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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2021

BCL::Conf: Improved Open-Source Knowledge-Based Conformation Sampling Using the Crystallography Open Database.

Jeffrey Mendenhall, Benjamin P Brown, Sandeepkumar Kothiwale, Jens Meiler

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Jeffrey MendenhallDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 United States.
Benjamin P BrownChemical and Physical Biology Program, Medical Scientist Training Program, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5296-087X
Sandeepkumar KothiwaleDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 United States.
Jens MeilerDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 United States.

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007347 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER S. · 1985 to 2023
$26.3M
Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM152284 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Christopher S. Williams · 2024 to 2026
$4.8M
Membrane Protein Structure Elucidation from sparse NMR data (KAMP)R01GM080403 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MEILER, JENS · 2007 to 2019
$3.0M
Structural Determinants of Allosteric Modulation of Brain GPCRsR01DA046138 · NIDA · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MEILER, JENS · 2019 to 2023
$2.0M
Cheminformatics of Allosteric mGluR Modulation promotes Therapeutic DevelopmentR01MH090192 · NIMH · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MEILER, JENS · 2010 to 2013
$1.5M
Computational Design of Protein-Ligand Interfaces - a Therapeutic StrategyR01GM099842 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MEILER, JENS · 2012 to 2015
$1.3M
Small Molecule Probes to Investigate Structure and Function of Y ReceptorsR01DK097376 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MEILER, JENS, WEAVER, C DAVID · 2013 to 2015
$1.0M
Targeting receptor tyrosine kinases with novel methods in computer-aided drug discovery for the treatment of fibrotic renal diseaseF30DK118774 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI BROWN, BENJAMIN PATRICK · 2018 to 2021
$162k
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA046138NIDDK NIH HHS F30 DK118774NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK097376NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM080403NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099842NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007347NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM152284NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH090192
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We previously described BCL::Conf, a knowledge-based conformation sampling algorithm utilizing a small molecule fragment rotamer library derived from the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD, license required), as a component of the BioChemical Library (BCL) cheminformatics toolkit. This paper describes substantial improvements made to the BCL::Conf algorithm and a transition to a rotamer library derived from molecules in the Crystallography Open Database (COD, no license required). We demonstrate the performance of the new BCL::Conf on native conformer recovery in the Platinum dataset of high-quality protein-ligand complexes. This set of 2859 structures has previously been used to assess the performance of over a dozen conformer generation algorithms, including the Conformator, Balloon, RDKit DG, ETKDG, Confab, Frog2, MultiConf-DOCK, CSD conformer generator, ConfGenX-OPSL3 force field, Omega, excalc, iCon, and MOE. These benchmarks suggest that the CSD conformer generator is at the state of the art of reported conformer generators. Our results indicate that the improved BCL::Conf significantly outperforms the CSD conformer generation algorithm at binding conformer recovery across a range of ensemble sizes and with similarly fast rates of conformer generation. BCL::Conf is now distributed with the COD-derived rotamer library and is free for academic use. The BCL can be downloaded at http://meilerlab.org/bclcommons for Windows, Linux, or Apple operating systems. BCL::Conf can now also be accessed via webserver at http://meilerlab.org/bclconf.

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AlgorithmsSoftwareCrystallographyLigandsMolecular ConformationLigands

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PMID33351632
PMCPMC8130828

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