Bicycle Race - By Queen (given a bit of an updated for summer 2022 by Al Dossetter) Bicycles, bicycles, bicycles We want to ride our bicycles, bicycles, bicycles We want to ride our bicycles We want to ride our bikes We want to ride our bicycles We want to ride it where we like You

There be Rings in them Drugs This month, we choose to highlight a paper published by researchers at UCB in which cheminformatics techniques were utilised to provide a detailed analysis of the ring systems present in drug and clinical trial compounds. Using a virtual fragmentation technique on drug and clinical trial compound libraries, the authors

Life after a PhD By Dr Lauren Reid When I joined MedChemica in 2020, I had recently completed a PhD in computational chemistry, in which I had focused on molecular dynamics simulations. Joining a cheminformatics company was a chance for me to branch out into a different area of computational chemistry. I was excited to

Glioblastoma: Current Status, Emerging Targets, and Recent Advances I am picking this paper as a personal choice. A friend, Peter recently died from a brain tumour, and took his disease, and treatment with amazing stoicism. We thought for a couple of month he was in the clear, but the tumours returned and non of the

MedChemica on the Move. Here it is The Motorworks in the centre of Macclesfields - only 5 minutes walk from the train station. We have been expanding for the last 2 years so need a bigger office. Our employees wanted a greener commute, so the centre of Macclesfield made sense. Everyone has an improved route

MCPairs v1.8 release is automatically available to all users: MCPairs version 1.8 went live last weekend. All Online users are upgraded to the new platform, and all new tools are available to everyone. There is a small change in look and feel (the "Pizza Wheels" have been revamped, for example) but just about everything is

Optimizing Shape Complementarity Enables the Discovery of Potent Tricyclic BCL6 Inhibitors In this article from the Institute for Cancer Research, binders of B-cell lymphoma 6 protein were sought. Previous work showed that there was potential hydrophobic pocket adjacent to the lead series and careful work to fill this pocket was pursued. Initial approaches considered fused

Discovery of S-217622, a Noncovalent Oral SARS-CoV-2 3CL Protease Inhibitor Clinical Candidate for Treating COVID-19 Tachibana* et al J. Med. Chem. 2022, 65, 9, 6499–6512 Naturally we would be drawn to a SARS-CoV2 Protease inhibitor paper. This one has been made openly available, which is a bonus. The team started with available chemical information from

With a successful vaccine roll out and boasters jabs in the UK, the first full in person conferences have been taking place again. In the last two weeks I have attended two; of course, the virus does know about conferences so I was still wearing a face mask, even though the restrictions have been lifted.

Small Molecule CNS compounds for neuropathic pain "In general, neuropathic pain conditions are under-recognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated." The challenge to treating this disease is finding a safe, brain penetrating small molecule that effects the root cause. AAK1 show promise as a target, and this paper show the progress of a series of bi-aryl compounds. CNS