Molecular docking: shifting paradigms in drug discovery

L Pinzi, G Rastelli - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking is an established in silico structure-based method widely used in drug
discovery. Docking enables the identification of novel compounds of therapeutic interest …

Key topics in molecular docking for drug design

PHM Torres, ACR Sodero, P Jofily… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking has been widely employed as a fast and inexpensive technique in the
past decades, both in academic and industrial settings. Although this discipline has now had …

An open-source drug discovery platform enables ultra-large virtual screens

C Gorgulla, A Boeszoermenyi, ZF Wang, PD Fischer… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
On average, an approved drug currently costs US $2–3 billion and takes more than 10 years
to develop. In part, this is due to expensive and time-consuming wet-laboratory experiments …

Bioinformatics approaches to discovering food-derived bioactive peptides: Reviews and perspectives

Z Du, J Comer, Y Li - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Food-derived bioactive peptides (FBPs) are gaining interest due to their great potential in
agricultural byproduct valorization and high-activity peptide screening. The introduction of …

Development and benchmarking of open force field 2.0. 0: the Sage small molecule force field

S Boothroyd, PK Behara, OC Madin… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We introduce the Open Force Field (OpenFF) 2.0. 0 small molecule force field for drug-like
molecules, code-named Sage, which builds upon our previous iteration, Parsley. OpenFF …

Repurposing therapeutics for COVID-19: Supercomputer-based docking to the SARS-CoV-2 viral spike protein and viral spike protein-human ACE2 interface

M Smith, JC Smith - 2020 - chemrxiv.org
The novel Wuhan coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been sequenced, and the virus shares
substantial similarity with SARS-CoV. Here, using a computational model of the spike …

Binding affinity via docking: fact and fiction

T Pantsar, A Poso - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
In 1982, Kuntz et al. published an article with the title “A Geometric Approach to
Macromolecule-Ligand Interactions”, where they described a method “to explore …

Protein–ligand docking in the machine-learning era

C Yang, EA Chen, Y Zhang - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking plays a significant role in early-stage drug discovery, from structure-
based virtual screening (VS) to hit-to-lead optimization, and its capability and predictive …

Supercomputer-based ensemble docking drug discovery pipeline with application to COVID-19

A Acharya, R Agarwal, MB Baker… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present a supercomputer-driven pipeline for in silico drug discovery using enhanced
sampling molecular dynamics (MD) and ensemble docking. Ensemble docking makes use …

Benchmarking refined and unrefined AlphaFold2 structures for hit discovery

Y Zhang, M Vass, D Shi, E Abualrous… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The recently developed AlphaFold2 (AF2) algorithm predicts proteins' 3D structures from
amino acid sequences. The open AlphaFold protein structure database covers the complete …