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VAMOS Visualization of Accessible Molecular Space A new compound filtering and selection interface Spotfire User Conference - Europe - May 20 - 21, 2003 Jens Schamberger, Graffinity Pharmaceuticals AG www.graffinity.com About Graffinity • Technology-driven drug discovery and pre-clinical development company • Founded 1998 • Headquartered in Heidelberg Germany • ~ 90 people • Funding to date 41 M Euro Technology • Proprietary Screening Platform • Chemical Microarrays • Label-free Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging • Evolutionary Drug Discovery Strategy (RAISE®) • Rapid Affinity Informed Structural Evolution Integrated Discovery Platform Parallel Chemistry Molecular Modeling Medicinal Chemistry Affinity Fingerprints Data Mining Chemical Microarrays SPR Imaging • Fragments for chemical microarrays • Monomers for combinatorial chemistry • Reagents for lead optimization Monomer 2 Compound Acquisition 4608 Individual Compounds per SPR Image Monomer 1 Distributed Supplier Information • Individual Vendors • Printed Catalogues • SD-Files • Databases • Online Databases • Compiled Collections • Available Chemical Directory (MDL) • Chemicals Available for Purchase (Accelrys) • Virtual Collections Need for supplier consolidation Database Consistency & Integration • External Databases • Individual Hviews • Limited Annotation • Company Inventory External DB Company Inventory • Well curated • Virtual Databases • Typical questions • Overlap • Similarity Need for database merging ? NO2 Selection Criteria • Range of Molecular Properties Cl HOOC • Molweight, clogP • H-Don, H-Acc, Rot.Bonds N N • Presence/ Absence of Functional Groups • Amines, Acids ... • MedChem ‘badgroups’ • Protecting Groups • O O Presence/ Absence of Substructures/Pharmacophores • privileged structures • known scaffolds Need for compound annotation Filtering Procedures • Hard Filters DATA BASE • Individual Selection Criteria e.g. : • • • • • • e.g. “at least one primary amine and molecular weight 100 - 300 Da and clogP smaller 5 and number of halogens smaller 4 Even Lipinski criteria often taken as hard filter while it was meant as a rule No step back using hard filters Need for flexible filtering tools Filter Subset List Rules and Profiles • Soft Description with Case by Case Decisions • Rules • Allowance for limited violation of criteria • e.g. “no more than one Lipinski violation” • Definition of own rules • Profiles • Subsets based on defined property profiles • Compound similarity based on common profile Need for dynamic selection tools Compound Selection from Databases Supplier consolidation Flexible filtering tools Database merging Dynamic selection tools Compound annotation Perl Typical „spotfire what-iffing“ VAMOS VAMOS Overview MDL Isis Databases Modelling and Cheminformatics O O Data Storage HOOC N N Oracle NO2 Cl VAMOS: Merging of Database ISIS Databases Available Chemicals Directory New Building Blocks External Screening Compounds In-house Registered Chemicals MDL Reagent Selector ACD NBB ESC Graffinity Unified Chemical DB IRC • Isis DB with > 600,000 unique cmpds • complete source tracking • easily expandable by additional databases VAMOS: Linking with Cheminformatics Perl DBI Graffinity Unified Chemical Extract Molecular DB Data Store Molecular Annotations Modelling & Cheminformatic Tools TRIPOS Unity DB Oracle VAMOS DB VAMOS: Storing Molecular Annotations O O HOOC + N N = NO2 Cl ISIS Database Oracle DB / Tab-Separated-Value File ________________________________ Customizable Molecular Spreadsheet „one row one structure“ „one column one property“ Standard Properties Customized Properties • • Identifiers • • Supplier Information • • MW, ClogP, Don, Acc, Rings, Nrot,... Presence of Special Substructures • • Cell Based Similarity • • privileged fragments, bad groups, .... BCUT-Space, Substructure Classes, SOM Affinity Information • „Hit on Array“ Rule Based Features • • Ranking, „Best Supplier“, ... „Lipinski-Like“ Properties • • ACD number, NewBB ID, ChemID,... Andrews Energy, ... Presence of Functional Groups • COOH, -NH2, -NH-, ...... • easily expandible N VAMOS: Flowchart SGI ACD NBB Pharmacophore and Substructure Query Definition (XML) Create/update GUCD ESC Initiate queries Get query results Cron Job Store query results IRC New New Queries Create Guide HTML Oracle Server Oracle VAMOS DB TRIPOS Unity DB VAMOS: Spotfire Guide Source Database ACD In - house : colored Collected Catalogues Supplier- Ranking very good good reasonable unreliable Similarity / Self Organizing Map Donor - Acceptor Distribution Profile Plot (Rule of Five) Conclusions VAMOS : Visualization of Accessible Molecular Space • Integrated view across databases • Extensive compound annotations • Dynamic selection & real-time filtering capabilities • Adjustable to specific compound acquisition needs • Expandable for profiling of virtual libraries • Adaptable for analysis of screening data Acknowledgement : Dr. Günther Metz Dr. Dirk Tomandl Helmut Wittneben Graffinity Pharmaceuticals AG