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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2021

LigTMap: ligand and structure-based target identification and activity prediction for small molecular compounds.

Faraz Shaikh, Hio Kuan Tai, Nirali Desai, Shirley W I Siu

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Faraz ShaikhDepartment of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China.
Hio Kuan TaiDepartment of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China.
Nirali DesaiDepartment of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China.
Shirley W I SiuDepartment of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China. shirleysiu@um.edu.mo.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3695-7758

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Universidade de Macau MYRG2017-00146-FSTUniversidade de Macau MYRG2019-00098-FST
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Abstract

Target prediction is a crucial step in modern drug discovery. However, existing experimental approaches to target prediction are time-consuming and costly. Here, we introduce LigTMap, an online server with a fully automated workflow that can identify protein targets of chemical compounds among 17 classes of therapeutic proteins extracted from the PDBbind database. It combines ligand similarity search with docking and binding similarity analysis to predict putative targets. In the validation experiment of 1251 compounds, targets were successfully predicted for more than 70% of the compounds within the top-10 list. The performance of LigTMap is comparable to the current best servers SwissTargetPrediction and SEA. When testing with our newly compiled compounds from recent literature, we get improved top 10 success rate (66% ours vs. 60% SwissTargetPrediction and 64% SEA) and similar top 1 success rate (45% ours vs. 51% SwissTargetPrediction and 41% SEA). LigTMap directly provides ligand docking structures in PDB format, so that the results are ready for further structural studies in computer-aided drug design and drug repurposing projects. The LigTMap web server is freely accessible at https://cbbio.online/LigTMap . The source code is released on GitHub ( https://github.com/ShirleyWISiu/LigTMap ) under the BSD 3-Clause License to encourage re-use and further developments.

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Binding affinity predictionBinding interaction fingerprintDrug repurposingFingerprint similarityInverse dockingPSOVinaRandom forestTarget prediction

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PMID34112240
PMCPMC8194164

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