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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Predicting protein-ligand affinity with a random matrix framework.

Alpha A Lee, Michael P Brenner, Lucy J Colwell

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Using attribution to decode binding mechanism in neural network models for chemistry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  9. Ligand biological activity predicted by cleaning positive and negative chemical correlations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  11. Visualizing convolutional neural network protein-ligand scoring.Journal of molecular graphics & modelling · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alpha A LeeSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; ljc37@cam.ac.uk alphalee@g.harvard.edu.
Michael P BrennerSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Lucy J ColwellDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW, Cambridge, United Kingdom ljc37@cam.ac.uk alphalee@g.harvard.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid determination of whether a candidate compound will bind to a particular target receptor remains a stumbling block in drug discovery. We use an approach inspired by random matrix theory to decompose the known ligand set of a target in terms of orthogonal "signals" of salient chemical features, and distinguish these from the much larger set of ligand chemical features that are not relevant for binding to that particular target receptor. After removing the noise caused by finite sampling, we show that the similarity of an unknown ligand to the remaining, cleaned chemical features is a robust predictor of ligand-target affinity, performing as well or better than any algorithm in the published literature. We interpret our algorithm as deriving a model for the binding energy between a target receptor and the set of known ligands, where the underlying binding energy model is related to the classic Ising model in statistical physics.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyDrug DiscoveryLigandsModels, TheoreticalProtein BindingProteinsLigandsProteinscomputational pharmacologydrug discoveryprotein–ligand affinityrandom matrix theorystatistical physics

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PMID27856761
PMCPMC5137738

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