H, Yang F, Gong J, Li S, Pei J, Liu X, Jiang H, Lai L, Li H. iDrug: a web-accessible and interactive drug discovery and design platform. J Cheminform 2014; 6:28. [PMID: 24955134 PMCID: PMC4046018 DOI: 10.1186/1758-2946-6-28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2014] [Accepted: 05/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The progress in computer-aided drug design (CADD) approaches over the past decades accelerated the early-stage pharmaceutical research. Many powerful standalone tools for CADD have been developed in academia. As programs are developed by various research groups, a consistent user-friendly online graphical working environment, combining computational techniques such as pharmacophore mapping, similarity calculation, scoring, and target identification is needed. RESULTS We presented a versatile, user-friendly, and efficient online tool for computer-aided drug design based on pharmacophore and 3D molecular similarity searching. The web interface enables binding sites detection, virtual screening hits identification, and drug targets prediction in an interactive manner through a seamless interface to all adapted packages (e.g., Cavity, PocketV.2, PharmMapper, SHAFTS). Several commercially available compound databases for hit identification and a well-annotated pharmacophore database for drug targets prediction were integrated in iDrug as well. The web interface provides tools for real-time molecular building/editing, converting, displaying, and analyzing. All the customized configurations of the functional modules can be accessed through featured session files provided, which can be saved to the local disk and uploaded to resume or update the history work. CONCLUSIONS iDrug is easy to use, and provides a novel, fast and reliable tool for conducting drug design experiments. By using iDrug, various molecular design processing tasks can be submitted and visualized simply in one browser without installing locally any standalone modeling softwares. iDrug is accessible free of charge at http://lilab.ecust.edu.cn/idrug.
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- Xia Wang
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- BNLMS, Center for Quantitative Biology, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- BNLMS, Center for Quantitative Biology, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China ; School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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Tang C, Liang Y, Bai S, He H, Chen Y, Yang G, Fu L. Synthesis and antiproliferative evaluation of novel tetrahydrobenzo[4′,5′]thieno[3′,2′:5,6]pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidine derivatives. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra03535f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A series of tetrahydrobenzo[4′,5′]thienophene[3′,2′:5,6]pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidine-4-(3H)-one derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their antiproliferative activities.
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- Chu Tang
- Laboratory for Natural Product Chemistry
- College of Pharmacy
- South Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China
- Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University
- Guangzhou 510060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Material Sciences
- South Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry
- Central China Normal University
- Wuhan 430079, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Material Sciences
- South Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- Laboratory for Natural Product Chemistry
- College of Pharmacy
- South Central University for Nationalities
- Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China
- Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University
- Guangzhou 510060, P. R. China
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