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  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Drug Discovery
  • Bioinformatics

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  • Molecular glues (MGs) are small molecules that modulate protein-protein interactions, offering therapeutic potential for various diseases, including those with undruggable targets.
  • The growing number of approved and clinical-stage MG-based drugs highlights their significance, yet a lack of centralized data hinders rational drug design.
  • Existing databases do not comprehensively integrate the diverse data types crucial for understanding and developing molecular glues.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To create MGDB, a specialized, open-access database for molecular glues.
  • To consolidate structural, pharmacological, computational, and ADMET data for MGs from diverse sources.
  • To facilitate researchers' exploration of molecular glue landscapes and support AI-driven drug design.

Main Methods:

  • Curated 7396 molecular glues from 162 publications and 156 patents.
  • Integrated 9728 bioactivity data points across 201 targets and 108 effectors.
  • Compiled 115,296 computed physicochemical properties and 270,785 ADMET profiles.
  • Enabled text and chemical structure-based queries with interoperability to external databases.

Main Results:

  • MGDB provides a comprehensive repository of molecular glue data.
  • The database includes structural, bioactivity, physicochemical, and ADMET information.
  • MGDB supports advanced search functionalities and links to external resources like PubChem and ChEMBL.

Conclusions:

  • MGDB addresses the critical need for a centralized, specialized database for molecular glues.
  • This resource empowers researchers with curated data for exploring molecular glue research and accelerating drug discovery.
  • MGDB serves as a valuable platform for AI-driven rational therapeutic design in the field of molecular glues.