PACT-F:
The largest
and
most annotated knowledge base
on
bioavailability worldwide.
 

Further
Information:
 
Drug discovery
Drug development
  Cheminformatics
 ADME
 Pharmacokinetics
 Clinical trials
 Preclinical
Research
 

 
Can IMPACT-F
predict human
oral bioavailability of entirely new molecules?
 
Read the answer here.

Use of PACT-F

Preclinical And Clinical Trials Knowledge Base on Bioavailability

PACT-F is the fundamental knowledge base on bioavailability which allows to

• develop computational models to predict oral bioavailability in humans
   
• select drug candidates for clinical trials based on estimated oral bioavailability
   
• analyse the factors which influence bioavailability
   
• access bioavailability trials results of similar molecules previously investigated
   
• identify structural patterns in drug candidates which influence oral bioavailability
   
• optimise drug candidates to obtain sufficient oral bioavailability


For the first time, it is now possible to answer fundamental questions of life between humans and animals:

• Do animals respond to drugs similar to humans?
   
• How reliable are animal trials?
   
• Are animal trials useful to select drug candidates for clinical trials?

PACT-F is a structure-based knowledge base. This enables scientists to build relationships between structures and bioavailability (QSBR), such as which molecular patterns increase or decrease the bioavailability of a drug, either generally in all organisms or only in some specific species.

PACT-F is used to identify functional groups or molecular patterns which commonly lead to a low oral bioavailability in some species, like rats, but which don’t affect human oral bioavailability. This is due to genetic species differences or different metabolic pathways, making animal trials less reliable to project human oral bioavailability. In these cases, a bioavailability trial in this species will mislead the candidate selection process in drug development.

PACT-F has been used to estimate inter-subject variability of oral bioavailability in humans, results are here.

Small changes within the chemical structure can modify the bioavailability of an investigational drug dramatically. PACT-F can be used to identify and quantify the effects of substitution of functional groups.

Based on the large amount of available structures and bioavailability values in PACT-F, computational models such as neural networks or decision trees can be evolved which will guide the future optimisation of investigational compounds and the selection of drug candidates for clinical trials.

The expert system IMPACT-F which calculates oral bioavailability of novel drug candidates is based on the knowledge of PACT-F.
 

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 Knowledge Bases
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and development.