Rational methods for the selection of diverse screening compounds.
Traditionally a pursuit of large pharmaceutical companies, high-throughput screening assays are becoming increasingly common within academic and government laboratories. This shift has been instrumental in enabling projects that have not been commercially viable, such as chemical probe discovery and screening against high-risk targets. Once an assay has been prepared and validated, it must be fed with screening compounds. Crafting a successful collection of small molecules for screening poses a significant challenge. An optimized collection will minimize false positives while maximizing hit rates of compounds that are amenable to lead generation and optimization. Without due consideration of the relevant protein targets and the downstream screening assays, compound filtering and selection can fail to explore the great extent of chemical diversity and eschew valuable novelty. Herein, we discuss the different factors to be considered and methods that may be employed when assembling a structurally diverse compound collection for screening. Rational methods for selecting diverse chemical libraries are essential for their effective use in high-throughput screens.
TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
David J
DJ
Huggins
Ashok R
AR
Venkitaraman
David R
DR
Spring
D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / Q000379:methods*; D057166:High-Throughput Screening Assays / Q000379:methods*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000032:analysis*; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries
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