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2718: SF-1 Round 1

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Intermediate Overall Small Molecule Design

Summary


Created
January 23, 2026
Expires
Max points
100
Description

SF-1 (steroidogenic factor-1) is a nuclear receptor that helps control hormone balance by regulating genes involved in steroid production. Because SF-1 sits at the center of these pathways, adjusting its activity has strong therapeutic potential: SF-1 has been linked to obesity and metabolic dysfunction, plays important roles in reproduction, and is a proposed therapeutic target for endometriosis. SF-1 is also associated with several cancers—including the rare and aggressive adrenocortical carcinoma—making it a compelling but challenging drug target.

Your creativity could help “drug the undruggable.” Build from what’s known, explore bold new possibilities, and design binders that could help become the next generation of SF-1 therapeutics! For more information check out the blog post.

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Comments


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Objectives

Maximum bonus: +9000

Compound Library (max +2000)
Gives a bonus if your current compound is in the library. This uses a local cached version of the Compound Library search results to determine if the compound is in the library. If you manually create a compound that happens to be in the library (or if you load a shared solution with an on-library compound), you may need to submit the compound to the compound library search and wait to get the results back before the objective can properly recognize that the compound is in the library. (If the objective is not updating, try wiggling the structure. See this forum post for more discussion.)

Torsion Quality (max +1000)
Keeps bond rotations in a good range. Using Wiggle or Tweak Ligand can fix bad torsions. (Show highlights torsions to be rotated.)

Number of Rotatable Bonds (max +1000)
Intended to keep the ligand from getting too big and floppy. You can reduce rotatable bonds by deleting groups or forming rings. (Show highlights rotatable bonds.)

Ligand TPSA (max +1000)
Topological Polar Surface Area - Keeps the polar surface area (including buried polar surface) low. To improve, try removing oxygens and nitrogens. (Show highlights atoms contributing to higher TPSA.)

Ligand cLogP (max +1000)
A measure of polarity - Keeps the molecule from getting too hydrophobic. To improve, try adding polar oxygens and nitrogens. (Show highlights atoms contributing to higher cLogP.)

Bad Groups (max +1000)
Gives a bonus for avoiding groups that interfere with assays, which are far from the compounds in the library, or which otherwise have issues. (Show highlights groups at issue.)

Molecular Weight (max +1000)
Keeps the ligand within a reasonable size limit.

Synthetic Accessibility (max +1000)
Keeps the ligand from going too far from the compounds in the library. (Show highlights parts of the molecule at issue.)