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ACID: a free tool for drug repurposing using consensus inverse docking strategy.

Fan Wang1,2, Feng-Xu Wu1,2, Cheng-Zhang Li1,2

  • 1Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, People's Republic of China.

Journal of Cheminformatics
|January 12, 2021
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Drug repurposing accelerates new drug development by identifying existing drugs for new uses. A novel consensus inverse docking (CID) workflow improves success rates by over 10% for computational drug repositioning.

Area of Science:

  • Computational chemistry
  • Drug discovery
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • Drug repurposing significantly shortens drug development timelines by identifying new therapeutic uses for existing drugs.
  • Computational approaches are crucial for drug repurposing, leveraging polypharmacology (a single molecule acting on multiple targets).
  • Existing computational methods face limitations in accurately modeling drug-target interactions, leading to lower success rates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the challenges in computational drug repurposing by developing a more effective workflow.
  • To enhance the success rate of identifying viable drug candidates for new indications.
  • To provide an accessible computational tool for the scientific community.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a consensus inverse docking (CID) workflow.
Keywords:
ACIDConsensus inverse dockingDrug repurposingWeb server

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  • Implementation of the CID workflow into an accessible web server, auto in silico consensus inverse docking (ACID).
  • Validation of the workflow against existing state-of-the-art methods.

    • Main Results:

    • The CID workflow demonstrated a significant enhancement in success rate, approximately 10%, compared to the current best computational methods.
    • The ACID web server provides a user-friendly platform for applying the CID workflow.
    • Improved accuracy in predicting drug-target interactions for repurposing applications.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed CID workflow and ACID web server offer a substantial improvement for computational drug repurposing.
    • This approach overcomes key limitations of previous methods, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of drug repositioning.
    • The ACID server facilitates broader adoption and application of advanced computational drug discovery techniques.