Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 118, Issue 2, Pages 555-578Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.27618
Keywords
aptasensor; biosensor design; MD simulation; QM calculation; virtual screening
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- Research Council of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad [3/44446]
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Biosensors are widely used in healthcare, food, and environmental fields, and computational design is a promising method to overcome experimental limitations, requiring reliable structure prediction and molecular interaction descriptions.
Biosensors are analytical tools with a great application in healthcare, food quality control, and environmental monitoring. They are of considerable interest to be designed by using cost-effective and efficient approaches. Designing biosensors with improved functionality or application in new target detection has been converted to a fast-growing field of biomedicine and biotechnology branches. Experimental efforts have led to valuable successes in the field of biosensor design; however, some deficiencies restrict their utilization for this purpose. Computational design of biosensors is introduced as a promising key to eliminate the gap. A set of reliable structure prediction of the biosensor segments, their stability, and accurate descriptors of molecular interactions are required to computationally design biosensors. In this review, we provide a comprehensive insight into the progress of computational methods to guide the design and development of biosensors, including molecular dynamics simulation, quantum mechanics calculations, molecular docking, virtual screening, and a combination of them as the hybrid methodologies. By relying on the recent advances in the computational methods, an opportunity emerged for them to be complementary or an alternative to the experimental methods in the field of biosensor design.
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