Majority of breast cancers diagnosed today are estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, however, progesterone receptor-positive (PR-positive) is
also responsible for breast cancer. Tumors that are ER/PR-positive are much more likely to respond to hormone therapy than tumors that
are ER/PR-negative. Nearly 105 ERa inhibitors from literature when docked resulted in 31 compounds (pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine analogs
and chromen-2-one derivatives) with better binding affinities. The maximum score obtained was -175.282 kcal/mol for compound, [2-(4-
Fluoro-phenylamino)-pyridin-3-yl]-{4-[2-phenyl-7- (3, 4, 5-trimethoxy-phenyl)-pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine-5-carbonyl]-piperazin-1-yl}-methanone. The
major H-bond interactions are observed with Thr347. In pursuit to identify novel ERa inhibitory ligands, virtual screening was carried out
by docking pyrazole, bipyrazole, thiazole, thiadiazole etc scaffold analogs from literature.34 bipyrazoles from literature revealed
Compound 2, ethyl 5-amino-1-(5-amino-3-anilino-4-ethoxycarbonyl-pyrazol-1-yl)-3-anilino-pyrazole-4-carboxylate, with -175.9 kcal/mol binding
affinity with the receptor, where a favourable H-bond was formed with Thr347.On the other hand, screening 2035 FDA approved drugs
from Drug Bank database resulted in 11 drugs which showed better binding affinities than ERa bound tamoxifen. Consensus scoring using
5 scoring schemes such as Mol Dock score, mcule, SwissDock, Pose&Rank and DSX respectively resulted in better rank-sumsfor
Lomitapide, Itraconazole, Cobicistat, Azilsartanmedoxomil, and Zafirlukast.