Computer applications for prediction of protein-protein interactions and rational drug design.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, protein-protein interactions are becoming the object of increasing attention in many different fields, such as structural biology, molecular biology, systems biology, and drug discovery. From a structural biology perspective, it would be desirable to integrate current efforts into the structural proteomics programs. Given that experimental determination of many protein-protein complex structures is highly challenging, and in the context of current high-performance computational capabilities, different computer tools are being developed to help in this task. Among them, computational docking aims to predict the structure of a protein-protein complex starting from the atomic coordinates of its individual components, and in recent years, a growing number of docking approaches

SUBMITTER: Grosdidier S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3169948 | biostudies-literature | 2009

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature