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      Lessons Learnt from Assembling Screening Libraries for Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases

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          To enable the establishment of a drug discovery operation for neglected diseases, out of 2.3 million commercially available compounds 222 552 compounds were selected for an in silico library, 57 438 for a diverse general screening library, and 1 697 compounds for a focused kinase set. Compiling these libraries required a robust strategy for compound selection. Rules for unwanted groups were defined and selection criteria to enrich for lead-like compounds which facilitate straightforward structure–activity relationship exploration were established. Further, a literature and patent review was undertaken to extract key recognition elements of kinase inhibitors (“core fragments”) to assemble a focused library for hit discovery for kinases. Computational and experimental characterisation of the general screening library revealed that the selected compounds 1) span a broad range of lead-like space, 2) show a high degree of structural integrity and purity, and 3) demonstrate appropriate solubility for the purposes of biochemical screening. The implications of this study for compound selection, especially in an academic environment with limited resources, are considered.

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                Journal
                ChemMedChem
                cmdc
                Chemmedchem
                WILEY-VCH Verlag
                1860-7179
                1860-7187
                14 March 2008
                06 December 2007
                : 3
                : 3
                : 435-444
                Affiliations
                [[a] ]simpleUniversity of Dundee, College of Life Sciences, James Black Centre Dow Street, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK, Fax: (+44)1382-386373
                Author notes

                Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.chemmedchem.org or from the author.

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                10.1002/cmdc.200700139
                2628535
                18064617
                763bd30e-0d13-4a4f-8e5b-21f3de5eb2eb
                Copyright © 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

                Re-use of this article is permitted in accordance with the Creative Commons Deed, Attribution 2.5, which does not permit commercial exploitation.

                History
                : 07 June 2007
                : 21 September 2007
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                Pharmaceutical chemistry
                neglected diseases,high-throughput screening,virtual screening,kinase inhibitors,compound selection

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