The use of 2D fingerprint methods to support the assessment of structural similarity in orphan drug legislation
By Pedro Franco, Nuria Porta, John D. Holliday, Peter Willett. 2014
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BackgroundIn the European Union, medicines are authorised for some rare disease only if they are judged to be dissimilar to authorised orphan drugs for that disease. This paper describes the use of 2D fingerprints to show the extent of the relationship between computed levels of structural similarity for pairs of molecules and expert judgments of the similarities of those pairs. The resulting relationship can be used to provide input to the assessment of new active compounds for which orphan drug authorisation is being sought.Results143 experts provided judgments of the similarity or dissimilarity of 100 pairs of drug-like molecules from the DrugBank 3.0 database. The similarities of these pairs were also computed using BCI, Daylight, ECFC4, ECFP4, MDL and Unity 2D fingerprints. Logistic regression analyses demonstrated a strong relationship between the human and computed similarity assessments, with the resulting regression models having significant predictive power in experiments using data from submissions of orphan drug medicines to the European Medicines Agency. The BCI fingerprints performed best overall on the DrugBank dataset while the BCI, Daylight, ECFP4 and Unity fingerprints performed comparably on the European Medicines Agency dataset.ConclusionsMeasures of structural similarity based on 2D fingerprints can provide a useful source of information for the assessment of orphan drug status by regulatory authorities.
Subfields: Computational Theory and Mathematics, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology
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- Comparing structural fingerprints using a literature-based similarity benchmark (2016, background): “While there has been some recent work on comparing human and computational measures of structural similarity [21], it is still the case that the “cognitive algorithms by which medicinal chemists perceive similarity are largely unknown” (to quote Maggiora et al. [22]).”