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A BOILED-Egg To Predict Gastrointestinal Absorption and Brain Penetration of Small Molecules.

  • Daina A SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling Group, Quartier Sorge, Bâtiment Génopode, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Zoete V SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling Group, Quartier Sorge, Bâtiment Génopode, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. vincent.zoete@sib.swiss.
  • 2016-05-25
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  • ChemMedChem. - 2016
blood-brain barrier
chemoinformatics
drug absorption
medicinal chemistry
physicochemical properties
Biological Availability
Blood-Testis Barrier
Brain
Drug Design
Gastrointestinal Tract
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Small Molecule Libraries
English Apart from efficacy and toxicity, many drug development failures are imputable to poor pharmacokinetics and bioavailability. Gastrointestinal absorption and brain access are two pharmacokinetic behaviors crucial to estimate at various stages of the drug discovery processes. To this end, the Brain Or IntestinaL EstimateD permeation method (BOILED-Egg) is proposed as an accurate predictive model that works by computing the lipophilicity and polarity of small molecules. Concomitant predictions for both brain and intestinal permeation are obtained from the same two physicochemical descriptors and straightforwardly translated into molecular design, owing to the speed, accuracy, conceptual simplicity and clear graphical output of the model. The BOILED-Egg can be applied in a variety of settings, from the filtering of chemical libraries at the early steps of drug discovery, to the evaluation of drug candidates for development.
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