Peter Ertl

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Affiliation: Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Publications

  1. ncbi In silico identification of bioisosteric functional groups
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
    Curr Opin Drug Discov Devel 10:281-8. 2007
  2. ncbi Natural product-likeness score and its application for prioritization of compound libraries
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 48:68-74. 2008
  3. ncbi Cheminformatics analysis of natural products: lessons from nature inspiring the design of new drugs
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    Prog Drug Res 66:217, 219-35. 2008
  4. ncbi Quest for the rings. In silico exploration of ring universe to identify novel bioactive heteroaromatic scaffolds
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Med Chem 49:4568-73. 2006
  5. ncbi Estimation of synthetic accessibility score of drug-like molecules based on molecular complexity and fragment contributions
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Campus, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Cheminform 1:8. 2009
  6. ncbi Molecular structure input on the web
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Campus, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland
    J Cheminform 2:1. 2010
  7. ncbi Designing drugs on the internet? Free web tools and services supporting medicinal chemistry
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
    Curr Top Med Chem 7:1491-501. 2007
  8. ncbi Applications of self-organizing neural networks in virtual screening and diversity selection
    Paul Selzer
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cheminformatics, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 46:2319-23. 2006
  9. ncbi The scaffold tree: an efficient navigation in the scaffold universe
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
    Methods Mol Biol 672:245-60. 2011
  10. ncbi Clustering and rule-based classifications of chemical structures evaluated in the biological activity space
    Ansgar Schuffenhauer
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 47:325-36. 2007

Detail Information

Publications21

  1. ncbi In silico identification of bioisosteric functional groups
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
    Curr Opin Drug Discov Devel 10:281-8. 2007
    ..Examples of tools that help chemists to navigate within the group functional property space are also provided...
  2. ncbi Natural product-likeness score and its application for prioritization of compound libraries
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 48:68-74. 2008
    ....
  3. ncbi Cheminformatics analysis of natural products: lessons from nature inspiring the design of new drugs
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    Prog Drug Res 66:217, 219-35. 2008
    ....
  4. ncbi Quest for the rings. In silico exploration of ring universe to identify novel bioactive heteroaromatic scaffolds
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Med Chem 49:4568-73. 2006
    ....
  5. ncbi Estimation of synthetic accessibility score of drug-like molecules based on molecular complexity and fragment contributions
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Campus, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Cheminform 1:8. 2009
    ..The development and validation of such a method that is able to characterize molecule synthetic accessibility as a score between 1 (easy to make) and 10 (very difficult to make) is described in this article...
  6. ncbi Molecular structure input on the web
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Campus, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland
    J Cheminform 2:1. 2010
    ..Modern Ajax server-side molecule editors are also presented. And finally, the possible future direction of web-based molecule editing, based on technologies like JavaScript and Flash, is discussed...
  7. ncbi Designing drugs on the internet? Free web tools and services supporting medicinal chemistry
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
    Curr Top Med Chem 7:1491-501. 2007
    ..In this paper, we provide an overview of some of the more important of these and, in particular, the freely accessible resources that are currently available...
  8. ncbi Applications of self-organizing neural networks in virtual screening and diversity selection
    Paul Selzer
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cheminformatics, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 46:2319-23. 2006
    ..The methods described have also been implemented as an easy-to-use Web tool, allowing chemists to perform interactive neural network experiments on the Novartis intranet...
  9. ncbi The scaffold tree: an efficient navigation in the scaffold universe
    Peter Ertl
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
    Methods Mol Biol 672:245-60. 2011
    ..References to several computer programs, including also free tools available on the Internet, allowing to perform classification and visualization of molecules based on their scaffolds are also provided...
  10. ncbi Clustering and rule-based classifications of chemical structures evaluated in the biological activity space
    Ansgar Schuffenhauer
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 47:325-36. 2007
    ..On the other hand, clustering based on chemical fingerprints is superior if fewer and larger classes are required, and some loss of homogeneity in biological activity can be accepted...
  11. ncbi Complex molecules: do they add value?
    Paul Selzer
    Information and Knowledge Management at Novartis, InSilico Sciences, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    Curr Opin Chem Biol 9:310-6. 2005
    ..However, complexity must be balanced with other molecular properties because more complex molecules have a higher probability to exhibit pharmacokinetic problems...
  12. ncbi Estimation of pKa for druglike compounds using semiempirical and information-based descriptors
    Stephen Jelfs
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 47:450-9. 2007
    ..The resultant speed and accuracy of the approach has also enabled the development of Web application on the Novartis intranet for pKa prediction...
  13. ncbi The scaffold tree--visualization of the scaffold universe by hierarchical scaffold classification
    Ansgar Schuffenhauer
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 47:47-58. 2007
    ..The examples shown demonstrate that the classification procedure handles robustly synthetic structures and natural products...
  14. ncbi Relationships between Molecular Complexity, Biological Activity, and Structural Diversity
    Ansgar Schuffenhauer
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 46:525-35. 2006
    ..None of the diversity selection methods studied, namely OptiSim, divisive K-means clustering, and self-organizing maps, yielded subsets covering the activity space of the IC50 summary data set better than subsets selected randomly...
  15. ncbi Mining for bioactive scaffolds with scaffold networks: improved compound set enrichment from primary screening data
    Thibault Varin
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Forum 1, Novartis Campus, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 51:1528-38. 2011
    ..We suggest visualizing scaffold networks as islands of active scaffolds...
  16. ncbi Computational approaches to determine drug solubility
    Bernard Faller
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Campus, CH 4056 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    Adv Drug Deliv Rev 59:533-45. 2007
    ....
  17. ncbi Introducing the consensus modeling concept in genetic algorithms: application to interpretable discriminant analysis
    Milan Ganguly
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, CH-4002, Switzerland
    J Chem Inf Model 46:2110-24. 2006
    ....
  18. ncbi Compound set enrichment: a novel approach to analysis of primary HTS data
    Thibault Varin
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Forum 1, Novartis Campus, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland, and 250 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    J Chem Inf Model 50:2067-78. 2010
    ..These results suggest that this method might have utility in the rational selection of active classes of compounds (and not just individual active compounds) for followup and validation...
  19. ncbi Evolution of the physicochemical properties of marketed drugs: can history foretell the future?
    Bernard Faller
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
    Drug Discov Today 16:976-84. 2011
    ..In this new territory, semi-empirical rules derived from knowledge accumulated from historic, older molecules are not necessarily valid and different liabilities become more prominent...
  20. ncbi Virtual computational chemistry laboratory--design and description
    Igor V Tetko
    Institute of Bioorganic and Petroleum Chemistry, Kyiv, Ukraine
    J Comput Aided Mol Des 19:453-63. 2005
    ..In this article we review the main features and statistics of the developed system that can be used as a prototype for academic and industry models...
  21. ncbi Charting biologically relevant chemical space: a structural classification of natural products (SCONP)
    Marcus A Koch
    Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:17272-7. 2005
    ..11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 is a target in the development of new therapies for the treatment of diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, and obesity...