The good, the bad and the dubious: VHELIBS, a validation helper for ligands and binding sites

Journal of Cheminformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Cereto Massagué, Adrià ^a   Ojeda, María José ^a   Joosten, Robbie P ^b   Valls, Cristina ^a   Mulero, Miquel ^a   Salvado, M Josepa ^a   Arola Arnal, Anna ^a   Arola, Lluís ^a,c   Garcia Vallvé, Santiago ^a,c   Pujadas, Gerard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c Faculty of Economics and Business Studies   (Spain)

Author keywords

Binding site structure validation; Electron density map; Ligand structure validation; PDB; PDB REDO; Protein structure validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882309921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2946-5-36     Document Type: Article

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