PDBe CCDUtils: an RDKit-based toolkit for handling and analysing small molecules in the Protein Data Bank

Abstract While the Protein Data Bank (PDB) contains a wealth of structural information on ligands bound to macromolecules, their analysis can be challenging due to the large amount and diversity of data. Here, we present PDBe CCDUtils, a versatile toolkit for processing and analysing small molecules...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim Roshan Kunnakkattu, Preeti Choudhary, Lukas Pravda, Nurul Nadzirin, Oliver S. Smart, Qi Yuan, Stephen Anyango, Sreenath Nair, Mihaly Varadi, Sameer Velankar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-12-01
Series:Journal of Cheminformatics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-023-00786-w
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Summary:Abstract While the Protein Data Bank (PDB) contains a wealth of structural information on ligands bound to macromolecules, their analysis can be challenging due to the large amount and diversity of data. Here, we present PDBe CCDUtils, a versatile toolkit for processing and analysing small molecules from the PDB in PDBx/mmCIF format. PDBe CCDUtils provides streamlined access to all the metadata for small molecules in the PDB and offers a set of convenient methods to compute various properties using RDKit, such as 2D depictions, 3D conformers, physicochemical properties, scaffolds, common fragments, and cross-references to small molecule databases using UniChem. The toolkit also provides methods for identifying all the covalently attached chemical components in a macromolecular structure and calculating similarity among small molecules. By providing a broad range of functionality, PDBe CCDUtils caters to the needs of researchers in cheminformatics, structural biology, bioinformatics and computational chemistry. Graphical Abstract
ISSN:1758-2946