Comparative performance assessment of the conformational model generators omega and catalyst: a large-scale survey on the retrieval of protein-bound ligand …

J Kirchmair, G Wolber, C Laggner… - Journal of chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
In continuation of our studies to evaluate the ability of various conformer generators to
produce bioactive conformations, we present the extension of our work on the analysis of …

Comparative analysis of protein-bound ligand conformations with respect to catalyst's conformational space subsampling algorithms

J Kirchmair, C Laggner, G Wolber… - Journal of chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
We examined the quality of Catalyst's conformational model generation algorithm via a large
scale study based on the crystal structures of a sample of 510 pharmaceutically relevant …

[HTML][HTML] Conformational sampling of small molecules with iCon: performance assessment in comparison with OMEGA

G Poli, T Seidel, T Langer - Frontiers in chemistry, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Herein we present the algorithm and performance assessment of our newly developed
conformer generator iCon that was implemented in LigandScout 4.0. Two data sets of high …

CAESAR: a new conformer generation algorithm based on recursive buildup and local rotational symmetry consideration

J Li, T Ehlers, J Sutter, S Varma-O'Brien… - Journal of chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
A highly efficient conformer search algorithm based on a divide-and-conquer and recursive
conformer build-up approach is presented in this paper. This approach is combined with …

Reproducing the conformations of protein-bound ligands: a critical evaluation of several popular conformational searching tools

J Boström - Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2001 - Springer
Abstract Several programs (Catalyst, Confort, Flo99, MacroModel, and Omega) that are
commonly used to generate conformational ensembles have been tested for their ability to …

Conformer generation with OMEGA: algorithm and validation using high quality structures from the Protein Databank and Cambridge Structural Database

PCD Hawkins, AG Skillman, GL Warren… - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Here, we present the algorithm and validation for OMEGA, a systematic, knowledge-based
conformer generator. The algorithm consists of three phases: assembly of an initial 3D …

ConfGen: a conformational search method for efficient generation of bioactive conformers

KS Watts, P Dalal, RB Murphy… - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
We describe the methodology, parametrization, and application of a conformational search
method, called ConfGen, designed to efficiently generate bioactive conformers. We define …

Freely available conformer generation methods: how good are they?

JP Ebejer, GM Morris, CM Deane - Journal of chemical information …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Conformer generation has important implications in cheminformatics, particularly in
computational drug discovery where the quality of conformer generation software may affect …

BCL:: Conf: improved open-source knowledge-based conformation sampling using the crystallography open database

J Mendenhall, BP Brown, S Kothiwale… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We previously described BCL:: Conf, a knowledge-based conformation sampling algorithm
utilizing a small molecule fragment rotamer library derived from the Cambridge Structural …

[HTML][HTML] BCL::Conf: small molecule conformational sampling using a knowledge based rotamer library

S Kothiwale, JL Mendenhall, J Meiler - Journal of cheminformatics, 2015 - Springer
The interaction of a small molecule with a protein target depends on its ability to adopt a
three-dimensional structure that is complementary. Therefore, complete and rapid prediction …