PPB

PPB predicts protein targets for small molecules by comparing multiple molecular fingerprints against ChEMBL bioactivity data.


Key Features:

  • Multi-Fingerprint Comparisons: Uses multiple molecular fingerprints to compare chemical compounds for target inference.
  • ChEMBL Bioactivity Data Integration: Integrates ChEMBL bioactivity records to ground similarity-based predictions in experimental compound–target data.

Scientific Applications:

  • Drug Discovery: Prioritizes candidate protein targets for small-molecule drug discovery.
  • Research and Development: Supports analysis of compound–target interaction hypotheses to guide experimental design.
  • Academic Studies: Enables teaching and validation of target-prediction approaches using ChEMBL-backed comparisons.

Methodology:

Performs similarity-based target prediction via multi-fingerprint comparisons against ChEMBL bioactivity data.

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Details

Tool Type:
web application
Operating Systems:
Linux, Windows, Mac
Added:
9/1/2018
Last Updated:
12/10/2018

Operations

Publications

Awale M, Reymond J. The polypharmacology browser: a web-based multi-fingerprint target prediction tool using ChEMBL bioactivity data. Journal of Cheminformatics. 2017;9(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0199-x. PMID:28270862. PMCID:PMC5319934.

Funding: - Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung: NCCR TransCure

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