Role of computer-aided drug design in modern drug discovery

SJY Macalino, V Gosu, S Hong, S Choi - Archives of pharmacal research, 2015 - Springer
Drug discovery utilizes chemical biology and computational drug design approaches for the
efficient identification and optimization of lead compounds. Chemical biology is mostly …

[HTML][HTML] Open source molecular modeling

S Pirhadi, J Sunseri, DR Koes - Journal of Molecular Graphics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The success of molecular modeling and computational chemistry efforts are, by definition,
dependent on quality software applications. Open source software development provides …

Cryo-EM structure of the human cannabinoid receptor CB2-Gi signaling complex

C Xing, Y Zhuang, TH Xu, Z Feng, XE Zhou, M Chen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Drugs selectively targeting CB2 hold promise for treating neurodegenerative disorders,
inflammation, and pain while avoiding psychotropic side effects mediated by CB1. The …

Improving protein–ligand docking and screening accuracies by incorporating a scoring function correction term

L Zheng, J Meng, K Jiang, H Lan, Z Wang… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Scoring functions are important components in molecular docking for structure-based drug
discovery. Traditional scoring functions, generally empirical-or force field-based, are robust …

Vinardo: A scoring function based on autodock vina improves scoring, docking, and virtual screening

R Quiroga, MA Villarreal - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Autodock Vina is a very popular, and highly cited, open source docking program. Here we
present a scoring function which we call Vinardo (Vina RaDii Optimized). Vinardo is based …

Accelerating autodock vina with gpus

S Tang, R Chen, M Lin, Q Lin, Y Zhu, J Ding, H Hu… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
AutoDock Vina is one of the most popular molecular docking tools. In the latest benchmark
CASF-2016 for comparative assessment of scoring functions, AutoDock Vina won the best …

Large-scale prediction of binding affinity in protein–small ligand complexes: The PRODIGY-LIG web server

A Vangone, J Schaarschmidt, P Koukos, C Geng… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Recently we published PROtein binDIng enerGY (PRODIGY), a web-server for the
prediction of binding affinity in protein–protein complexes. By using a combination of simple …

Vina-GPU 2.0: further accelerating AutoDock Vina and its derivatives with graphics processing units

J Ding, S Tang, Z Mei, L Wang, Q Huang… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Modern drug discovery typically faces large virtual screens from huge compound databases
where multiple docking tools are involved for meeting various real scenes or improving the …

A fully differentiable ligand pose optimization framework guided by deep learning and a traditional scoring function

Z Wang, L Zheng, S Wang, M Lin, Z Wang… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The recently reported machine learning-or deep learning-based scoring functions (SFs)
have shown exciting performance in predicting protein–ligand binding affinities with fruitful …

Virtual screening of approved drugs as potential SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors

A Jimenez-Alberto, RM Ribas-Aparicio… - … biology and chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
The global emergency caused by COVID-19 makes the discovery of drugs capable of
inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 a priority, to reduce the mortality and morbidity of this disease …