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Nontargeted mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in life sciences and environmental chemistry to investigate large sets of samples. A major problem for larger-scale MS studies is data gaps or missing values in aligned data sets. The main causes for these data gaps are the absence of the compound from the sample, issues related to chromatography or mass spectrometry (for example, broad peaks, early eluting peaks, ion suppression, low ionization efficiency), and issues related to software (mainly limitations of peak detection algorithms). While those algorithms are heuristic by necessity and should be used with strict settings to minimize the number of false positive and negative peaks in a data set, gap filling may be used to reduce missing data in single samples remaining after peak detection. In this study, we present a new gap filling algorithm. The method is based on the symbolic aggregation approximation (SAX) algorithm that was developed for the evaluation and classification of time series in data mining studies. We adopted SAX for liquid chromatography high-resolution MS nontarget screening to support the detection of missing peaks in aligned mass spectral data sets. The SAX-based algorithm improves the detection efficiency considerably compared to existing gap filling methods including the Peak Finder algorithm provided in MZmine.Aromatic β-diketones have been extensively employed as highly effective sensitizers in luminescent lanthanide complexes. However, the difficulties to make the chiral modified groups effectively participate in the frontier molecular orbital (FMO) distributions limit their applications on lanthanide circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) fields. Considering the inherent chirality of the helical structure, a pair of enantiopure dinuclear europium quadruple-stranded helicates, ΔΔ/ΛΛ-(HNEt3)2(Eu2L4) (ΔΔ/ΛΛ)-1; L = R/S-1,2-bis(4,4'-bis(4,4,4-trifluoro-1,3-dioxobutyl)phenoxyl)propane are assembled via a point chirality induced strategy. The comprehensive spectral characteristics combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations demonstrate that the one point chirality at the spacer of the ligand successfully controls the Δ or Λ configuration around the Eu(III) ion center and the P or M helical patterns of the helicates. The mirror-image CPL and CD spectra further confirm the formation of the enantiomer pairs. As expected, the helicate presents a higher luminescence quantum yield (QY) of 68% and a large |glum| value (0.146). This study effectively combines the excellent sensitization capability of β-diketone and the helical chirality of helicates. This strategy provides an effective path for the synthesis of lanthanide material with excellent CPL performance.Relative free energy perturbation (FEP) methods have become increasingly popular within the pharmaceutical industry; however, despite time constraints within drug discovery cycles, caution should be applied in the deployment of such methods as protein preparation and system setup can greatly impact the accuracy of free energy predictions.Directed evolution is a powerful approach for engineering proteins with enhanced affinity or specificity for a ligand of interest but typically requires many rounds of screening/library mutagenesis to obtain mutants with desired properties. Furthermore, mutant libraries generally only cover a small fraction of the available sequence space. Here, for the first time, we use ordinal regression to model protein sequence data generated through successive rounds of sorting and amplification of a protein-ligand system. We show that the ordinal regression model trained on only two sorts successfully predicts chromodomain CBX1 mutants that would have stronger binding affinity with the H3K9me3 peptide. Furthermore, we can extract the predictive features using contextual regression, a method to interpret nonlinear models, which successfully guides identification of strong binders not even present in the original library. We have demonstrated the power of this approach by experimentally confirming that we were able to achieve the same improvement in binding affinity previously achieved through a more laborious directed evolution process. This study presents an approach that reduces the number of rounds of selection required to isolate strong binders and facilitates the identification of strong binders not present in the original library.Deep learning has proven to be a powerful method with applications in various fields including image, language, and biomedical data. Thanks to the libraries and toolkits such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras, researchers can use different deep learning architectures and data sets for rapid modeling. However, the available implementations of neural networks using these toolkits are usually designed for a specific research and are difficult to transfer to other work. Here, we present autoBioSeqpy, a tool that uses deep learning for biological sequence classification. The advantage of this tool is its simplicity. Users only need to prepare the input data set and then use a command line interface. Then, autoBioSeqpy automatically executes a series of customizable steps including text reading, parameter initialization, sequence encoding, model loading, training, and evaluation. In addition, the tool provides various ready-to-apply and adapt model templates to improve the usability of these networks. We introduce the application of autoBioSeqpy on three biological sequence problems the prediction of type III secreted proteins, protein subcellular localization, and CRISPR/Cas9 sgRNA activity. autoBioSeqpy is freely available with examples at https//github.com/jingry/autoBioSeqpy.Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are attractive targets for drug design because of their essential role in numerous cellular processes and disease pathways. However, in general, PPIs display exposed binding pockets at the interface, and as such, have been largely unexploited for therapeutic interventions with low-molecular weight compounds. Here, we used docking and various rescoring strategies in an attempt to recover PPI inhibitors from a set of active and inactive molecules for 11 targets collected in ChEMBL and PubChem. Our focus is on the screening power of the various developed protocols and on using fast approaches so as to be able to apply such a strategy to the screening of ultralarge libraries in the future. First, we docked compounds into each target using the fast "pscreen" mode of the structure-based virtual screening (VS) package Surflex. https://www.selleckchem.com/ Subsequently, the docking poses were postprocessed to derive a set of 3D topological descriptors (i) shape similarity and (ii) interaction fingerprint similarity with a co-crystallized inhibitor, (iii) solvent-accessible surface area, and (iv) extent of deviation from the geometric center of a reference inhibitor.