Strategic selection of chemicals for testing. Part I. Functionalities and performance of basic selection methods.

abstract：:Drug repurposing provides a non-laborious and less expensive way for finding new human medicines. Computational assessment of bioactivity profiles shed light on the hidden pharmacological potential of the launched drugs. Currently, several freely available computational tools are available via the Internet, which pred...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Murtazalieva KA,Druzhilovskiy DS,Goel RK,Sastry GN,Poroikov VV

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-throughput screening (HTS) of large proprietary compound collections and combinatorial libraries has put an increased pressure on getting pharmacokinetic and drug metabolism data as early as possible. Properties related to absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) can be estimated by a range o...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Van de Waterbeemd H,De Groot M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the ever-growing number of xenobiotics that can potentially contaminate the environment, the determination of their mammalian toxicity is of prime importance. In this context, LD50 tests on rats and mice have been used for a long time to express the relative hazard associated with the acute toxicity of inorganic ...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Devillers J,Devillers H

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved binary differential search (improved BDS) algorithm is proposed for QSAR classification of diverse series of antimicrobial compounds against Candida albicans inhibitors. The transfer functions is the most important component of the BDS algorithm, and converts continuous values of the donor into discrete va...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Al-Fakih AM,Algamal ZY,Lee MH,Aziz M,Ali HTM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor is a ligand-activated transcription factor responsive to both natural and synthetic environmental compounds, with the most potent agonist being 2,3,7,8-tetrachlotrodibenzo-p-dioxin. The aim of this work was to develop a categorical COmmon REactivity PAttern (COREPA)-based structure-activi...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Petkov PI,Rowlands JC,Budinsky R,Zhao B,Denison MS,Mekenyan O

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 integrase (IN) is a retroviral enzyme that catalyses integration of the reverse-transcribed viral DNA into the host genome, which is necessary for efficient viral replication. In this study, we have performed an in silico virtual screening for the identification of potential HIV-1 IN strand transfer (ST) inhibit...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Reddy KK,Singh SK,Tripathi SK,Selvaraj C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofouling in the marine environment is a major problem. In this study, three marine organisms, namely Bacillus flexus (LD1), Pseudomonas fluorescens (MD3) and Vibrio natriegens (MD6), were isolated from biofilms formed on polymer and metal surfaces immersed in ocean water. Phylogenetic analysis of these three organis...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Sivakumar PM,Prabhawathi V,Doble M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the current concern of limiting experimental assays, increased interest now focuses on in silico models able to predict toxicity of chemicals. Endocrine disruptors cover a large number of environmental and industrial chemicals which may affect the functions of natural hormones in humans and wildlife. Structure-ac...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Panaye A,Doucet JP,Devillers J,Marchand-Geneste N,Porcher JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile hormone esterase (JHE) plays a key role in the development and metamorphosis of holometabolous insects. Its inhibitors could possibly be targeted for insect control. Conversely, JHE may also be involved in endocrine disruption by xenobiotics, resulting in detrimental effects in beneficial insects. There is th...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Doucet JP,Doucet-Panaye A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The OECD QSAR Toolbox is a software application intended to be used by governments, the chemical industry and other stakeholders in filling gaps in (eco)toxicity data needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. The development and release of the Toolbox is a cornerstone in the computerization of hazard assessment, ...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Dimitrov SD,Diderich R,Sobanski T,Pavlov TS,Chankov GV,Chapkanov AS,Karakolev YH,Temelkov SG,Vasilev RA,Gerova KD,Kuseva CD,Todorova ND,Mehmed AM,Rasenberg M,Mekenyan OG

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Index of Ideality of Correlation (IIC) is a new criterion of the predictive potential for quantitative structure-property/activity relationships. The value of the IIC is a mathematical function sensitive to the value of the correlation coefficient and dispersion (expressed via mean absolute error). The IIC has bee...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Toropov AA,Toropova AP,Selvestrel G,Benfenati E

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A special challenge in the new European Union chemicals legislation, Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals, will be the toxicological evaluation of chemicals for reproductive toxicity. Use of valid quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) is a possibility under the new legislation. This ...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Jensen GE,Niemelä JR,Wedebye EB,Nikolov NG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing toxicological data may be used for a variety of purposes such as hazard and risk assessment or toxicity prediction. The potential use of such data is, in part, dependent upon their quality. Consideration of data quality is of key importance with respect to the application of chemicals legislation such as REAC...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Przybylak KR,Madden JC,Cronin MT,Hewitt M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative structure-property relationship modelling can be a valuable alternative method to replace or reduce experimental testing. In particular, some endpoints such as octanol-water (KOW) and organic carbon-water (KOC) partition coefficients of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are easier to predict and various mo...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Yu S,Gao S,Gan Y,Zhang Y,Ruan X,Wang Y,Yang L,Shi J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract On the basis of a set of 593 experimental octanol/water partition coefficients (log P) for pesticides, the simulation performances of two models using computable descriptors are compared. The back propagation neural network model designed from autocorrelation descriptors (SAR QSAR Environ. Res. (1997), 7, 1...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Devillers J

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4) has been thought as a promising target utilized for treating various human diseases, such as inflammatory disorders, malignant tumours, acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML), bone diseases, etc. For this study, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, binding free ...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Wu SL,Wang LF,Sun HB,Wang W,Yu YX

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to estimate aquatic toxicity is a critical need for ecological risk assessment and chemical regulation. The consensus in the literature is that mode of action (MOA) based toxicity models yield the most toxicologically meaningful and, theoretically, the most accurate results. In this study, a two-step predi...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Martin TM,Young DM,Lilavois CR,Barron MG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the degradability of 26 Alkylphenols (APs) by Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and/or 5-day Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD(5)), and to describe these data from Quantitative Structure-activity Relationships (QSARs). Statistical analysis techniques, such as Multiple Linear Regression (...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Kim JH,Gramatica P,Kim MG,Kim D,Tratnyek PG

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical structures of organic compounds are characterized numerically by a variety of structural descriptors, one of the earliest and most widely used being the Wiener index W, derived from the interatomic distances in a molecular graph. Extensive use of distance-based structural descriptors or topological indices ha...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Ivanciuc O,Ivanciuc T,Klein DJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present theoretical study analyses the Quantum QSPR fundamental linear equation predictive power. Two main alternative algorithms, among several possible choices, are fully described in an add one and add many basis, while the other possibilities are only sketched out. It is shown that one can also apply the descr...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Carbó-Dorca R

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies are useful computational tools often used in drug discovery research and in many scientific disciplines. In this study, a robust fragment-similarity-based QSAR (FS-QSAR) algorithm was developed to correlate structures with biological activities by integrating...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Myint KZ,Ma C,Wang L,Xie XQ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach to the interpretation of backpropagation neural network models for quantitative structure-activity and structure-property relationships (QSAR/QSPR) studies is proposed. The method is based on analyzing the first and second moments of distribution of the values of the first and the second partial derivative...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Baskin II,Ait AO,Halberstam NM,Palyulin VA,Zefirov NS

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) models were developed for predicting the pungency of a set of capsaicinoids. Multiple linear regression (MLR) coupled with topological substructural molecular descriptor (TOPS-MODE) approach was used. The best MLR model based on only five orthogonalized TOPS-MODE var...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Yu S,Jia S,Wang D,Lv Z,Chen Y,Wang N,Yao W,Yuan J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotoxicity is a key toxicity endpoint for current regulatory requirements regarding new and existing chemicals. However, genotoxicity testing is time-consuming and costly, and involves the use of laboratory animals. This has motivated the development of computational approaches, designed to predict genotoxicity with...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Pérez-Garrido A,Girón-Rodríguez F,Morales Helguera A,Borges F,Combes RD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular modelling studies were performed to identify the essential structural requirements of quinoline-based derivatives for improving their antimalarial activity. The developed CoMFA, CoMSIA and HQSAR models for a training set comprising 37 derivatives showed good statistical significance in terms of internal cros...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Sharma R,Patil S,Maurya P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining our previous QSAR work with recent high-level quantum mechanical calculations, a plausible mechanism for the mutagenic activity of halogenated furanones (so called MX compounds) in Salmonella typhimurium TA100 tester strain is proposed. The mechanism involves one-electron reduction as a key step and it seems...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Tuppurainen K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas phase acidity and basicity estimation models have been developed for acidic and basic functional groups of amino acid side-chains and also for a number of small organic molecules. The acidic functional groups include aliphatic and aromatic alcohol, and aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acid, and the basic function...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： You H,Kim GE,Na CH,Lee S,Lee CJ,Cho KH,Akiyama Y,Ishida T,No KT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern industrialisation has led to the production of millions of toxic chemicals having hazardous effects on the ecosystem. It is impracticable to determine the toxic potential of a large number of chemicals in animal models, making the use of quantitative structure-toxicity relationship (QSTR) models an alternative ...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Roy K,Das RN

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative toxicity (log IGC50(-1)) of 49 selected aliphatic amines and aminoalkanols was evaluated in the static Tetrahymena pyriformis population growth impairment assay. Excess toxicity, indicated by potency greater than predicted for non-polar narcotic alkanols, was associated with both classes of test chemicals...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Sinks GD,Carver TA,Schultz TW

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Quantitative Ion Character-Activity Relationship (QICAR) method was used for correlating metal ionic characteristics with the maximum adsorption capacity (qmax) of multi-walled carbon for heavy metals. The experimental values of qmax for 25 heavy metal ions, estimated by the Langmuir isotherm model, were used to c...

journal_title：SAR and QSAR in environmental research

authors： Salahinejad M,Zolfonoun E

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00