Rapid flexible docking using a stochastic rotamer library of ligands.

ABSTRACT: Existing flexible docking approaches model the ligand and receptor flexibility either separately or in a loosely coupled manner, which captures the conformational changes inefficiently. Here, we propose a flexible docking approach, MedusaDock, which models both ligand and receptor flexibility simultaneously with sets of discrete rotamers. We developed an algorithm to build the ligand rotamer library "on-the-fly" during docking simulations. MedusaDock benchmarks demonstrate a rapid sampling efficiency and high prediction accuracy in both self- (to the cocrystallized state) and cross-docking (to a state cocrystallized with a different ligand), the latter of which mimics the virtual screening procedure in computational drug discovery. We also perform a virtual screening test of four flexible

SUBMITTER: Ding F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2947618 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature