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The COVID‐19 pandemic continues to pose a substantial threat to human lives and is likely to do so for years to come. Despite the availability of vaccines, searching for efficient small‐molecule drugs that are widely available, including in low‐ and middle‐income countries, is an ongoing challenge. In this work, we report the results of an open science community effort, the “Billion molecules against COVID‐19 challenge”, to identify small‐molecule inhibitors against SARS‐CoV‐2 or relevant human receptors. Participating teams used a wide variety of computational methods to screen a minimum of 1 billion virtual molecules against 6 protein targets. Overall, 31 teams participated, and they suggested a total of 639,024 molecules, which were subsequently ranked to find ‘consensus compounds’. The organizing team coordinated with various contract research organizations (CROs) and collaborating institutions to synthesize and test 878 compounds for biological activity against proteases (Nsp5, Nsp3, TMPRSS2), nucleocapsid N, RdRP (only the Nsp12 domain), and (alpha) spike protein S. Overall, 27 compounds with weak inhibition/binding were experimentally identified by binding‐, cleavage‐, and/or viral suppression assays and are presented here. Open science approaches such as the one presented here contribute to the knowledge base of future drug discovery efforts in finding better SARS‐CoV‐2 treatments.
SEEK ID: https://publications.h-its.org/publications/1723
Research Groups: Molecular and Cellular Modeling
Publication type: Journal
Journal: Molecular Informatics
Citation: Molecular Informatics 43(1),e202300262
Date Published: 2024
Registered Mode: by DOI
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Schimunek, J., Seidl, P., Elez, K., Hempel, T., Le, T., Noé, F., Olsson, S., Raich, L., Winter, R., Gokcan, H., Gusev, F., Gutkin, E. M., Isayev, O., Kurnikova, M. G., Narangoda, C. H., Zubatyuk, R., Bosko, I. P., Furs, K. V., Karpenko, A. D., … Hermans, T. M. (2023). A community effort in SARS‐CoV‐2 drug discovery. In Molecular Informatics (Vol. 43, Issue 1). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/minf.202300262
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