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Cheminformatics, QSAR and Machine Learning Applications for Novel Drug Development

  • 1st Edition - May 23, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Kunal Roy
  • Language: English

Cheminformatics, QSAR and Machine Learning Applications for Novel Drug Development aims at showcasing different structure-based, ligand-based, and machine learning tools currently… Read more

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Description

Cheminformatics, QSAR and Machine Learning Applications for Novel Drug Development aims at showcasing different structure-based, ligand-based, and machine learning tools currently used in drug design. It also highlights special topics of computational drug design together with the available tools and databases. The integrated presentation of chemometrics, cheminformatics, and machine learning methods under is one of the strengths of the book.
The first part of the content is devoted to establishing the foundations of the area. Here recent trends in computational modeling of drugs are presented. Other topics present in this part include QSAR in medicinal chemistry, structure-based methods, chemoinformatics and chemometric approaches, and machine learning methods in drug design. The second part focuses on methods and case studies including molecular descriptors, molecular similarity, structure-based based screening, homology modeling in protein structure predictions, molecular docking, stability of drug receptor interactions, deep learning and support vector machine in drug design. The third part of the book is dedicated to special topics, including dedicated chapters on topics ranging from de design of green pharmaceuticals to computational toxicology. The final part is dedicated to present the available tools and databases, including QSAR databases, free tools and databases in ligand and structure-based drug design, and machine learning resources for drug design. The final chapters discuss different web servers used for identification of various drug candidates.

Key features

  • Presents chemometrics, cheminformatics and machine learning methods under a single reference
  • Showcases the different structure-based, ligand-based and machine learning tools currently used in drug design
  • Highlights special topics of computational drug design and available tools and databases

Readership

Primarily academics covering PhD, Post-docs and Masters students of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry in general

Table of contents

Section I: Introduction

1. Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) in medicinal chemistry
Kunal Roy and Mainak Chatterjee

2. Computer-aided Drug Design – An overview
Athina Geronikaki, Gurudutt Dubey, Anthi Petrou and Sivapriya Kirubakaran

3. Structure-based virtual screening in Drug Discovery
M R. Yadav, Prashant R. Murumkar, Rasana Yadav and Karan Joshi

4. The impact of Artificial Intelligence methods on drug design
Giuseppina Gini

Section 2. Methods and Case studies



5. Graph Machine Learning in Drug Discovery
Mohit Pandey, Atia Hamidizadeh, Mariia Radaeva, Michael Fernandez, Martin Ester and Artem Cherkasov

6. Support Vector Machine in Drug Design
Jose Isagani B. Janairo

7. Understanding protein-ligand interactions using state-of-the-art computer simulation methods
Elvis A. F. Martis, Manas Mahale, Aishwarya Chaudhari and Evans C. Coutinho

8. Structure-based methods in drug design
Lalitha Guruprasad, Priyanka Andola, Adrija Banerjee, Durgam Laxman and Gatta K.R.S. Naresh

9. Structure-based virtual screening
Shweta Singh Chauhan, Tanya Jamal, Anurag Singh, Ashish Sehrawat and Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi

10. Deep learning in drug design
Roi Naveiro, María Jimena Martínez, Axel J. Soto, Ignacio Ponzoni, David Ríos-Insua, and Nuria E. Campillo

11. Computational methods in the analysis of viral-host interactions
Olga A. Tarasova, Sergey M. Ivanov, Nadezhda Yu Biziukova, Shuanat Sh Kabieva and Vladimir V. Poroikov

12. Chemical space and Molecular Descriptors for QSAR studies
Viviana Consonni, Davide Ballabio and Roberto Todeschini

13. Machine learning methods in drug design
Gabriel Corrêa Veríssimo, Jadson de Castro Gertrudes and Vinícius Gonçalves Maltarollo

14. Deep learning methodologies in drug design
Haralambos Sarimveis, Chrysoula Gousiadou, Philip Doganis, Pantelis Karatzas, Iason Sotiropoulos and Periklis Tsiros

15. Molecular dynamics in predicting stability of drug receptor interactions
Dr. B Jayaram and Devendra Prajapat

Section 3. Special topics



16. Towards models for bioaccumulation suitable for the pharmaceutical domain
Davide Luciani, Erika Colombo, Anna Lombardo and Emilio Benfenati

17. Machine Learning as a Modeling Approach for the Account of Nonlinear Information in MIA-QSAR Applications: A Case Study with SVM Applied to Antimalarial (Aza)aurones
Joyce K. Daré, Adriana C. de Faria, Ingrid V. Pereira and Matheus P. Freitas

18. Deep Learning using molecular image of chemical structure
Yasunari Matsuzaka and Yoshihiro Uesawa

19. Recent Advances in Deep Learning Enabled Approaches for Identification of Molecules of Therapeutics Relevance
Kushagra Kashyap and Mohammad Imran Siddiqi

20. Computational toxicology of pharmaceuticals
Gulcin Tugcu, Hande Sipahi, Mohammad Charehsaz, Ahmet Aydın, and Melek Türker Saçan

21. Ecotoxicological QSAR modelling of pharmaceuticals
Elifcan Çalışkan, Gulcin Tugcu, Serli Önlü, and Melek Türker Saçan

22. Computational modelling of drugs for neglected diseases
Pablo Duchowicz, Silvina Fioressi and Daniel E. Bacelo

23. Modelling ADMET properties based on Biomimetic Chromatographic Data
Theodosia Vallianatou, Fotios Tsopelas and Anna Tsantili-Kakoulidou

24. A systematic chemoinformatic analysis of chemical space, scaffolds and antimicrobial activity of LpxC inhibitors
Sapna Swarup, Sonali Chhabra and Raman Parkesh

Section 4. Tools and databases



25. Tools and Software for Computer Aided Drug Design and Discovery
Siyun Yang, Supratik Kar and Jerzy Leszczynski

26. Machine learning resources for drug design
Nicola Gambacorta, Daniela Trisciuzzi, Fulvio Ciriaco, Fabrizio Mastrolorito, Maria Vittoria Togo, Anna Rita Tondo, Cosimo Damiano Altomare, Nicola Amoroso and Orazio Nicolotti

27. Building Bioinformatics Web Applications with Streamlit
Chanin Nantasenamat, Avratanu Biswas, J. M. Nápoles-Duarte, Mitchell I. Parker and Roland L. Dunbrack Jr

28. Free tools and databases in ligand and structure-based drug design
Pratibha Chaurasia, Anasuya Bhargav and Srinivasan Ramachandran

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 25, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Kunal Roy

Dr. Kunal Roy is Professor & Ex-Head in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (https://sites.google.com/site/kunalroyindia). He has been a recipient of Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship (University of Manchester, 2007) and Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (University of Manchester, 2013) and a former visiting scientist of Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri" IRCCS, Milano. Italy. The field of his research interest is Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) and Molecular Modeling with application in Drug Design, Property Modeling and Predictive Ecotoxicology. Dr. Roy has published more than 450 research articles (ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4486-8074) in refereed journals (current SCOPUS h index 57; total citations to date more than 17500). He has also coauthored three QSAR-related books (Academic Press and Springer), edited thirteen QSAR books (Springer, Academic Press, and IGI Global), and published twenty five book chapters. Dr. Roy is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Diversity (Springer Nature) and an Associate Editor of Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (Elsevier). Dr. Roy serves on the Editorial Boards of several International Journals including (1) European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier); (2) Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling (Elsevier); (3) Chemical Biology and Drug Design (Wiley); (4) Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (Informa). Apart from this, Prof. Roy is a regular reviewer for QSAR papers in different journals. Prof. Roy has been a participant in the EU funded projects nanoBRIDGES and IONTOX apart from several national Government funded projects (UGC, AICTE, CSIR, ICMR, DBT, DAE). Prof. Roy has recently been placed in the list of the World's Top 2% science-wide author database (whole career data) (World rank 52 in the subfield of Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry) (Ioannidis, John P.A. (2025), "August 2025 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", Elsevier Data Repository, V8, link: http://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.8).

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

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