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Drug Guru: a computer software program for drug design using medicinal chemistry rules.

Stewart KD, Shiroda M, James CA

Abbott Laboratories, Global Pharmaceuticals Research and Development, Abbott Park, IL 60064, USA. kent.d.stewart@abbott.com

Drug Guru (drug generation using rules) is a new web-based computer software program for medicinal chemists that applies a set of transformations, that is, rules, to an input structure. The transformations correspond to medicinal chemistry design rules-of-thumb taken from the historical lore of drug discovery programs. The output of the program is a list of target analogs that can be evaluated for possible future synthesis. A discussion of the features of the program is followed by an example of the software applied to sildenafil (Viagra) in generating ideas for target analogs for phosphodiesterase inhibition. Comparison with other computer-assisted drug design software is given.

Published 5 September 2006 in Bioorg Med Chem, 14(20): 7011-22.
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