Our paper Chemical space guided discovery of antimicrobial bridged bicyclic peptides against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its biofilms has been chosen to be featured on the cover of the October issue of Chemical Science. The paper is available here.

How machine learning and big data are helping chemists search the vast chemical universe for better medicines. An interview with Prof. Jean-Louis Reymond has been featured in a recent news item on nature.com.

The paper Peptide Dendrimer–Lipid Conjugates as DNA and siRNA Transfection Reagents: Role of Charge Distribution Across Generations is now published in the journal Chimia. Transfection reagents are used to deliver DNA and siRNA into cells to achieve genetic manipulations, and may ultimately enable nonviral gene therapy. Progress in transfection

The paper WebMolCS: a Web-Based Interface for Visualizing Molecules in 3D Chemical Spaces has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. The concept of chemical space provides a convenient framework to analyze large collections of molecules by placing them in property spaces where distances represent

The paper Characterization of the single-subunit oligosaccharyltransferase STT3A from Trypanosoma brucei using synthetic peptides and lipid-linked oligosaccharide analogs has been published in the journal Glycobiology. The initial transfer of a complex glycan in protein N-glycosylation is catalyzed by oligosaccharyltransferase (OST), which is generally a multi-subunit membrane protein complex in the

The paper The polypharmacology browser: a web-based multi-fingerprint target prediction tool using ChEMBL bioactivity data has been published in Journal of Cheminformatics. Background Several web-based tools have been reported recently which predict the possible targets of a small molecule by similarity to compounds of known bioactivity using molecular fingerprints (fps)