Donated chemical probes for open science
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Journal ArticlePublication Date
2018-04-20Keywords
Chemical probesOpen Science
Target validation
biochemistry
chemical biology
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
Biochemistry
Chemical and Pharmacologic Phenomena
Chemicals and Drugs
Medicinal-Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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Potent, selective and broadly characterized small molecule modulators of protein function (chemical probes) are powerful research reagents. The pharmaceutical industry has generated many high-quality chemical probes and several of these have been made available to academia. However, probe-associated data and control compounds, such as inactive structurally related molecules and their associated data, are generally not accessible. The lack of data and guidance makes it difficult for researchers to decide which chemical tools to choose. Several pharmaceutical companies (AbbVie, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Janssen, MSD, Pfizer, and Takeda) have therefore entered into a pre-competitive collaboration to make available a large number of innovative high-quality probes, including all probe-associated data, control compounds and recommendations on use (https://openscienceprobes.sgc-frankfurt.de/). Here we describe the chemical tools and target-related knowledge that have been made available, and encourage others to join the project.Source
Elife. 2018 Apr 20;7. pii: 34311. doi: 10.7554/eLife.34311. Link to article on publisher's site
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/40639PubMed ID
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