Use of Crystal Structure Informatics for Defining the Conformational Space Needed for Predicting Crystal Structures of Pharmaceutical Molecules

Iuzzolino, Luca; Reilly, Anthony M.; McCabe, Patrick; Price, Sarah L.

doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00623

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“…Such conformer generation is recommended subsequent to creating an initial threedimensional geometry if desired. [36,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45]…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Fast, Efficient Fragment-Based Coordinate Generation for Open Babel

Yoshikawa¹,

Hutchison²

2019

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<div>Rapidly predicting an accurate three dimensional geometry of a molecule is a crucial task in cheminformatics and a range of molecular modeling. Fast, accurate, and open implementation of structure prediction is necessary for reproducible cheminformatics research. We introduce fragment-based coordinate generation for Open Babel, a widely accepted open source toolkit for cheminformatics. The new implementation significant improves speed and stereochemical accuracy, while retaining or improving accuracy of bond lengths, bond angles, and dihedral torsions. We first separate an input molecule into fragments by cutting at rotatable bonds. Coordinates of fragments are set according to the fragment library, which is prepared from open crystallographic databases. Since coordinates of multiple atoms are decided at once, coordinate prediction is accelerated over the previous rules-based implementation or the widely-used distance geometry methods in RDKit. This new implementation will be beneficial for a wide range of applications, including computational property prediction in polymers, molecular materials and drug design.</div>

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“…Such conformer generation is recommended subsequent to creating an initial threedimensional geometry if desired. [36,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45]…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fast, Efficient Fragment-Based Coordinate Generation for Open Babel

Yoshikawa¹,

Hutchison²

2019

Preprint

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“…Such conformer generation is recommended subsequent to creating an initial threedimensional geometry if desired. [36,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45]…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fast, Efficient Fragment-Based Coordinate Generation for Open Babel

Yoshikawa¹,

Hutchison

2019

Preprint

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Rapidly predicting an accurate three dimensional geometry of a molecule is a crucial task for cheminformatics and across a wide range of molecular modeling. Consequently, developing a fast, accurate, and open implementation of structure prediction is necessary for reproducible cheminformatics research. We introduce a fragment-based coordinate generation implementation for Open Babel, a widely-used open source toolkit for cheminformatics. The new implementation improves speed and stereochemical accuracy, while retaining or improving accuracy of bond lengths, bond angles, and dihedral torsions. Input molecules are broken into fragments by cutting at rotatable bonds. The coordinates of fragments are set according to a fragment library, prepared from open crystallographic databases. Since the coordinates of multiple atoms are decided at once, coordinate prediction is accelerated over the previous rules-based implementation in Open Babel, as well as the widely-used distance geometry methods in RDKit. This new implementation will be beneficial for a wide range of applications, including computational property prediction in polymers, molecular materials and drug design.

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“…Some discrepancies between the predicted and experimental geometries occurred for the ligand: Macromolecule complexes in unusual conformational space, rare rotamer examples, uncertain bond types, and some other cases, nevertheless, theoretical configuration space represents well experimental data [265,266] or configurations obtained by the Molecular Operating Environment's Low Mode Molecular Dynamics module [267]. It was demonstrated that the CSD-Conformer Generator combined with ab initio [268] or DFTB3-D3 [269] calculations can be used for crystal structure prediction of some flexible pharmaceuticals. Such combination reproduced well the molecular geometry and crystal parameters, although did not provide sufficiently accurate energy ranking.…”

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Intermolecular Interactions in Functional Crystalline Materials: From Data to Knowledge

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2019

Crystals

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Intermolecular interactions of organic, inorganic, and organometallic compounds are the key to many composition-structure and structure-property networks. In this review, some of these relations and the tools developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC) to analyze them and design solid forms with desired properties are described. The potential of studies supported by the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)-Materials tools for investigation of dynamic processes in crystals, for analysis of biologically active, high energy, optical, (electro)conductive, and other functional crystalline materials, and for the prediction of novel solid forms (polymorphs, co-crystals, solvates) are discussed. Besides, some unusual applications, the potential for further development and limitations of the CCDC software are reported. Crystals 2019, 9, 478 2 of 40 these fields, the manuscript cites only (i) recent works devoted to the analysis of correlations between intermolecular interactions and properties of a small molecule (for example its inclination to form polymorphs, solvates, and co-crystals), or a corresponding solid (from a well-known requirement for non-linear optical materials to crystallize in acentric space groups, to recent studies devoted to the effect of solvent presence on mechanical properties), and (ii) the corresponding software developed to investigate these correlations and to design novel solid forms with desired physicochemical properties. As the description of structure-property networks describes mainly the papers published in the last 10 years in the field of organic, organometallic, and coordination crystals, then the software under discussion will be limited with those developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) for material chemistry and crystallography. Various examples of applications of the CCDC software to functional materials including their combination with other software, and restrictions found, will be given.First, the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and components of the CSD-Enterprise will be described in Section 2. Then, some properties related to the appearance of a given supramolecular associate, and the tools to search for an associate in the CSD will be reported in Section 3. The properties of solids dependent on the crystal morphology, the Bravais, Friedel, Donnay, and Harker (BFDH) tool for crystal morphology prediction and its' application to affect crystal morphology, polymorphism, and solvatomorphism will be reported in Section 4. Knowledge-based predictions of H-bonded polymorphism, co-crystal formation, mapping of likely intermolecular interactions, and conformer generation for the synthesis of novel functional materials will be discussed in Section 5, and the analysis of local connectivity and whole architectures of solvent molecules in Section 6. Finally, Section 7 contains information about Python API algorithms compatible with the CSD-Enterprise and about some examples of the successful combination of the CSD-Enterprise tools with exte...

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Use of Crystal Structure Informatics for Defining the Conformational Space Needed for Predicting Crystal Structures of Pharmaceutical Molecules

Cited by 21 publications

References 48 publications

Fast, Efficient Fragment-Based Coordinate Generation for Open Babel

Fast, Efficient Fragment-Based Coordinate Generation for Open Babel

Fast, Efficient Fragment-Based Coordinate Generation for Open Babel

Intermolecular Interactions in Functional Crystalline Materials: From Data to Knowledge

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