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SPLICE: A program to assemble partial query solutions from three-dimensional database searches into novel ligands

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SPLICE is a program that processes partial query solutions retrieved from 3D, structural databases to generate novel, aggregate ligands. It is designed to interface with the database searching program FOUNDATION, which retrieves fragments containing any combination of a user-specified minimum number of matching query elements. SPLICE eliminates aspects of structures that are physically incapable of binding within the active site. Then, a systematic rule-based procedure is performed upon the remaining fragments to ensure receptor complementarity. All modifications are automated and remain transparent to the user. Ligands are then assembled by linking components into composite structures through overlapping bonds. As a control experiment, FOUNDATION and SPLICE were used to reconstruct a know HIV-1 protease inhibitor after it had been fragmented, reoriented, and added to a sham database of fifty different small molecules. To illustrate the capabilities of this program, a 3D search query containing the pharmacophoric elements of an aspartic proteinase-inhibitor crystal complex was searched using FOUNDATION against a subset of the Cambridge Structural Database. One hundred thirty-one compounds were retrieved, each containing any combination of at least four query elements. Compounds were automatically screened and edited for receptor complementarity. Numerous combinations of fragments were discovered that could be linked to form novel structures, containing a greater number of pharmacophoric elements than any single retrieved fragment.

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Ho, C.M.W., Marshall, G.R. SPLICE: A program to assemble partial query solutions from three-dimensional database searches into novel ligands. J Computer-Aided Mol Des 7, 623–647 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00125322

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