Firman, JW, Belfield, SJ, Chen, G, Jackson, M, Lam, FH, Richmond, C, Smith, J, Steinmetz, FP and Cronin, MTD (2019) Chemoinformatic Consideration of Novel Psychoactive Substances: Compilation and Preliminary Analysis of a Categorised Dataset. Molecular Informatics, 38 (8-9). ISSN 1611-0218

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Abstract

Recent years have seen the emergence into circulation of a growing array of novel psychoactive substances (NPS). Knowledge of the pharmacological profiles and risk liability of these compounds is typically very scarce. Development of chemoinformatic tools enabling prediction of properties within uncharacterised analogues has potential be of particular use. In order to facilitate this, compilation of a chemical inventory comprising known NPS is a necessity.
Sourcing a variety of published governmental and analytical reports, a dataset composed of 690 distinct acknowledged NPS, complete with defined chemical structures, has been constructed. This is supplemented by a complementary series of 155 established psychoactive drugs of abuse (EPDA). Classification was performed in accordance with their key molecular structural features, subjective effect profiles and pharmacological mechanisms of action. In excess of forty chemical groupings, spanning seven subjective effect categories and six broad mechanisms of pharmacological action, were identified. Co-occurrence of NPS and EPDA within specific classes was common, showcasing inherent scope both for chemical read-across and for the derivation of structural alerts.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Chemoinformatic Consideration of Novel Psychoactive Substances: Compilation and Preliminary Analysis of a Categorised Dataset, which has been published in final form at 10.1002/minf.201800142. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0304 Medicinal And Biomolecular Chemistry, 0307 Theoretical And Computational Chemistry, 0601 Biochemistry And Cell Biology
Subjects:	R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Divisions:	Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences
Publisher:	Wiley-VCH Verlag
Date Deposited:	07 Dec 2018 10:53
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 09:53
DOI or ID number:	10.1002/minf.201800142
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9777

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