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Machine-learning approaches in drug discovery: methods and applications.

Antonio Lavecchia
- 01 Mar 2015 - 
- Vol. 20, Iss: 3, pp 318-331
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This work focuses on machine-learning techniques within the context of ligand-based VS (LBVS), providing a detailed view of the current state of the art in this field and highlighting not only the problematic issues, but also the successes and opportunities for further advances.
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This article is published in Drug Discovery Today.The article was published on 2015-03-01. It has received 542 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Application domain.

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Automated exploration of the low-energy chemical space with fast quantum chemical methods

TL;DR: An efficient scheme for the in silico sampling for parts of the molecular chemical space by semiempirical tight-binding methods combined with a meta-dynamics driven search algorithm is proposed and discussed, opening many possible applications in modern computational chemistry and drug discovery.
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Molecular Docking: Shifting Paradigms in Drug Discovery.

TL;DR: This review describes how molecular docking was firstly applied to assist in drug discovery tasks, and illustrates newer and emergent uses and applications of docking, including prediction of adverse effects, polypharmacology, drug repurposing, and target fishing and profiling.
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Deep Learning in Drug Discovery.

TL;DR: An overview of this emerging field of molecular informatics, the basic concepts of prominent deep learning methods are presented, and motivation to explore these techniques for their usefulness in computer‐assisted drug discovery and design is offered.
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Predicting reaction performance in C–N cross-coupling using machine learning

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that machine learning can be used to predict the performance of a synthetic reaction in multidimensional chemical space using data obtained via high-throughput experimentation and provides significantly improved predictive performance over linear regression analysis.
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From machine learning to deep learning: progress in machine intelligence for rational drug discovery.

TL;DR: The history of machine learning is summarized and insight into recently developed deep learning approaches and their applications in rational drug discovery are provided to help guide early-stage drug design and discovery in the current big data era.
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