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Area of Science:

  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Intellectual Property Analysis
  • Chemoinformatics

Background:

  • Current patent mining lacks tools for building structure-activity relationship (SAR) knowledge.
  • Deriving SAR from patent data is challenging due to the absence of biological activity information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel technique for extracting SAR information from exemplified chemical structures in patents.
  • To enable the analysis of SAR trends within structural series from patent literature.

Main Methods:

  • Extraction of exemplified chemical structures from patent documents.
  • Grouping structures into series based on similarity and binding mode.
  • Generation of R-group tables and analysis of R-group usage over time.

Main Results:

  • Successfully derived SAR insights from patent exemplified structures.
  • Demonstrated the ability to build SAR understanding of structural series without biological activity data.
  • Identified trends in R-group modifications over time within specific structural series.

Conclusions:

  • The novel technique effectively extracts valuable SAR information from patent data.
  • This approach addresses a critical gap in patent mining for drug discovery and development.
  • It provides a method to understand SAR evolution even when biological data is not disclosed.