Improvement of protein-ligand binding affinity prediction using machine learning techniques

Autor: Hernandez, Gabriela, Iglesias, Jelisa, Saen-oon, Suwipa
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Popis: Predicting protein-ligand binding affinities constitutes a key computational method in the early stages of the drug discovery process. Molecular docking programs attempt to predict them by using mathematical approximations, namely, scoring functions. In the last years, several scoring functions have been developed, encompassing different terms, from electrostatic forces to protein-ligand interaction fingerprints and beyond. However, it has been noticed that usually each individual scoring function cannot be generalized and its predictive power is arguable. The aim of this study is to improve the binding affinity prediction by finding potential models to combine ten different scoring functions, exploiting machine learning techniques.
Databáze: OpenAIRE