Global Analysis of Chemical Probes as Described in Public Databases Uncovers Major Limitations and Biases
(A) Infographic showing a human silhouette representing the human proteome and areas indicating: the proportion of the proteome estimated to be druggable but currently unliganded (green; , ); the proportion found to have been already liganded (purple; see ); and the proportion that can be studied currently with chemical tools fulfilling minimum requirements of potency, selectivity, and permeability (red; see ).
(B) Venn diagram illustrating the proportion of the 2,220 liganded human protein targets that can be studied with chemical tools fulfilling minimum requirements of potency, selectivity, and permeability.
(C) Venn diagram illustrating the number of chemical compounds fulfilling minimum requirements of potency, selectivity, and permeability.
(D) Top 50 targets with the largest number of compounds fulfilling minimum requirements of potency, selectivity, and permeability.
(E) Compound selectivity per number of targets tested uncovers a very reduced exploration of compound selectivity.
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