PoLi: A Virtual Screening Pipeline Based on Template Pocket and Ligand Similarity

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1757-1770

  Roy, Ambrish ^a   Srinivasan, Bharath ^a   Skolnick, Jeffrey ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BINDERS; MOLECULES; PROTEINS;

BENCHMARK DATABASE; BIOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING FLUORIMETRY; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLDS; PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH;

LIGANDS;

LIGAND; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DOCKING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DRUG DISCOVERY; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84940183247     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00232     Document Type: Article

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