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Virtual Screening Pipeline - Virtual screening: search PubChem by substructure, compute similarity, filter by drug-likeness, and predict binding affinity. Use this skill for drug discovery tasks involving search pubchem by smiles calculate smiles similarity calculate mol drug chemistry boltz bind...

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Virtual Screening Pipeline

Discipline: Drug Discovery | Tools Used: 4 | Servers: 3

Description

Virtual screening: search PubChem by substructure, compute similarity, filter by drug-likeness, and predict binding affinity.

Tools Used

  • search_pubchem_by_smiles from pubchem-server (streamable-http) - https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/8/Origene-PubChem
  • calculate_smiles_similarity from server-2 (streamable-http) - https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/2/DrugSDA-Tool
  • calculate_mol_drug_chemistry from server-2 (streamable-http) - https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/2/DrugSDA-Tool
  • boltz_binding_affinity from server-3 (streamable-http) - https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/3/DrugSDA-Model

Workflow

  1. Search similar compounds in PubChem
  2. Compute molecular similarity
  3. Filter by drug-likeness
  4. Predict binding affinity

Test Case

Input

{
    "query_smiles": "c1ccc(-c2ccccc2)cc1",
    "target_protein": "MKTIIALSYIFCLVFA"
}

Expected Steps

  1. Search similar compounds in PubChem
  2. Compute molecular similarity
  3. Filter by drug-likeness
  4. Predict binding affinity

Usage Example

Note: Replace <YOUR_SCP_HUB_API_KEY> with your own SCP Hub API Key. You can obtain one from the SCP Platform.

import asyncio
import json
from mcp import ClientSession
from mcp.client.streamable_http import streamablehttp_client
from mcp.client.sse import sse_client

SERVERS = {
    "pubchem-server": "https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/8/Origene-PubChem",
    "server-2": "https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/2/DrugSDA-Tool",
    "server-3": "https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/3/DrugSDA-Model"
}

async def connect(url, transport_type):
    transport = streamablehttp_client(url=url, headers={"SCP-HUB-API-KEY": "<YOUR_SCP_HUB_API_KEY>"})
    read, write, _ = await transport.__aenter__()
    ctx = ClientSession(read, write)
    session = await ctx.__aenter__()
    await session.initialize()
    return session, ctx, transport

def parse(result):
    try:
        if hasattr(result, 'content') and result.content:
            c = result.content[0]
            if hasattr(c, 'text'):
                try: return json.loads(c.text)
                except: return c.text
        return str(result)
    except: return str(result)

async def main():
    # Connect to required servers
    sessions = {}
    sessions["pubchem-server"], _, _ = await connect("https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/8/Origene-PubChem", "streamable-http")
    sessions["server-2"], _, _ = await connect("https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/2/DrugSDA-Tool", "streamable-http")
    sessions["server-3"], _, _ = await connect("https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/3/DrugSDA-Model", "streamable-http")

    # Execute workflow steps
    # Step 1: Search similar compounds in PubChem
    result_1 = await sessions["pubchem-server"].call_tool("search_pubchem_by_smiles", arguments={})
    data_1 = parse(result_1)
    print(f"Step 1 result: {json.dumps(data_1, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:500]}")

    # Step 2: Compute molecular similarity
    result_2 = await sessions["server-2"].call_tool("calculate_smiles_similarity", arguments={})
    data_2 = parse(result_2)
    print(f"Step 2 result: {json.dumps(data_2, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:500]}")

    # Step 3: Filter by drug-likeness
    result_3 = await sessions["server-2"].call_tool("calculate_mol_drug_chemistry", arguments={})
    data_3 = parse(result_3)
    print(f"Step 3 result: {json.dumps(data_3, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:500]}")

    # Step 4: Predict binding affinity
    result_4 = await sessions["server-3"].call_tool("boltz_binding_affinity", arguments={})
    data_4 = parse(result_4)
    print(f"Step 4 result: {json.dumps(data_4, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:500]}")

    # Cleanup
    print("Workflow complete!")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())