A new protein binding pocket similarity measure based on comparison of clouds of atoms in 3D: application to ligand prediction

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Predicting which molecules can bind to a given binding site of a protein with known 3D structure is important to decipher the protein function, and useful in drug design. A classical assumption in structural biology is that proteins...

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Main Authors: Zaslavskiy Mikhail, Hoffmann Brice, Vert Jean-Philippe, Stoven Véronique
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-02-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/99