Abstract: The present invention relates, in part, to treatment of various diseases and disorders such as GI disorders through modulation of F420-dependent enzymes including specific enzymes involved in methanogenesis.

Abstract: Specialized apparatus and methods may be used for identifying, representing, and productively using high activity regions of chemical structure space. At least two representations of chemical structure space provide valuable information. A first representation has many dimensions representing members of a pharmacophore basis set and one or more additional dimensions representing defined chemical activity (e.g., pharmacological activity). A second representation has many fewer dimensions, each of which represents a principle component obtained by transforming the first representation via principal component analysis used on pharmacophore fingerprint/activity data for a collection of compounds. When the collection of compounds has the defined chemical activity, that activity will be reflected as a “high activity” region of chemical space in the second representation.

Abstract: Specialized apparatus and methods may be used for identifying, representing, and productively using high activity regions of chemical structure space. At least two representations of chemical structure space provide valuable information. A first representation has many dimensions representing members of a pharmacophore basis set and one or more additional dimensions representing defined chemical activity (e.g., pharmacological activity). A second representation has many fewer dimensions, each of which represents a principle component obtained by transforming the first representation via principal component analysis used on pharmacophore fingerprint/activity data for a collection of compounds. When the collection of compounds has the defined chemical activity, that activity will be reflected as a “high activity” region of chemical space in the second representation.