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Systematically examining current methods and strategies, this ready reference covers a wide range of molecular structures, from organic-chemical drugs to peptides, Proteins and nucleic acids, in line with emerging new drug classes derived from biomacromolecules.

A leader in the field and one of the pioneers of this young discipline has assembled here the most prominent experts from across the world to provide first-hand knowledge. While most of their methods and examples come from the area of pharmaceutical discovery and development, the approaches are equally applicable for chemical probes and diagnostics, pesticides, and any other molecule designed to interact with a biological system. Numerous images and screenshots illustrate the many examples and method descriptions.

With its broad and balanced coverage, this will be the firststop resource not only for medicinal chemists, biochemists and biotechnologists, but equally for bioinformaticians and molecular designers for many years to come.


From the content:

* Reaction-driven de novo design
* Adaptive methods in molecular design
* Design of ligands against multitarget profiles
* Free energy methods in ligand design
* Fragment-based de novo design
* Automated design of focused and target family-oriented compound libraries
* Molecular de novo design by nature-inspired computing
* 3D QSAR approaches to de novo drug design
* Bioisosteres in de novo design
* De novo design of peptides, proteins and nucleic acid structures, including RNA aptamers

and many more.

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Table of Contents

Related Titles

Title Page

Copyright

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: De Novo Design: From Models to Molecules

1.1 Molecular Representation

1.2 The Molecular Design Cycle

1.3 Receptor–Ligand Interaction

1.4 Modeling Fitness Landscapes

1.5 Strategies for Compound Construction

1.6 Strategies for Compound Scoring

1.7 Flashback Forward: A Brief History of De Novo Drug Design

1.8 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 2: Coping with Complexity in Molecular Design

2.1 Introduction

2.2 A Simple Model of Molecular Interactions

2.3 Enhancements to the Simple Complexity Model

2.4 Enumerating and Sampling the Complexity of Chemical Space

2.5 Validation of the Complexity Model

2.6 Reductionism and Drug Design

2.7 Complexity and Information Content as a Factor in De Novo Design

2.8 Complexity of Thermodynamic Entropy and Drug Design

2.9 Complex Systems, Emergent Behavior, and Molecular Design

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 3: The Human Pocketome

3.1 Predicted Pockets

3.2 Compilation of the Validated Human Pocketome

3.3 Diversity and Redundancy of the Human Pocketome

3.4 Compound Activity Prediction by Ligand-Pocket Docking and Scoring

3.5 Pocketome-Derived 3D Chemical Fields as Activity Prediction Models

3.6 Clustering the Ligands by Function and Subpockets

3.7 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 4: Structure-Based De Novo Drug Design

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Current Progress in SBDND Methodologies

4.3 Recent Applications of Structure-Based De Novo Design

4.4 Perspectives and Conclusion

Acknowledgment

References

Chapter 5: De Novo Design by Fragment Growing and Docking

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Case Study I: High-Throughput Screening with Dr Feils

5.3 Case Study II: Fragment-Based Drug Design with Dr Goode

5.4 Conclusion

Disclaimer

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 6: Hit and Lead Identification from Fragments

6.1 Introduction to FBDD

6.2 Fragment Library Design Incorporating Computational Methods

6.3 Fragment Screening

6.4 Fragment Prioritization for Optimization

6.5 Fragment Hit Expansion and Fragment Evolution

6.6 Fragment Merging Principles

6.7 Fragment Linking Principles

6.8 Fragment-Assisted Drug Discovery (FADD)

6.9 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 7: Pharmacophore-Based De Novo Design

7.1 Introduction

7.2 A Summary of the Algorithms of PhDD v1.0

7.3 An Introduction to the Modifications in the Updated Version of PhDD (v2.0)

7.4 Validation of PhDD

7.5 Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgment

References

Chapter 8: 3D-QSAR Approaches to De Novo Drug Design

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Current Methods

8.3 Leapfrog

8.4 Recent Advances

8.5 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 9: Ligand-Based Molecular Design Using Pseudoreceptors

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Pseudoreceptor Algorithms

9.3 Successful Applications Overview

9.4 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 10: Reaction-Driven De Novo Design: a Keystone for Automated Design of Target Family-Oriented Libraries

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Reaction-Driven Design: Tackling the Problem of Synthetic Feasibility

10.3 Successful Applications of Reaction-Driven De Novo Design

10.4 Reaction-Driven Design of Chemical Libraries Addressing Target Families

10.5 Conclusions

References

Chapter 11: Multiobjective De Novo Design of Synthetically Accessible Compounds

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Design of Synthetically Accessible Compounds

11.3 Synthetic Accessibility Using Reaction Vectors

11.4 De Novo Design Using Evolutionary Algorithms

11.5 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 12: De Novo Design of Ligands against Multitarget Profiles

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Automating the Creativity of Ligand Design

12.3 Evolutionary Algorithm

12.4 Experimental Validation

12.5 Reducing Antitarget Activity

12.6 Optimizing D4 Receptor Potency

12.7 Designing Novel Ligands to a Defined Profile

12.8 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 13: Construction of Drug-Like Compounds by Markov Chains

13.1 Introduction

13.2 FOG Algorithm and Library Generation

13.3 Applications

13.4 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 14: Coping with Combinatorial Space in Molecular Design

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Chemical Space

14.3 Combinatorial Space

14.4 Visualization

14.5 Conclusion

References

Chapter 15: Fragment-Based Design of Focused Compound Libraries

15.1 Introduction

15.2 General Workflow

15.3 Fragment Space

15.4 Query

15.5 FTrees Fragment Space Search

15.6 Scaffold Selection

15.7 Design of Focused Libraries

15.8 Application Example

15.9 Summary and Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 16: Free Energy Methods in Ligand Design

16.1 Free Energy (FE) Methods in Lead Optimization (LO)

16.2 The Variety of In Silico Binding Affinity Methods

16.3 The Choice of a Method for Calculating Binding FE

16.4 Experimental Data

16.5 Current Issues

16.6 Practical Examples

16.7 Miscellaneous Issues

16.8 Best Practices

16.9 Conclusions and Outlook

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

References

Chapter 17: Bioisosteres in De Novo Design

17.1 Introduction

17.2 History of Isosterism and Bioisosterism

17.3 Methods for Bioisosteric Replacement

17.4 Exemplar Applications

17.5 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 18: Peptide Design by Nature-Inspired Algorithms

18.1 Template-Based Design

18.2 Nature-Inspired Optimization

18.3 Worked Example: De Novo Design of MHC-I Binding Peptides by Ant Colony Optimization

18.4 Chemical Modification

18.5 Conclusions and Outlook

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 19: De Novo Computational Protein Design

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Elements of Computational Protein Design

19.3 Efforts in Theoretically Guided Protein Design

19.4 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 20: De Novo Design of Nucleic Acid Structures

20.1 Introduction

20.2 DNA-Branched Structures

20.3 Scaffolded DNA Origami Design

20.4 Alternative DNA Designs: between Junctions and Origami

20.5 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 21: RNA Aptamer Design

21.1 Aptamers and Design

21.2 Riboswitches and Aptamers

21.3 SELEX

21.4 Speeding Up SELEX by Computational Methods

21.5 Structures and Probing Methods

21.6 Functional Analyses (In Vitro and In Vivo)

21.7 Problems

21.8 Future Perspectives

References

Index

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ETH Zürich

Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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List of Contributors

Ruben Abagyan
University of California
San Diego
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
USA
Rommie E. Amaro
University of California San Diego
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
9500 Gilman Drive
Mail Code 0340
La Jolla, CA 92093-0340
USA
Karl-Heinz Baringhaus
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland
Chemical Science/Drug Design
Gebäude H 831
65926 Frankfurt
Germany
Jérémy Besnard
University of Dundee
Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery
College of Life Sciences
Dow Street
Dundee DD1 3DF
UK
and
Ex Scientia Ltd
14 City Quay
Dundee DD1 3JA
UK
Julian Blagg
Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit
Division of Cancer Therapeutics
The Institute of Cancer Research
15 Cotswold Road
Sutton SM2 5NG
UK
Michael J. Bodkin
Medicinal Chemistry
Eli Lilly UK
Erl Wood Manor
Windlesham
Surrey GU20 6PH
UK
Nathan Brown
Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit
Division of Cancer Therapeutics
The Institute of Cancer Research
15 Cotswold Road
Sutton SM2 5NG
UK
Lu Chen
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
Integrated Molecular Discovery Laboratory
1901 East Road
Unit 1950
Houston, TX 77054
USA
Richard D. Cramer
Tripos Associates
1699 South Hanley Road
St. Louis, MO 63144
USA
Jacob D. Durrant
University of California San Diego
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
9500 Gilman Drive
Mail Code 0340
La Jolla, CA 92093-0340
USA
Darren Fayne
Trinity College Dublin
School of Biochemistry and Immunology
Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute
152-160 Pearse Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
Udo Feldkamp
Technical University of Dortmund
Faculty of Chemistry
Otto-Hahn Street 6
D-44227 Dortmund
Germany
Nicholas C. Firth
Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit
Division of Cancer Therapeutics
The Institute of Cancer Research
15 Cotswold Road
Sutton SM2 5NG
UK
Valerie J. Gillet
Information School
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello Street
Sheffield S1 4DP
UK
Meir Glick
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Center for Proteomic Chemistry
250 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Ulrich Hahn
University of Hamburg
MIN-Faculty, Chemistry Dept
Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Martin-Luther-King Platz 6
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Michael M. Hann
Chemical Sciences
Molecular Discovery Research
GSK Medicines Research Centre
Stevenage SG1 2NY
UK
Markus Hartenfeller
Novartis Pharma AG
Forum 1
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Novartis Campus
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland
Jan A. Hiss
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10
8093 Zürich
Switzerland
Andrew L. Hopkins
University of Dundee
Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery
College of Life Sciences
Dow Street
Dundee, DD1 3DF
UK
and
Ex Scientia Ltd
14 City Quay
Dundee DD1 3JA
UK
Dimitar Hristozov
Medicinal Chemistry
Eli Lilly UK
Erl Wood Manor
Windlesham
Surrey GU20 6PH
UK
Qi Huang
Sichuan University
State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center
West China Hospital
No. 17, Sec 3
Renmin Road South, Chengdu
Sichuan, 610041
China
Roderick E. Hubbard
University of York
Department of Chemistry
YSBL
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
UK
and
Vernalis (R&D) Ltd
Granta Park
Cambridge, CB21 6GB
UK
Edgar Jacoby
Novartis Pharma AG
Forum 1
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Novartis Campus
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland
Peter S. Kutchukian
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Center for Proteomic Chemistry
250 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Florian Lauck
University of Hamburg
Center for Bioinformatics
Research Group for Computational
Molecular Design
Bundesstraße 43
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Richard Law
Evotec (UK) Ltd
114 Innovation Drive
Milton Park
Abingdon
Oxfordshire OX14 4RZ
UK
Andrew R. Leach
Chemical Sciences
Molecular Discovery Research
GSK Medicines Research Centre
Stevenage SG1 2NY
UK
Uta Lessel
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Lead Identification and Optimization Support
Computational Chemistry
Birkendorfer Straße 65
D-88397 Biberach an der Riss
Germany
Eugen Lounkine
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Center for Proteomic Chemistry
250 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Michael Mazanetz
Evotec (UK) Ltd
114 Innovation Drive
Milton Park
Abingdon
Oxfordshire OX14 4RZ
UK
Cindy Meyer
The Rockefeller University
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Laboratory of RNA
Molecular Biology
1230 York Ave
New York, NY 10065
USA
Matthias Rarey
University of Hamburg
Center for Bioinformatics
Research Group for Computational
Molecular Design
Bundesstraße 43
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Steffen Renner
Novartis Pharma AG
Forum 1
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Novartis Campus
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland
Clarisse Gravina Ricci
State University of Campinas – UNICAMP
Institute of Chemistry
Cx. P. 6154
Campinas
São Paulo 13083–970
Brazil
and
University of California
San Diego
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
USA
Barbara Saccà
University of Duisburg-Essen
Department of Bionanotechnology
Center for Medicinal Biotechnology
Faculty of Biology
Universitätstraße 2
D-44117 Essen
Germany
Jeffery G. Saven
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Chemistry
231 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA
Gisbert Schneider
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10
8093 Zürich
Switzerland
Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Harvard University
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Andreas Sprengel
University of Duisburg-Essen
Department of Bionanotechnology
Center for Medicinal Biotechnology
Faculty of Biology
Universitätstraße 2
D-44117 Essen
Germany
Alla Srinivas Reddy
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
Integrated Molecular Discovery Laboratory
1901 East Road
Unit 1950
Houston, TX 77054
USA
Andrew E. Torda
University of Hamburg
Center for Bioinformatics
Bundesstrasse 43
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Salla I. Virtanen
Harvard University
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Wen-Jing Wang
Sichuan University
State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center
West China Hospital
No. 17, Sec 3
Renmin Road South, Chengdu
Sichuan, 610041
China
Yvonne Westermaier
University of York
Department of Chemistry
YSBL
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
UK
and
Universitat de Barcelona
Facultat de Farmàcia
Departament de Fisicoquímica and Institut de Biomedicina
Computational Biology and Drug Design Group
Avinguda Joan XXIII, s/n
08028 Barcelona
Spain
Mark Whittaker
Evotec (UK) Ltd
114 Innovation Drive
Milton Park
Abingdon
Oxfordshire OX14 4RZ
UK
Sheng-Yong Yang
Sichuan University
State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center
West China Hospital
No. 17, Sec 3
Renmin Road South, Chengdu
Sichuan, 610041
China
Shuxing Zhang
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
Integrated Molecular Discovery Laboratory
1901 East Road
Unit 1950
Houston, TX 77054
USA

Foreword

The history of de novo drug design, which is concerned primarily with the use of computers to design new active drug compounds, may as well be called the history of computer-aided drug design (CADD). Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) studies were a prominent feature of the drug design process until the second half of the 1980s. QSAR studies provide an effective technique for analyzing the correlations between molecular structure and biological activity, and can still be used as a powerful approach during the lead optimization phase of a drug discovery program. For the purposes of lead generation, however, QSAR studies cannot be used, for example, to design a molecule with a different molecular skeleton.

To overcome these issues, de novo drug design was introduced in the 1990s. Although a variety of different de novo drug design software suites have been developed, they are invariably difficult to at the practical level for real drug design. It is noteworthy that successful examples of drug design using these tools could not be found during those early days, and the use and general perception of de novo drug design consequently went into decline following its peak usage in the mid-1990s. This decline in the use of de novo drug design was attributed to scientists focusing on the magnitude of the computational binding strength with the target receptor, while ignoring the drug-like properties and the synthetic tractability of the designed compounds.

Following of from the pivot role of CADD in in silico virtual screening, de novo drug design has reappeared in the form of lead hopping or scaffold hopping during the first half of the 2000s. This reappearance owes a lot to the compound libraries generated using combinatorial chemistry and chemoinformatics technologies. The recent progress of de novo drug design was reviewed by Prof Schneider [1], where 36 kinds of software were classified according to their methodology. Furthermore, in a review by Prof Kunchukian [2], the 20 latest types of software were comprehensively added. According to Kunchukian's count, the number of the reports published every year from 2005 through 2008 increased by five to six reports until it eventually doubled in 2009. The numbers then continued to increase at the same pace afterward. The big difference in the recent popularity of de novo drug design relative to its initial release in the 1990s relates to the number of research reports in which the compounds designed on the computer were actually synthesized and evaluated. This shows that the use of de novo drug design software for drug development spot has reached a practical level. Interestingly, there are now more de novo drug design software suites available than there are in silico virtual screening programs. That is, the technology of de novo drug design is not fixed and the software has many advantages and disadvantages. In other words, de novo drug design has a hidden potential for further developments.

The number of possible combination of atoms in organic compounds (chemical space) is vast, and the number is said to be the sixtieth power of 10. De novo drug design is a combination of optimization problem that enables the user to find the most promising compound out of this vast chemical space. A variety of different optimization algorithms have been devised, including the evolutionary algorithm, Monte Carlo simulation, taboo search, depth-first search, breadth-first search, and the A* algorithm. As de novo drug design software adopts various algorithms, the software is flooded with many candidates.

Taken against this background, the publication of this special edition of “De novo Molecular Design” appears to be particularly timely. This book itself is dedicated to the concepts and ideas for de novo drug design. The potentials and limitations of the relevant techniques are critically discussed and comprehensively exemplified in 21 chapters by distinguished authors from both academia and the pharmaceutical industry. A series of well-defined chapters follow the first exciting and challenging chapter, “De novo design: from models to molecules”, with examples including structure-, fragment-, pharmacophore-, QSAR-, reaction-, polypharmacology-, combinatorial-, and biosteric-based de novo designs. As a scientist keen to recommend the use of de novo drug design in the drug discovery process, I am convinced that readers will be able to successfully apply these de novo design methods to their own drug design projects and produce many innovative compounds for the pharmaceutical drug market. It is my central hope that this book will be helpful and be used in the same way as an encyclopedia when hints and ideas are needed during the drug design process.

Tokyo, April 2013

Prof Kimito Funatsu

Department of Chemical System Engineering

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

References

1. Schneider, G. and Fechner, U. (2005) Computer-based de novo design of drug-like molecules. Nat. Rev. Drug Discov., 4, 649–663.

2. Kutchukian, P.S. and Shakhnovich, E.I. (2010) De novo design: balancing novelty and confined chemical space. Expert Opin. Drug Discov., 5, 789–812.

Preface

This book builds on the legacy of many bright minds. It does not claim completeness or truth. Its intention merely is to inspire readers to critically and creatively explore the possibilities of de novo molecular design for drug discovery and chemical biology. I am most grateful to all authors for contributing truly exciting 21 chapters. Their willingness and thoroughness allowed us to compile a formidable collection of ideas and reports on the various aspects of computer-assisted molecular design. Special thanks go to Prof Kimito Funatsu, who shares his thoughts on de novo design in the Foreword. I am equally grateful to my colleagues who agreed to act as impartial reviewers, and through their personal advice helped me not to go over the top. My beloved wife was very lenient toward me during the preparation of this volume (and not just then). Dr Heike Nöthe and Dr Frank Weinreich from Wiley-VCH did a great job supporting me in the editing process and ensured swift and professional book production. Persistent challenge by my research team at ETH helped me focus on some tough scientific questions and come up with hopefully useful answers.

This book starts off with a general overview of the scientific pillars of molecular design. In the subsequent chapters, renowned experts from industry and academia alike provide their views on the drug discovery process and the role of de novo design, receptor- and ligand-based approaches, the nature of macromolecular structure and ligand–receptor interaction, chemical space navigation, combinatorial- and fragment-based design principles, rigorous physical approaches to solve the scoring problem in drug design, and the automated generation of bioactive peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids as potential drugs of the future. I have structured the contributions so that they are attuned to one another and demonstrate the various ideas and technological concepts in a well-defined collation. This book is meant to be read from cover to cover. Nevertheless, all chapters stand on their own, and the interested reader may cherry-pick favorites. Consequently, slight redundancy of contents was unavoidable and has intentionally been kept to ensure that each chapter represents the authors' individual views on a topic, and at the same time allows the reader to learn about different thoughts and opinions.

As I have had the great privilege to witness the rise of computer-assisted de novo design from its humble beginnings to become mainstream science, I am pleased to see these fascinating techniques now being broadly applied in drug discovery and chemical biology. There is still much more to come and to expect from the amalgamation of technologies and complementary scientific thinking. I am convinced that only by constantly keeping an open mind for surprising fresh ideas and unexpected revelations will we be able to make continuous progress in molecular design. This also means that some of our “old beliefs” might need a critical overhaul, and some should better be discarded to make way for new and improved concepts that will enable researchers to conceive of innovative algorithms for molecule construction, scoring, and chemical space navigation.

Zürich, April 2013

Gisbert Schneider

Chapter 1

De Novo Design: From Models to Molecules

Gisbert Schneider and Karl-Heinz Baringhaus

Form ever follows function, and this is the law.

Where function does not change, form does not change.

Louis Sullivan, American architect (1896) [1]

Innovative bioactive agents fuel sustained drug discovery and the development of new medicines. Future success in chemical biology and pharmaceutical research alike will fundamentally rely on the combination of advanced synthetic and analytical technologies that are embedded in a theoretical framework that provides a rationale for the interplay between chemical structure and biological effect. A driving role in this setting falls on leading edge concepts in computer-assisted molecular design, by providing access to a virtually infinite source of novel druglike compounds and guiding experimental screening campaigns. In this chapter, we present concepts and ideas for the representation of molecular structure, suggest predictive models of structure–activity relationships, and discuss approaches that have proved their usefulness and will contribute to future drug discovery by generating innovative bioactive agents. We also highlight some of the current prohibitive aspects of fully automated de novo design that will require attention for future methodological breakthroughs. This chapter provides an introduction to important pillars of de novo drug design, whereas the subsequent contributions presented in this book offer in-depth treatments of current trends, methods, and approaches together with numerous practical examples. We are confident that the reading will inspire.

1.1 Molecular Representation

Ever since the first atomic models of molecules have been conceived, scientists have used such models, and their associated concepts and language, to come up with innovative chemical agents that possess sought properties [2]. So far, we tend to think of a molecule in terms of sticks and balls when it comes to visualize chemical structure. No doubt, simplistic representations have their justification for describing certain aspects of molecular constitution, configuration, and conformation and provide an intuitive access to “molecular architecture” (Figure 1.1). However, they fall far short of relating functional aspects to the objects we recognize as molecules. In the end, it is the desired function we wish to get from a molecular structure. “Form follows function” – this credo of modern architecture and industrial design is equally valid for molecular design, in particular in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology striving for new chemical entities (NCEs) as biologically active lead compounds and eventually future drugs.

Figure 1.1 Atomic models of molecular structure as depicted in John Dalton's seminal book entitled (1808). Panel (a) presents the “arbitrary signs chosen to represent the several chemical elements or ultimate particles.” Panel (b) might be considered as an early molecular design study, as it depicts Dalton's view of various arrangements of water molecules. Note the similarity between these archaic philosophies and contemporary molecular models.

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Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!