Molecular recognition and docking algorithms

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 32, Issue , 2003, Pages 335-373

  Brooijmans, Natasja ^a   Kuntz, Irwin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Scoring functions; Search algorithms; Structure based drug design; Thermodynamics of binding; Virtual screening

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA BASE; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DRUG DESIGN; LIGANDS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTION; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0042353897     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.32.110601.142532     Document Type: Review

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