... The body of literature is addressing the issues facing compounds that are discovered
by screening of drug-size compound libraries. A novel, alternative approach has recently
emerged and is referred to as 'fragment-based' discovery . ...

... the linked-fragment method proposed by Verlinde,20 Dean's fragment-based automated site ... or
more frag- ments.24 Purely computational approaches to drug discovery, including fragment ... The
most conceptually straightfor- ward approach to identifying fragments is through a ...

... A Knowledge-Based Approach in Designing Combinatorial or Medicinal Chemistry Libraries
for Drug Discovery. 1. A Qualitative and Quantitative Characterization of Known Drug Databases. ...

... Here, we describe the development and evolution of fragment-based drug design, analyse the
role that this approach can have in combination with other discovery technologies and highlight
the impact that fragment-based methods have made in progressing new medicines ...

... A particular approach to lead identification for drug discovery involves the selection, screening
and optimization of so-called fragments (also referred to as needles 1 , shapes 2 , binding
elements 3 or seed templates 4 ). This review discusses fragment-based lead discovery ...

... Abbreviations: FBDD, fragment-based drug discovery; HTS, high-throughput screening; HCS,
high-concentration screening ... atom count; GE, group efficiency; SBDD, structure-based drug design;
MWT ... From its inception, the fragment-based approach had two central tenets that ...

... A new approach for the calculation of the PSA is presented here, based on the ... identical with the
3D PSA (the correlation coefficient between 3D PSA and fragment-based TPSA for ... penetration,
is one of the key factors accelerating the process of drug discovery and development. ...

... The concepts behind the approach including decreasing the numbers but increasing the
information content during lead ... is now focused on deciding when and how best to use
fragment-based discovery so that it adds significant value to lead and drug discovery programmes ...

... 4 A. Gill, New lead generation strategies for protein-kinase inhibitors-fragment based screening
approaches. ... 5 D. Fattori, Molecular recognition: the fragment approach in lead generation. ...
Molecular complexity and its impact on the probability of finding leads for drug discovery. ...

Abstract: In the last 20 years the advent of new technologies, such as high-throughput
screening (HTS) and combinatorial chemistry, has produced new tools for the discovery of
biologically active molecules. In the past decade, fragment-based drug discovery has ...