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Maureen H Beresini¹, Yichin Liu¹, Timothy D Dawes¹

¹Department of Biochemical & Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.

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|February 13, 2014

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Creating focused compound library subsets enhances drug discovery. These diverse sets, including validation, diversity, and property-restricted libraries, improve hit identification and accelerate lead discovery processes.

Keywords:

compound library high-throughput screening library subset molecular diversity

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Area of Science:

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Drug Discovery
Computational Chemistry

Background:

Large compound libraries are essential for drug discovery screening.
Optimizing library subsets can improve screening efficiency and hit identification.
Genentech established multiple focused library subsets to complement its main corporate library.

Purpose of the Study:

To establish and validate diverse small-compound library subsets for drug discovery.
To assess the utility of these subsets in guiding assay development and predicting hit rates.
To identify ligand-efficient compounds using a property-restricted library.

Main Methods:

Creation of validation, diversity, and property-restricted (in-between) library subsets.
Selection of compounds based on representation of the main library's scaffold diversity.
Screening of subsets using computational approaches and internal screening data analysis.
Retrospective analysis of hit rates and scaffold recovery.

Main Results:

Validation sets confirmed assay reproducibility and provided hit rate estimates.
A diversity subset showed similar hit rates to the main library but recovered more unique hit scaffolds.
The "in-between library" facilitated the identification of ligand-efficient compounds.

Conclusions:

Purpose-focused, diversity-based library subsets accelerate lead discovery.
Computational design and data analysis are crucial for optimizing library subsets.
Strategic use of library subsets enhances the efficiency and success rate of drug discovery screening.