Multi-objective Optimization of Benzamide Derivatives as Rho Kinase Inhibitors.

Despite recent advances in Computer Aided Drug Discovery and High Throughput Screening, the attrition rates of drug candidates continue to be high, underscoring the inherent complexity of the drug discovery paradigm. Indeed, a compromise between several objectives is often required to obtain successful clinical drugs. The present manuscript details a multi-objective workflow that integrates the 4D-QSAR and molecular docking methods in the simultaneous modeling of the Rho Kinase inhibitory activity and acute toxicity of Benzamide derivatives.

QSAR Models Guided by Molecular Dynamics Applied to Human Glucokinase Activators.

In this study, quantitative structure-activity relationship studies which make use of molecular dynamics trajectories were performed on a set of 54 glucokinase protein activators. The conformations obtained by molecular dynamics simulation were superimposed according to the twelve alignments tested in a virtual three-dimensional box comprised of 2 Å cells. The models were generated by the technique that combines genetic algorithms and partial least squares.