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A critical overview of computational approaches employed for COVID-19 drug discovery

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Muratov, Eugene N., Amaro, Rommie, Andrade, Carolina H., Brown, Nathan, Ekins, Sean, Fourches, Denis, Isayev, Olexandr, Kozakov, Dima +11 more·2021·Chemical Society Reviews

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We cover diverse methodologies, computational approaches, and case studies illustrating the ongoing efforts to develop viable drug candidates for treatment of COVID-19.

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    The ‘Deep learning approaches for SBDD’ section describes a platform that generated QSAR models and predicted docking scores for molecules against 12 target proteins. It does not establish that QSAR methods can be automatically deployed against thousands of target bioactivities; the large numbers reported refer to molecules, not bioactivities. The indexed passages provide no page number. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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Muratov, E. N., Amaro, R., Andrade, C. H., Brown, N., Ekins, S., Fourches, D., Isayev, O., Kozakov, D., Medina-Franco, J. L., Merz, K. M., Oprea, T. I., Poroikov, V., Schneider, G., Todd, M. H., Varnek, A., Winkler, D. A., Zakharov, A. V., Cherkasov, A., & Tropsha, A.
Affiliations
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • Universidade Federal de Goiás (BR)
  • BenevolentAI (United Kingdom) (GB)
  • Collaborations Pharmaceuticals (United States) (US)
  • North Carolina State University (US)
  • Carnegie Mellon University (US)
  • Stony Brook University (US)
  • Department of Pharmacy, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
  • Michigan State University (US)
  • University of Copenhagen (DK)
  • Institute of Biomedical Chemistry (RU)
  • ETH Zurich (CH)
  • UCL School of Pharmacy (GB)
  • Hokkaido University (JP)
  • University of Nottingham (GB)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (US)
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
Corresponding author
  • Cherkasov, Artem
  • Tropsha, Alexander
Venue
Chemical Society Reviews
Published
2021
Volume
50
Issue
16
Pages
9121-9151
ISSN
  • 0306-0012 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-4744
OpenAlex
W3176005660
Cited by
206
References
193
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 27
FWCI
3.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Chemical Society Reviews (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (acceptedVersion, public-domain)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (acceptedVersion)
  • Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • La Trobe University
  • ETH Zürich Research Collection
Funders
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (205321_182176)
  • National Institutes of Health (U01CA207160, U01CA239108, U24 CA224370, U24 TR002278, R44GM122196-02A1, GM132826)
  • Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (V200121)
  • National Science Foundation (MCB-2032054, CHE-1802789, CHE-2041108)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, drug discovery, computer-aided drug design, drug repurposing, small molecule drugs, SARS-CoV-2, combination therapy, open science, clinical trials
MeSH terms
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 Drug Treatment, Antiviral Agents, Clinical Trials as Topic, Computer Simulation, Humans, Drug Design, Drug Discovery, Drug Repositioning, Pandemics

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