Computational Graphics Software for Interactive Docking and Visualization of Ligand-Protein Complementarity.

J Chem Inf Model

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6073, United States.

Published: March 2021


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The Dockeye software is designed to complement automated docking protocols by allowing the user's chemical know-how and experience of what makes for good protein-ligand binding, knowledge that is not easily encoded into automated algorithms, to guide the docking. It allows the interactive manipulation of the ligand placement against a protein target. Real-time intuitively comprehensible feedback about the location, spatial density, and the extent of both favorable and unfavorable atomic interactions between ligand and protein is provided through a carefully designed graphical object. It is also a tool for the graphical analysis of the interactions of known protein-ligand complexes. Comparative docking of 58 protein-ligand complexes with Dockeye and Autodock Vina shows how this software can be used synergistically with automated docking programs to significantly improve the task of discovery of ligand placement.

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