The FTMap family of web servers for determining and characterizing ligand-binding hot spots of proteins

Nature Protocols

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 733-755

  Kozakov, Dima ^a   Grove, Laurie E ^b   Hall, David R ^c   Bohnuud, Tanggis ^a   Mottarella, Scott E ^d   Luo, Lingqi ^d   Xia, Bing ^a   Beglov, Dmitri ^a   Vajda, Sandor ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Acpharis Inc   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FTMAP; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGAND BINDING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; INTERNET; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR PROBE; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE;

LIGAND; MOLECULAR PROBE; PROTEIN;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; INTERNET; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR PROBES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84929452807     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.043     Document Type: Article

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