Molecular similarity: a key technique in molecular informatics

A Bender, RC Glen - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2004 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular Informatics utilises many ideas and concepts to find relationships between
molecules. The concept of similarity, where molecules may be grouped according to their …

Towards the development of universal, fast and highly accurate docking/scoring methods: a long way to go

N Moitessier, P Englebienne, D Lee… - British journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerating the drug discovery process requires predictive computational protocols
capable of reducing or simplifying the synthetic and/or combinatorial challenge. Docking …

Sanjeevini: a freely accessible web-server for target directed lead molecule discovery

B Jayaram, T Singh, G Mukherjee, A Mathur… - BMC …, 2012 - Springer
Background Computational methods utilizing the structural and functional information help
to understand specific molecular recognition events between the target biomolecule and …

Molecular mechanics methods for predicting protein–ligand binding

N Huang, C Kalyanaraman, K Bernacki… - Physical Chemistry …, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
Ligand binding affinity prediction is one of the most important applications of computational
chemistry. However, accurately ranking compounds with respect to their estimated binding …

AADS - An Automated Active Site Identification, Docking, and Scoring Protocol for Protein Targets Based on Physicochemical Descriptors

T Singh, D Biswas, B Jayaram - Journal of chemical information …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We report here a robust automated active site detection, docking, and scoring (AADS)
protocol for proteins with known structures. The active site finder identifies all cavities in a …

The predicted 3D structure of the human D2 dopamine receptor and the binding site and binding affinities for agonists and antagonists

MYS Kalani, N Vaidehi, SE Hall… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Dopamine neurotransmitter and its receptors play a critical role in the cell signaling process
responsible for information transfer in neurons functioning in the nervous system …

Physics-based scoring of protein− ligand complexes: Enrichment of known inhibitors in large-scale virtual screening

N Huang, C Kalyanaraman, JJ Irwin… - Journal of Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that using an all-atom molecular mechanics force field combined with an
implicit solvent model for scoring protein− ligand complexes is a promising approach for …

Ligand− protein docking with water molecules

BC Roberts, RL Mancera - Journal of chemical information and …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The presence of water molecules plays an important role in the accuracy of ligand− protein
docking predictions. Comprehensive docking simulations have been performed on a large …

MS-DOCK: accurate multiple conformation generator and rigid docking protocol for multi-step virtual ligand screening

N Sauton, D Lagorce, BO Villoutreix, MA Miteva - BMC bioinformatics, 2008 - Springer
Background The number of protein targets with a known or predicted tri-dimensional
structure and of drug-like chemical compounds is growing rapidly and so is the need for new …

Catalytic site prediction and virtual screening of cytochrome P450 2D6 substrates by consideration of water and rescoring in automated docking

C De Graaf, C Oostenbrink, PHJ Keizers… - Journal of medicinal …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Automated docking strategies successfully applied to binding mode predictions of ligands in
Cyt P450 crystal structures in an earlier study (de Graaf et al. J. Med. Chem. 2005, 7, 2308 …