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Matthias Hilbig¹, Sascha Urbaczek, Inken Groth

¹Center for Bioinformatics (ZBH), University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. rarey@zbh.uni-hamburg.de.

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MONA is an interactive tool for processing small-molecule datasets, enabling chemists to analyze and filter compounds efficiently. It combines database interactivity with pipelining simplicity for intuition-driven cheminformatics workflows.

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Area of Science:

Cheminformatics
Computational Chemistry
Drug Discovery

Background:

Cheminformaticians and chemists routinely analyze small-molecule datasets for applications like vendor catalog comparison and screening campaign candidate compilation.
Existing pipelining tools facilitate workflow creation but lack interactive intervention capabilities, hindering adaptive analysis when optimal workflows are unknown.
The need exists for tools supporting intuition-driven processing of compound collections, allowing expert knowledge integration during analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop MONA, an interactive tool for preparing and visualizing large small-molecule datasets.
To enable chemists to perform common cheminformatics tasks interactively with visual support.
To bridge the gap between interactive molecule database systems and simple pipelining tools for flexible cheminformatics workflows.

Main Methods:

Development of MONA, an interactive cheminformatics tool utilizing an SQL database.
Implementation of common cheminformatics tasks including duplicate checking and physico-chemical property filtering.
Design of a simple, intuitive user interface for immediate use without setup.

Main Results:

MONA provides interactive analysis and filtering of small-molecule datasets with visual aids.
The tool supports intuition-driven processing, allowing chemists to apply expert knowledge case-by-case.
MONA integrates the interactivity of database systems with the ease of pipelining tools.

Conclusions:

MONA facilitates efficient and flexible preparation and visualization of small-molecule datasets.
The tool empowers chemists to adapt workflows based on intermediate results and expert judgment.
MONA is available free of charge for academic use, promoting its adoption in research.