“…The optimization process often leads to an increase in the binding energy with the target protein, and/or an improvement in the ADMET properties. This process requires structural modifications which improve the functionality of a molecule (Jorgensen, 2009;Maynard et al, 2016;Qiao et al, 2018;Stevens, 2014). The ADMETopt webtool (Yang et al, 2018) was used for the optimization of the three selected compounds based on the ADMET properties to improve the drug-likeness.…”