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Nature Biotechnology  22, 513 - 519 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nbt0504-513

Structure-aided drug design's next generation

Karl A Thiel
 
Table 1 Structural-aided and in silico drug design companies
Company (location)FocusContact/commentYear founded
3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals (Exton, PA, USA)Structure-based drug designhttp://www.jnj.com
Acquired by Johnson & Johnson, January 2003, for $88 million
1993
 
7TM Pharma (Copenhagen, Denmark)Focus on GPCR targets, including computational structure predictionhttp://www.7tm.com2000
 
Affinium Pharmaceuticals (Toronto, ON, Canada)Structure solution and homology analysishttp://afnm.com
Founded as Integrative Proteomics, from the merger of Chalon Biotech and Borealis Biosciences. Changed name in February 2002.
2000
 
AlgoNomics (Ghent, Belgium)Rationally designed vaccines based on structural genomic data.http://www.algonomics.com1999
 
Astex Technology (Cambridge, UK)High-throughput X-ray crystallography to guide 'fragment' best lead discoveryhttp://www.astex-technology.com1999
 
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (Birmingham, AL, USA); NASDAQ: BCRXStructure-based drug design, focused on PNP inhibitorshttp://www.biocryst.com1986
 
Cengent Therapeutics (San Diego, CA, USA)Structure-based drug design and contract crystallographyhttp://www.cengent.com
A merger of Structural Bioinformatics and Geneformatics in January 2003. (Geneformatics previously acquired Structure Function Genomics LLC; Structural Bioinformatics had acquired some assets of Molecular Applications Group.)
1997
 
Concurrent Pharmaceuticals (Fort Washington, PA, USA)De novo drug design and computational screeninghttp://www.concurrentpharma.com2001
 
Crystal Genomics (Taejon, Korea)High-throughput structure solution, X-ray and NMRhttp://crystalgenomics.com2000
 
deCode Genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland); NASDAQ: DCGNStructure solution via Emerald BioStructures grouphttp://www.emeraldbiostructures.com
DeCode acquired MediChem Life Sciences in March 2002, which in turn had acquired Emerald BioStructures in May 2000. The structures group is in Bainbridge Island, WA, USA.
1997
 
Pintex Pharmaceuticals (Watertown, MA, USA)Structure-based design around the Pin1 enzymehttp://www.pintexpharm.com1999
 
Predix Pharmaceuticals (Ramat Gan, Israel)De novo prediction of three-dimensional structure of G-coupled protein receptorshttp://www.predixpharm.com
Founded as BioIT; merged with Physiome Sciences in August 2003
2000
 
Rib-X Pharmaceuticals (New Haven, CT, USA)Focus on ribosomal crystallography for novel anti-infectiveshttp://www.rib-x.com2001
 
Structural GenomiX (San Diego, CA, USA)High-throughput 3-dimensional protein structure solutionhttp://www.stromix.com
Acquired Prospect Genomics
1999
 
Syrrx (San Diego, CA, USA)High-throughput crystal structure solutionhttp://www.syrrx.com2000
 
TRIAD Therapeutics (San Diego, CA, USA)NMR systems to build focused compound librarieshttp://www.triadtherapeutics.com1998
 
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA, USA); NASDAQ: VRTX'Rational drug design,' including structure solutionhttp://www.vpharm.com1989
 
Xencor (Monrovia, CA)Structure-based protein engineeringhttp://www.xencor.com1997
 
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