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The natural approach to winning at drug discovery High throughput drug screening is often described as a casino, with the odds stacked on the side of success as long as a big enough library is used. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 |
Navigating chemical space How big is chemistry? I don't mean how important is it, or how many people do it, but rather, how many molecules are there that we could make? |
Chemistry World May 20, 2015 Katrina Kramer |
Taking the lead on drug discovery Researchers from the UK have developed a straightforward strategy for making compounds that have the potential to become clinical drugs. |
Chemistry World August 1, 2013 James Urquhart |
Total synthesis outshines biotech route to anticancer drug US scientists have developed the first efficient and scalable route for the total synthesis of ingenol -- a plant-derived diterpenoid used to treat precancerous skin legions. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 |
Put the chemistry back in medicinal chemistry Today, synthetic skill is valued and appreciated much less in medicinal chemistry than in chemical development, though it is equally important for both. Much of the blame lies with the mismeasurement of productivity. |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Conquering Infinity with Chemical Genetics Harvard superchemist Stuart Schreiber defines the convergence of chemistry and biology. Now the field of chemical genetics is heading toward the clinic. |
Chemistry World October 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe investigates the comeback combinatorial chemistry has made in the field of drug discovery |
Chemistry World November 26, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Drug firms to share chemical compound libraries Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca and French drug company Sanofi have agreed to exchange 210,000 chemical compounds from their respective proprietary libraries. |
Chemistry World November 2011 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline In recent years there's another class of 'unknown' compounds that's become more prominent than ever: the ones you can buy from the chemical catalogues. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Chemical space is big. Really big. We are not going to run out of interesting and useful structures, and the uses that they could be put to are probably also beyond our imagining. In chemical space, we really do have an effectively endless frontier. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2007 Svetla Baykoucheva |
A New Era in Chemical Information: PubChem, DiscoveryGate, and Chemistry Central How the emergence of PubChem, DiscoveryGate and Chemistry Central are changing the field of chemical information. |
Reactive Reports September 2007 David Bradley |
Insecticidal Synthesis The efforts of 40 PhD chemistry students and many others have found a way to construct azadirachtin -- a natural insecticide from the neem tree -- in a total synthesis of 64 individual chemical reaction steps. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
Chemistry World March 5, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Forgotten synthetic PhD theses set to be given new lease of life A team of researchers have amassed a digital collection of more than 75,000 compounds from PhD theses that might otherwise have mouldered in obscurity. |
Chemistry World August 13, 2015 |
Exploiting the data mine Chemists must embrace open data to allow us to collectively get the best out of the masses of new knowledge we unearth, reports Clare Sansom |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline Problems develop when there are too few workhorse reactions, which may well generate compounds that are too similar to each other. Are we at that stage now? |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Dick Wife An interview with the chemical IT scientist and co-founder of SORD, a scientific publishing company that seeks to solve the problem of organizing the myriad of undocumented chemistry and the chaotic mess of the commercial database. |
Chemistry World March 12, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Chemical building blocks produce a wellspring of organic molecules Scientists in the US have developed an automated platform to create small organic molecules from a set of simple of chemical building blocks. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
Chemistry World July 2008 Kevin Rogers |
What future for small molecule therapy? Pharmaceutical companies overlook bench chemists at their peril |
Reactive Reports November 2005 David Bradley |
Peter Murray-Rust An interview with the scientific software developer, originally a crystallographer with a DPhil from Oxford, on how he is now helping to establish novel software and Web technologies for chemists and other scientists underpinned by the concept of open source. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2013 Andreas Barth |
Chemical bibliometrics Counting compounds instead of publications and citations opens new perspectives for data-based scientific discovery and it can complement and stimulate both experimental and theoretical research. |
Chemistry World September 7, 2014 Michael Gross |
Bringing chemical synthesis to the masses The promise of a novel approach to building chemical libraries, which only requires simple building blocks in water, without any additional reagents or sample preparation, is inspired by nature. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2014 David Bradley |
Molecular librarians create druglike collections Finding biologically active small molecules with pharmaceutical potential is a bittersweet process. Now, a new approach to building libraries of diverse alkaloid-type structures has been developed by US chemists. |
Chemistry World November 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple? |
Wired Erin Biba |
Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures. |
Bio-IT World April 2007 Vicki Glaser |
Software Solutions for Medicinal Chemistry Driven by advances in chemical synthesis, instrumentation, and high-throughput and high-content screening technology, medicinal chemistry's transition from an art to a science is benefiting from a wealth of new software products, spanning both bio- and cheminformatics. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2012 Philip Ball |
The automatic chemist Bartosz Grzybowski of Northwestern University -- who has already established himself as one of our most inventive chemists -- has unveiled a 'chemo-informatic' scheme, Chematica, that can stake a reasonable claim to being paradigm-changing. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Peace, love and understanding You'd think that the chemists and biologists working in drug discovery would understand each other pretty well by now. You would be wrong about that. |
Chemistry World June 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Breaking the rules The author finds out about some chemical tricks that can give a new drug the best possible odds of success |
Chemistry World December 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Surfing Web2O The rapid evolution of the world wide web is creating fresh opportunities - and challenges - for chemistry. |
Chemistry World |
Fishing for Chemical Answers to Biological Questions James K. Chen talks about chemical biology, his love for the outdoors and fly fishing. |
Chemistry World March 2012 |
Lead-oriented synthesis Ian Churcher and Alan Nadin call for the development of more robust synthetic tools to improve small molecule survival rates in the perilous journey from lead to drug |
Bio-IT World September 2006 Kevin Davies |
Pfizer's Global Survey of Pharmacological Space The pharma blends knowledge, computational chemistry and research informatics to build a unified database. Gathering all the data in one place offered greater control for indexing and data retrieval and management, enabling Pfizer scientists to perform global mapping. |
Chemistry World January 2008 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible Does chemical space limit a chemists' creativity? |
Chemistry World August 10, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Azadirachtin Sees First Total Synthesis A complex natural product has finally succumbed to its first total synthesis after 22 years of attempts by eminent organic chemists. |
Chemistry World August 2009 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author considers what makes a good looking drug molecule - and how beauty is in the eye of the beholder |
Chemistry World April 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Natural products can be ridiculously complicated. The sheer difficulty of the enterprise is traditionally what made pharmaceutical companies hire people who had worked in total synthesis. But, is total synthesis research still worth the effort? |
Chemistry World February 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Enzymes have been giving chemists inferiority complexes since day one, says Derek Lowe. But there's no denying their potential |
Chemistry World March 27, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Known unknowns Most dangerous substances announce themselves by their structures and reactivity, and a competent organic chemist should be able to read those signs. |
Chemistry World November 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Total synthesis is not immune to the vagaries of fickle fashion. |
Chemistry World July 14, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Natural Products Made Via a Single Parent Molecule Chemists in the US have taken inspiration from nature to devise a new concept for rapidly and efficiently synthesising structurally diverse natural products from a single common precursor. |
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 Mark D. Uehling |
Target Elimination Industry and FDA scientists turn to databases, applications software, and laboratory chips to move the safest, most effective molecules into clinical trials. |
Chemistry World October 1, 2013 Eleanor Merritt |
New software for creating green solvents Scientists in France have developed a computer-assisted organic synthesis program to design sustainable solvents from bio-based building blocks. |
Reactive Reports Issue 54 David Bradley |
Interview with Martin Walker This professor focuses his research on green chemistry and the use of fluorous biphasic systems. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm. |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible. |
Information Today May 5, 2011 Robert E. Buntrock |
SciPlanner: Latest Addition to the CAS Suite of Programs In over a century of existence, Chemical Abstract Service has become the premier source of chemical information. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2013 John Hayward |
Science of synthesis workbench edition: water in organic synthesis If a chemist is looking to do chemistry in (or on) water at the bench, Water in organic synthesis by Shu Kobayashi will be their guide. |