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What are the challenges for medicinal chemists when working with 3D structures? - Interview

The continuous increase in the available 3D structural data brings along changes in the medicinal chemistry field. Dr. George Sheppard, Senior Principal Research Scientist at AbbVie, shared his thoughts on the benefits for medicinal chemists using 3D information, current challenges and limitations, and proposed potential ways for improvement, in the following interview.

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Getting ready for AlphaFold with 3decision®

Google-owned company DeepMind has achieved to predict 3D protein shapes with high accuracy and speed using the AI program AlphaFold. Although still in the early phase, this method can have a significant impact on drug discovery, accelerating the development of new drugs. In this article, we are discussing the importance of getting ready for the new source of structural data and how to gain the most of structural knowledge.

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Should medicinal chemists use 3D molecular modeling tools?

We sat down with Dr. Alexis Denis, Ph.D. Medicinal Chemistry Director at Galapagos to collect his thoughts on the question: Should medicinal chemists use 3D molecular modeling tools?
We were able to understand how he manages the collaboration in SBDD teams, but also to understand his vision of how these positions/roles could evolve in the future.

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Discngine & UserStudio: Uplifting User Experience in life science research applications

Recently, our collaborative platform, 3decision, just saw itself complemented with two new features (subpocket search & interaction search) and a radically different User Experience (UX). This new UX, with an updated User Interface (UI), is the result of months of collaborative work between UserStudio and the 3decision team.
In order to tell the story of this project, we gathered people from both companies to answer a few questions.

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