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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2019

What method to use for protein-protein docking?

Kathryn A Porter, Israel Desta, Dima Kozakov, Sandor Vajda

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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60citing papers in PubMed
12.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. A generic cross-seeding approach to protein crystallization.Journal of applied crystallography · 2025
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  13. Clinicopathological andCurrent medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  15. The Art and Science of Molecular Docking.Annual review of biochemistry · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kathryn A PorterDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Israel DestaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Dima KozakovDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, NY, USA; Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, NY, USA. Electronic address: midas@laufercenter.org.
Sandor VajdaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: vajda@bu.edu.
Boston University · USStony Brook University · US

Funding

Analysis and Prediction of Molecular InteractionsR35GM118078 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI SANDOR VAJDA · 2016 to 2026
$6.5M
Fast energy evaluation for multi-protein systemsR21GM127952 · NIGMS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI KOZAKOV, DMYTRO · 2018 to 2019
$432k
NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM127952NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118078
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A number of well-established servers perform 'free' docking of proteins of known structures. In contrast, template-based docking can start from sequences if structures are available for complexes that are homologous to the target. On the basis of the results of the CAPRI-CASP structure prediction experiments, template-based methods yield more accurate predictions if good templates can be found, but generally fail without such templates. However, free global docking, or focused docking around even poor quality template-based models, can still generate acceptable docked structures in these cases. In accordance with the analysis of a benchmark set, free docking of heterodimers yields acceptable or better predictions in the top 10 models for around 40% of structures. However, it is likely that a combination of template-based and free docking methods can perform better for targets that have template structures available. Another way of improving the reliability of predictions is adding experimental information as restraints, an option built into several docking servers.

Indexed as

Protein ConformationAlgorithmsComputational BiologyDatabases, ProteinModels, MolecularMolecular Docking SimulationProtein Interaction MappingProteinsReproducibility of ResultsSoftwareStructural Homology, ProteinProteins

Identifiers

PMID30711743
PMCPMC6669123
OpenAlexW2912457464

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