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PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 65, Issue 3, Pages 549-554Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21183
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virtual screening; drug discovery; docking; AutoDock; chemical database; automation
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A major problem in virtual screening concerns the accuracy of the binding free energy between a target protein and a putative ligand. Here we report an example supporting the outperformance of the AutoDock scoring firnction in virtual screening in comparison to the other popular docking programs. The original AutoDock program is in itself inefficient to be used in virtual screening because the grids of interaction energy have to be calculated for each putative ligand in chemical database. However, the automation of the AutoDock program with the potential grids defined in common for all putative ligands leads to more than twofold increase in the speed of virtual database screening. The utility of the automated AutoDock in virtual screening is further demonstrated by identifying the actual inhibitors of various target enzymes in chemical databases with accuracy higher than the other docking tools including DOCK and F'IexY- These results exemplify the usefulness of the automated AutoDock as a new promising tool in structure-based virtual screening.
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