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ArticleComputational intelligence and neuroscience2015

Clustering molecular dynamics trajectories for optimizing docking experiments.

Renata De Paris, Christian V Quevedo, Duncan D Ruiz, Osmar Norberto de Souza, Rodrigo C Barros

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Renata De ParisGrupo de Pesquisa em Aprendizado de Máquina e Inteligência de Negócio (GPIN), Faculdade de Informática, PUCRS, Prédio 32, Sala 628, 90619-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Christian V QuevedoGrupo de Pesquisa em Aprendizado de Máquina e Inteligência de Negócio (GPIN), Faculdade de Informática, PUCRS, Prédio 32, Sala 628, 90619-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Duncan D RuizGrupo de Pesquisa em Aprendizado de Máquina e Inteligência de Negócio (GPIN), Faculdade de Informática, PUCRS, Prédio 32, Sala 628, 90619-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Osmar Norberto de SouzaLaboratório de Bioinformática, Modelagem e Simulação de Biossistemas (LABIO), Faculdade de Informática, PUCRS, Prédio 32, Sala 602, 90619-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Rodrigo C BarrosGrupo de Pesquisa em Aprendizado de Máquina e Inteligência de Negócio (GPIN), Faculdade de Informática, PUCRS, Prédio 32, Sala 628, 90619-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular dynamics simulations of protein receptors have become an attractive tool for rational drug discovery. However, the high computational cost of employing molecular dynamics trajectories in virtual screening of large repositories threats the feasibility of this task. Computational intelligence techniques have been applied in this context, with the ultimate goal of reducing the overall computational cost so the task can become feasible. Particularly, clustering algorithms have been widely used as a means to reduce the dimensionality of molecular dynamics trajectories. In this paper, we develop a novel methodology for clustering entire trajectories using structural features from the substrate-binding cavity of the receptor in order to optimize docking experiments on a cloud-based environment. The resulting partition was selected based on three clustering validity criteria, and it was further validated by analyzing the interactions between 20 ligands and a fully flexible receptor (FFR) model containing a 20 ns molecular dynamics simulation trajectory. Our proposed methodology shows that taking into account features of the substrate-binding cavity as input for the k-means algorithm is a promising technique for accurately selecting ensembles of representative structures tailored to a specific ligand.

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AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceMolecular Dynamics SimulationCluster AnalysisLigandsProteinsSoftwareLigandsProteins

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PMCPMC4385651

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