Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Chemical space docking enables large-scale structure-based virtual screening to discover ROCK1 kinase inhibitors

  • Paul Beroza,
  • James J. Crawford,
  • Oleg Ganichkin,
  • Leo Gendelev,
  • Seth F. Harris,
  • Raphael Klein,
  • Anh Miu,
  • Stefan Steinbacher,
  • Franca-Maria Klingler,
  • Christian Lemmen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33981-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Virtual screening of huge libraries is successful in identifying drug leads. Here, the authors describe a computational strategy, Chemical Space Docking, which combines docking with a reaction-based search of compounds, thereby enabling the exploration of billions of compounds and beyond.