Journal
BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 32, Issue 15, Pages 2289-2296Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw133
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- Israel Science Foundation [1112/12, 1775/12]
- I-CORE program of the Budgeting and Planning Committee
- Hermann Minkowski Minerva Geometry Center
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Motivation: Design of protein-protein interaction (PPI) inhibitors is a major challenge in Structural Bioinformatics. Peptides, especially short ones (5-15 amino acid long), are natural candidates for inhibition of protein-protein complexes due to several attractive features such as high structural compatibility with the protein binding site (mimicking the surface of one of the proteins), small size and the ability to form strong hotspot binding connections with the protein surface. Efficient rational peptide design is still a major challenge in computer aided drug design, due to the huge space of possible sequences, which is exponential in the length of the peptide, and the high flexibility of peptide conformations. Results: In this article we present PinaColada, a novel computational method for the design of peptide inhibitors for protein-protein interactions. We employ a version of the ant colony optimization heuristic, which is used to explore the exponential space (20n) of length n peptide sequences, in combination with our fast robotics motivated PepCrawler algorithm, which explores the conformational space for each candidate sequence. PinaColada is being run in parallel, on a DELL PowerEdge 2.8GHZ computer with 20 cores and 256GB memory, and takes up to 24 h to design a peptide of 5-15 amino acids length. Availability and implementation: An online server available at: http://bioinfo3d.cs.tau.ac.il/PinaColada/.
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