Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco, Università del Piemonte Orientale 'A. Avogadro', L.go Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy; Current affiliation: Dept. of Chemistry - BMC, University of Uppsala, Husargatan 3, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco, Università del Piemonte Orientale 'A. Avogadro', L.go Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy; Current affiliation: VaxYnethic s.r.l., ZI Sentino, 53040 Rapolano Terme (SI), Italy.
Drug Discov Today. 2018 Mar;23(3):565-574. doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2018.01.007. Epub 2018 Jan 9.
We are used to considering chemical and biological spaces as two different entities; although they represent a more-interconnected world, in fact they represent a Yin-Yang concept in drug discovery. Chemical-biological space is as vast as the universe and, as Douglas Adams famously said, 'Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is'. However, many researchers are convinced that it is not so infinite, and are designing computational and experimental tools to help identify and explore all possible chemical-biological space. Here, we provide an analysis of their approaches and discuss possible future research studies.
我们习惯于将化学空间和生物空间视为两个不同的实体；尽管它们代表了一个更加相互关联的世界，但实际上它们代表了药物发现中的阴阳概念。化学-生物空间与宇宙一样广阔，正如道格拉斯·亚当斯(Douglas Adams)著名地说：“空间很大。你只是无法相信它有多大、多庞大、多么不可思议”。然而，许多研究人员确信它并不是无限的，并正在设计计算和实验工具来帮助识别和探索所有可能的化学-生物空间。在这里，我们对他们的方法进行了分析，并讨论了可能的未来研究。
