Protein binding sites for drug design

J Konc, D Janežič - Biophysical reviews, 2022 - Springer
Drug development is a lengthy and challenging process that can be accelerated at early
stages by new mathematical approaches and modern computers. To address this important …

[PDF][PDF] An improved branch and bound algorithm for the maximum clique problem

J Konc, D Janezic - proteins, 2007 - insilab.org
A new algorithm for finding a maximum clique in an undirected graph is described. An
approximate coloring algorithm has been improved and used to provide bounds to the size …

Binding site comparison for function prediction and pharmaceutical discovery

J Konc, D Janežič - Current opinion in structural biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review the recent advances in binding site comparison approach.•We
examine its use in protein function prediction.•We discuss its uses in pharmaceutical …

Industry applications of neutral-atom quantum computing solving independent set problems

J Wurtz, PLS Lopes, C Gorgulla, N Gemelke… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Architectures for quantum computing based on neutral atoms have risen to prominence as
candidates for both near and long-term applications. These devices are particularly well …

ProBiS-Fold approach for annotation of human structures from the AlphaFold Database with no corresponding structure in the PDB to discover new druggable binding …

J Konc, D Janezic - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
ProBiS (Protein Binding Sites), a local structure-based comparison algorithm, is used in the
new ProBiS-Fold web server to annotate human structures from the AlphaFold database …

LiSiCA: a software for ligand-based virtual screening and its application for the discovery of butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors

S Lešnik, T Štular, B Brus, D Knez… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We developed LiSiCA (ligand similarity using clique algorithm)–ligand-based virtual
screening software that uses a fast maximum clique algorithm to find two-and three …

ProBiS-CHARMMing: web interface for prediction and optimization of ligands in protein binding sites

J Konc, BT Miller, T Štular, S Lesnik, HL Woodcock… - 2015 - ACS Publications
Proteins often exist only as apo structures (unligated) in the Protein Data Bank, with their
corresponding holo structures (with ligands) unavailable. However, apoproteins may not …

Certifying solvers for clique and maximum common (connected) subgraph problems

S Gocht, R McBride, C McCreesh, J Nordström… - … on Principles and …, 2020 - Springer
An algorithm is said to be certifying if it outputs, together with a solution to the problem it
solves, a proof that this solution is correct. We explain how state of the art maximum clique …

Repurposing of drugs for SARS-CoV-2 using inverse docking fingerprints

M Jukič, K Kores, D Janežič, U Bren - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that belongs to
the Coronaviridae family. This group of viruses commonly causes colds but possesses a …

Identification of conserved water sites in protein structures for drug design

M Jukic, J Konc, S Gobec, D Janezic - Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Identification of conserved waters in protein structures is a challenging task with applications
in molecular docking and protein stability prediction. As an alternative to computationally …