Artificial intelligence-enabled virtual screening of ultra-large chemical libraries with deep docking

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With the recent explosion of chemical libraries beyond a billion molecules, more efficient virtual screening approaches are needed. The Deep Docking (DD) platform enables up to 100-fold acceleration of structure-based virtual screening by docking only a subset of a chemical library, iteratively synchronized with a ligand-based prediction of the remaining docking scores. This method results in hundreds- to thousands-fold virtual hit enrichment (without significant loss of potential drug candidates) and hence enables the screening of billion molecule-sized chemical libraries without using extraordinary computational resources. Herein, we present and discuss the generalized DD protocol that has been proven successful in various computer-aided drug discovery (CADD) campaigns and can be applied in conjunction with any conventional docking program. The protocol encompasses eight consecutive stages: molecular library preparation, receptor preparation, random sampling of a library, ligand preparation, molecular docking, model training, model inference and the residual docking. The standard DD workflow enables iterative application of stages 3-7 with continuous augmentation of the training set, and the number of such iterations can be adjusted by the user. A predefined recall value allows for control of the percentage of top-scoring molecules that are retained by DD and can be adjusted to control the library size reduction. The procedure takes 1-2 weeks (depending on the available resources) and can be completely automated on computing clusters managed by job schedulers. This open-source protocol, at https://github.com/jamesgleave/DD_protocol , can be readily deployed by CADD researchers and can significantly accelerate the effective exploration of ultra-large portions of a chemical space.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

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Nature protocols - 17(2022), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite 672-697

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gentile, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Yaacoub, Jean Charle [VerfasserIn]
Gleave, James [VerfasserIn]
Fernandez, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Ton, Anh-Tien [VerfasserIn]
Ban, Fuqiang [VerfasserIn]
Stern, Abraham [VerfasserIn]
Cherkasov, Artem [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Small Molecule Libraries

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Date Completed 07.04.2022

Date Revised 28.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41596-021-00659-2

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NLM336543905