ELECTROSTATIC SIMILARITY FOR LEAD-HOPPING

EON

EON is an electrostatics comparison program. It compares electrostatic potential maps of pre-aligned molecules and determines the Tanimoto measures for the comparison.

As the electrostatic potential of molecules is not strongly linked to the molecular graph, EON can screen molecular databases for electrostatic similarity to a lead compound to identify lead-hops.

In particular, the electrostatic comparison program EON has shown promise in identifying leads and tool compounds… -- Boström et al. (J. Med. Chem. 2013)

Illustration of the electrostatic similarity between two fibrinolysis inhibitors TXA (tranexamic acid) and 4-PIOL (5-(4-piperidyl)-3- isoxazolol) (Tshape = 0.77; TElectrostatic: 0.35) from Boström et.al. [3]

Features

Identifies molecules with high electrostatic similarity
Reports rigorous Tanimoto measure between electrostatic grids
Offers various charge models; user-defined models may also be used
Integrates well with ROCS^®
Distributed processing via MPI for all supported platforms
Available as both an application and a toolkit, as well as on the cloud

A ligand binds to a receptor when the 3-D shape it generates is complimentary to the receptor binding site and when the electrostatics of the ligand are complimentary to the electrostatics of the active site.

Since the input molecules must already be aligned, EON is suitable for analyzing the output structures from programs such as ROCS, thus yielding compounds with similar shape and electrostatics.

EON contributes significantly to lead generation and library design. In a published study, Abbott scientists reported that EON's post-processing of ROCS hits helped them lead-hop a MCH-1 series that had demonstrated in vivo potency issues [1]. In a chemical genomics project directed toward antagonists for NAADP, EON was used in complement to ROCS to identify a low nanomolar binder to the NAADP receptor [2].

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