02126nas a2200217   4500008004100000022001400041245008400055210006900139260011100208300001200319490000700331520132700338653002101665653001201686653001601698653001301714653002201727100003301749700001501782856011101797       2015                        eng d  a1386-207300aRole of open source tools and resources in virtual screening for drug discovery0 aRole of open source tools and resources in virtual screening for  aEXECUTIVE STE Y-2, PO BOX 7917, SAIF ZONE, 1200 BR SHARJAH, U ARAB EMIRATESbBENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTDcJUL  a528-5430 v183 a<p>Advancement in chemoinformatics research in parallel with availability of high performance computing platform has made handling of large scale multi-dimensional scientific data for high throughput drug discovery easier. In this study we have explored publicly available molecular databases with the help of open-source based integrated in-house molecular informatics tools for virtual screening. The virtual screening literature for past decade has been extensively investigated and thoroughly analyzed to reveal interesting patterns with respect to the drug, target, scaffold and disease space. The review also focuses on the integrated chemoinformatics tools that are capable of harvesting chemical data from textual literature information and transform them into truly computable chemical structures, identification of unique fragments and scaffolds from a class of compounds, automatic generation of focused virtual libraries, computation of molecular descriptors for structure-activity relationship studies, application of conventional filters used in lead discovery along with in-house developed exhaustive PTC (Pharmacophore, Toxicophores and Chemophores) filters and machine learning tools for the design of potential disease specific inhibitors. A case study on kinase inhibitors is provided as an example.</p>10aChemoinformatics10akinases10aopen source10ascaffold10avirtual screening1 aKarthikeyan, Muthukumarasamy1 aVyas, Renu  uhttps://library.ncl.res.in/content/role-open-source-tools-and-resources-virtual-screening-drug-discovery-0