Abstract

Ligand-based virtual screening is a widespread method in modern drug design. It allows for a rapid screening of large compound databases in order to identify similar structures. Here we report an open-source command line tool which includes a substructure-, fingerprint- and shape-based virtual screening. Most of the implemented features fully rely on the RDKit cheminformatics framework. VSFlow accepts a wide range of input file formats and is highly customizable. Additionally, a quick visualization of the screening results as pdf and/or pymol file is supported.

Details

Title
VSFlow: an open-source ligand-based virtual screening tool
Author
Jung, Sascha 1 ; Vatheuer, Helge 1 ; Czodrowski, Paul 2 

 TU Dortmund University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Dortmund, Germany (GRID:grid.5675.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 0416 9637) 
 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Chemistry, Mainz, Germany (GRID:grid.5802.f) (ISNI:0000 0001 1941 7111) 
Pages
40
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Dec 2023
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
e-ISSN
1758-2946
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2793269413
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.