What is bioinformatics? A proposed definition and overview of the field

NM Luscombe, D Greenbaum… - Methods of information …, 2001 - thieme-connect.com
Background: The recent flood of data from genome sequences and functional genomics has
given rise to new field, bioinformatics, which combines elements of biology and computer …

A review of protein-small molecule docking methods

RD Taylor, PJ Jewsbury, JW Essex - Journal of computer-aided molecular …, 2002 - Springer
The binding of small molecule ligands to large protein targets is central to numerous
biological processes. The accurate prediction of the binding modes between the ligand and …

ZDOCK: an initial‐stage protein‐docking algorithm

R Chen, L Li, Z Weng - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The development of scoring functions is of great importance to protein docking. Here we
present a new scoring function for the initial stage of unbound docking. It combines our …

An orientation-dependent hydrogen bonding potential improves prediction of specificity and structure for proteins and protein–protein complexes

T Kortemme, AV Morozov, D Baker - Journal of molecular biology, 2003 - Elsevier
Hydrogen bonding is a key contributor to the specificity of intramolecular and intermolecular
interactions in biological systems. Here, we develop an orientation-dependent hydrogen …

Docking unbound proteins using shape complementarity, desolvation, and electrostatics

R Chen, Z Weng - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
A comprehensive docking study was performed on 27 distinct protein‐protein complexes.
For 13 test systems, docking was performed with the unbound X‐ray structures of both the …

Recent progress and future directions in protein-protein docking

DW Ritchie - Current protein and peptide science, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
This article gives an overview of recent progress in protein-protein docking and it identifies
several directions for future research. Recent results from the CAPRI blind docking …

Residue frequencies and pairing preferences at protein–protein interfaces

F Glaser, DM Steinberg, IA Vakser… - … Structure, Function, and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
We used a nonredundant set of 621 protein–protein interfaces of known high‐resolution
structure to derive residue composition and residue–residue contact preferences. The …

Rational design of faster associating and tighter binding protein complexes

T Selzer, S Albeck, G Schreiber - Nature structural biology, 2000 - nature.com
A protein design strategy was developed to specifically enhance the rate of association (k
on) between a pair of proteins without affecting the rate of dissociation (k off). The method is …

Protein–protein interfaces: analysis of amino acid conservation in homodimers

WSJ Valdar, JM Thornton - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary information derived from the large number of available protein sequences and
structures could powerfully guide both analysis and prediction of protein–protein interfaces …

A novel shape complementarity scoring function for protein‐protein docking

R Chen, Z Weng - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Shape complementarity is the most basic ingredient of the scoring functions for protein‐
protein docking. Most grid‐based docking algorithms use the total number of grid points at …