Edit 10/9/14 – Updated statistics for the 1024 bit fingerprints There’s been some discussion about a paper by O’Hagan et al that have proposed a Rule of 0.5 that states that 90% of approved drugs exhibit a Tanimoto similarity > 0.5 to one or more human metabolites. Their analysis is based on metabolites listed in […]
Visualizing PAINS SMARTS
A few days ago I had made available a SMARTS version of the PAINS substructural filters, that were converted using CACTVS from the original SLN patterns. I had mentioned that the SMARTSViewer application was a handy way to visualize the complex SMARTS patterns. Matthias Rarey let me know that his student had converted all the […]
PAINS Substructure Filters as SMARTS
Sometime back Baell et al published an interesting paper describing a set of substructure filters to identify compounds that are promiscuous in high throughput biochemical screens. They termed these compounds Pan Assay Interference Compounds or PAINS. There are a variety of functional groups that are known to be problematic in HTS assays. The reasons for […]