Drugit: crowd-sourcing molecular design of non-peptidic VHL binders

Abstract Building on the role of human intuition in small molecule drug design, we explored whether crowdsourcing could recruit citizen scientists to this task while in parallel building awareness for this scientific process. Here, we introduce Drugit ( https://drugit.org ), the small molecule desig...

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Published in:	Nature Communications
Main Authors:	Thomas Scott, Christian Alan Paul Smethurst, Yvonne Westermaier, Moriz Mayer, Peter Greb, Roland Kousek, Tobias Biberger, Gerd Bader, Zuzana Jandova, Philipp S. Schmalhorst, Julian E. Fuchs, Aniket Magarkar, Christoph Hoenke, Thomas Gerstberger, Steven A. Combs, Richard Pape, Saksham Phul, Sandeepkumar Kothiwale, Andreas Bergner, Foldit Players, Alex G. Waterson, Harald Weinstabl, Darryl B. McConnell, Jens Meiler, Jark Böttcher, Rocco Moretti
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2025-04-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58406-0