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Applying Cheminformatics to Develop a Structure Searchable Database of Analytical Methods
Published on: June 6, 2025
Reaching for the bright StARs in chemical space
José L Medina-Franco1, J Jesús Naveja2, Edgar López-López1
1Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemistry, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 3000, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.
Abstract:
Visualization of activity data in chemical space is common in drug discovery. Navigating the space in a systematic manner is not trivial, given its size and huge coverage. To this end, methods for data visualization have been developed charting biological activity into chemical space. Herein, we review the progress in different visualization approaches to explore the chemical space aiming at reaching insightful structure-activity relationships (SARs) in the chemical space. We discuss recent methods including consensus diversity plots, ChemMaps, and constellation plots. Several of the methods we review can be extended to analyze other properties of interest in medicinal chemistry, such as structure-toxicity relationships, and can be adapted to postprocess results of virtual screening (VS) of large compound libraries.
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