Publication: Cheminformatics techniques in antimalarial drug discovery and development from natural products 1: basic concepts
Egieyeh, S Malan, S.F Christoffels, A
Egieyeh, S
Malan, S.F
Christoffels, A
Abstract
A large number of natural products, especially those used in ethnomedicine of malaria, have shown varying in vitro antiplasmodial activities. Facilitating antimalarial drug development from this wealth of natural products is an imperative and laudable mission to pursue. However, limited manpower, high research cost coupled with high failure rate during preclinical and clinical studies might militate against the pursuit of this mission. These limitations may be overcome with cheminformatic techniques. Cheminformatics involves the organization, integration, curation, standardization, simulation, mining and transformation of pharmacology data (compounds and bioactivity) into knowledge that can drive rational and viable drug development decisions. This chapter will review the application of cheminformatics techniques (including molecular diversity analysis, quantitative-structure activity/property relationships and Machine learning) to natural products with in vitro and in vivo antiplasmodial activities in order to facilitate their development into antimalarial drug candidates and design of new potential antimalarial compounds.
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2019-07
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De Gruyter
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Natural products,Antiplasmodial,Cheminformatics,Profiling,Antimalarial,Drug development
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Egieyeh S, Malan Sarel F, Christoffels A. Cheminformatics techniques in antimalarial drug discovery and development from natural products 1: basic concepts. Physical Sciences Review. 2019 Jul;4(7):20180130. doi: 10.1515/psr-2018-0130