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A new strain of coronavirus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has not only affected the health of millions of individuals, but also caused severe socio-economic disruption. To curb the spread of the virus, various strategies have been employed to develop new drug therapy. Considering the pandemic condition, targeting the substrate binding site of main protease enzyme of SARS-CoV-2, which plays an important role in replication of the coronavirus, will be beneficial. Its high similarity with its predecessor virus’s main protease and dissimilarity with human protease makes it a promising target and will also facilitate drug repurposing. In this study, we have used Protein Encoded Shape Distributions (PESD) to calculate similarity between the ligand binding site of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease and other proteins. Similarity networks were constructed between these proteins using different distance metrics with edge density |
