In silico methods and tools for drug discovery

B Shaker, S Ahmad, J Lee, C Jung, D Na - Computers in biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past, conventional drug discovery strategies have been successfully employed to
develop new drugs, but the process from lead identification to clinical trials takes more than …

Coarse-grained protein models and their applications

S Kmiecik, D Gront, M Kolinski, L Wieteska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The traditional computational modeling of protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
remains difficult for many protein systems. It is mostly due to the size of protein …

Folding non-homologous proteins by coupling deep-learning contact maps with I-TASSER assembly simulations

W Zheng, C Zhang, Y Li, R Pearce, EW Bell… - Cell reports methods, 2021 - cell.com
Structure prediction for proteins lacking homologous templates in the Protein Data Bank
(PDB) remains a significant unsolved problem. We developed a protocol, CI-TASSER, to …

GalaxyRefine: Protein structure refinement driven by side-chain repacking

L Heo, H Park, C Seok - Nucleic acids research, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The quality of model structures generated by contemporary protein structure prediction
methods strongly depends on the degree of similarity between the target and available …

Ab initio protein structure assembly using continuous structure fragments and optimized knowledge‐based force field

D Xu, Y Zhang - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ab initio protein folding is one of the major unsolved problems in computational biology
owing to the difficulties in force field design and conformational search. We developed a …

Perspective: Coarse-grained models for biomolecular systems

WG Noid - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
By focusing on essential features, while averaging over less important details, coarse-
grained (CG) models provide significant computational and conceptual advantages with …

Protein structure prediction from sequence variation

DS Marks, TA Hopf, C Sander - Nature biotechnology, 2012 - nature.com
Genomic sequences contain rich evolutionary information about functional constraints on
macromolecules such as proteins. This information can be efficiently mined to detect …

Sixty-five years of the long march in protein secondary structure prediction: the final stretch?

Y Yang, J Gao, J Wang, R Heffernan… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Protein secondary structure prediction began in 1951 when Pauling and Corey predicted
helical and sheet conformations for protein polypeptide backbone even before the first …

Improving fragment-based ab initio protein structure assembly using low-accuracy contact-map predictions

SM Mortuza, W Zheng, C Zhang, Y Li, R Pearce… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sequence-based contact prediction has shown considerable promise in assisting non-
homologous structure modeling, but it often requires many homologous sequences and a …

Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players

F Khatib, F DiMaio, Foldit Contenders Group… - Nature structural & …, 2011 - nature.com
Following the failure of a wide range of attempts to solve the crystal structure of M-PMV
retroviral protease by molecular replacement, we challenged players of the protein folding …