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VirtualToxLab™ - In silico prediction of the toxic (endocrine-disrupting) potential of drugs, chemicals and natural products. Two years and 2,000 compounds of experience: a progress report

Angelo Vedani, Martin Smiesko, Morena Spreafico, Ourania Peristera et al. • ALTEX: Alternatives to Animal Experimentation (2009)

The VirtualToxLab™ is an in silico tool for predicting the toxic (endocrine-disrupting) potential of drugs, chemicals and natural products. It is based on a fully automated protocol and calculates the binding affinity of any molecule of int...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14573/altex.2009.3.167

Neurotoxicity of PM<sub>2.5</sub>-Bound Multi-Pollutant Mixtures in Parkinson’s Disease: Exploring the <i>INPP5D</i>/SHIP1-PI3K-AKT Axis via an Integrative Multi-Omics Study

Lufei Chen, Chaoxian Dai, Zhenfang Wu, Yuhan Lin et al. • Journal of Xenobiotics (2026)

Accumulating epidemiological evidence links ambient PM2.5 exposure to elevated Parkinson’s disease (PD) risk, yet the neurotoxicity triggered by PM2.5 multi-pollutant mixtures under real co-exposure scenarios remains insufficiently elucidat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/jox16060184

Antimicrobial topical polymeric films loaded with Acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid (AKBA), boswellic acid and silver nanoparticles: Optimization, characterization, and biological activity

Muhammad Jawad, Saurabh Bhatia, Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Sana Ullah et al. • Heliyon (2024)

The study examined the antimicrobial and antioxidant potential of pure Acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid (AKBA), boswellic acid (70%) and AKBA loaded nanoparticles as topical polymeric films. The optimized concentration (0.05 % w/v) of pure A...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31671

Coffee Silverskin Phytocompounds as a Novel Anti-Aging Functional Food: A Pharmacoinformatic Approach Combined with In Vitro Study

Clarin Hayes, Fahrul Nurkolis, Dewa Ayu Agus Sri Laksemi, Sanghyun Chung et al. • Molecules (2023)

Coffee became a beverage that was in demand in the world and consequently produced millions of tons of coffee byproducts namely coffee silverskin (CS). Unutilized CS will be waste and cause environmental pollution such as greenhouse gas emi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/molecules28207037

Semi-rational design and modification of phosphoketolase to improve the yield of tyrosol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Na Song, Huili Xia, Yaoru Xie, Shuaikang Guo et al. • Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology (2025)

Tyrosol is an important component of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and cosmetics, and their biosynthetic pathways are currently a hot research topic. d-Erythrose 4-phosphate is a key precursor for the biosynthesis of tyrosol in Saccharom...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.synbio.2024.11.007

Molecular Informatics, Chemometrics, and Sensory Omics for Constructing an Umami Peptide Cluster Library Across the Entire Lager Beer Brewing Process

Yashuai Wu, Ruiyang Yin, Wenjing Tian, Wanqiu Zhao et al. • Foods (2026)

Umami taste in lager beer not only determined body fullness and the backbone of aftertaste, but also affected the controllability and interpretability of flavor expression across the entire brewing process. Based on stage-wise sampling, pep...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/foods15040641

In silico analysis of ciprofloxacin analogs as inhibitors of DNA gyrase of Staphylococcus aureus

Md. Rakhibul Hasan, Surid Mohammad Chowdhury, Md. Abdul Aziz, Asif Shahriar et al. • Informatics in Medicine Unlocked (2021)

In this in silico study, thirty-five ciprofloxacin analogs were docked to the active site of DNA gyrase, the prime target of ciprofloxacin type antibiotics. Prior to docking all the structures were optimized using MM2 force field parameters...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.imu.2021.100748

CD36‐Binding Amphiphilic Nanoparticles for Attenuation of α‐Synuclein‐Induced Microglial Activation

Nanxia Zhao, Nicola L. Francis, Shuang Song, Vladyslav Kholodovych et al. • Advanced NanoBiomed Research (2022)

Neuroinflammation is one of the hallmarks contributing to Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology, where microglial activation occurs as one of the earliest events, triggered by extracellular α‐synuclein (aSYN) binding to the cluster of differen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/anbr.202100120

Antioxidant, Wound Healing Potential and In Silico Assessment of Naringin, Eicosane and Octacosane

Abbirami Balachandran, Sy Bing Choi, Morak-Młodawska Beata, Jeleń Małgorzata et al. • Molecules (2023)

1. Diabetic chronic wounds, mainly foot ulcers, constitute one of the most common complications of poorly managed diabetes mellitus. The most typical reasons are insufficient glycemic management, latent neuropathy, peripheral vascular disea...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/molecules28031043

Interactions of cephalexin with bovine serum albumin: displacement reaction and molecular docking

Hamed Hamishehkar, Soheila Hosseini, Abdolhossein Naseri, Azam Safarnejad et al. • BioImpacts (2016)

Introduction: The drug-plasma protein interaction is a fundamental issue in guessing and checking the serious drug side effects related with other drugs. The purpose of this research was to study the interaction of cephalexin with bovine se...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15171/bi.2016.19

Transcatheter heart valve interventions for patients with rheumatic heart disease

Hellmuth Weich, Philip Herbst, Francis Smit, Anton Doubell • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (2023)

Rheumatic heart disease [RHD] is the most prevalent cause of valvular heart disease in the world, outstripping degenerative aortic stenosis numbers fourfold. Despite this, global resources are firmly aimed at improving the management of deg...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1234165

Cellular Robotics and Micro Robotic Systems

T. Fukuda, T. Ueyama • World Scientific series in robotics and intelligent systems (1994)

Part 1 Decentralized robotic system. Part 2 Cellular robotics: concept of cellular robotics optimal structure determination analysis of communication amount knowledge allocation network organization automatic docking mechanism future work. ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/2080

Machine Learning in Virtual Screening

James L. Melville, Edmund K. Burke, Jonathan D. Hirst • Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening (2009)

In this review, we highlight recent applications of machine learning to virtual screening, focusing on the use of supervised techniques to train statistical learning algorithms to prioritize databases of molecules as active against a partic...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2174/138620709788167980

Designing novel linagliptin analogs through combined generative artificial intelligence, molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulation, and binding energy estimation for targeting fibroblast activation protein

Mingsong Shi, Mingsong Shi, Zhi Yang, Yuhan Yang et al. • Frontiers in Chemistry (2026)

Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) is a highly specific biomarker overexpressed in cancer-associated fibroblasts, making it a promising diagnostic target. Developing novel high-affinity molecular probes for FAP-targeted diagnostics remains...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2026.1848970

Cobdock: an accurate and practical machine learning-based consensus blind docking method

Sadettin Y. Ugurlu, David McDonald, Huangshu Lei, Alan M. Jones et al. • Journal of Cheminformatics (2024)

Abstract Probing the surface of proteins to predict the binding site and binding affinity for a given small molecule is a critical but challenging task in drug discovery. Blind docking addresses this issue by performing docking on binding r...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13321-023-00793-x