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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2023

ChemFlow─From 2D Chemical Libraries to Protein-Ligand Binding Free Energies.

Diego E Barreto Gomes, Katia Galentino, Marion Sisquellas, Luca Monari, Cédric Bouysset, Marco Cecchini

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. EasyDock 1.3: An Automated Pipeline for Molecular Docking.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  7. ChemFlow_py: a flexible toolkit for docking and rescoring.Journal of computer-aided molecular design · 2023
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  8. EasyDock: customizable and scalable docking tool.Journal of cheminformatics · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Diego E Barreto GomesInstitut de Chimie de Strasbourg, UMR7177, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex 67083, France.
Katia GalentinoInstitut de Chimie de Strasbourg, UMR7177, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex 67083, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6114-4006
Marion SisquellasInstitut de Chimie de Strasbourg, UMR7177, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex 67083, France.
Luca MonariInstitut de Chimie de Strasbourg, UMR7177, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex 67083, France.
Cédric BouyssetInstitut de Chimie de Strasbourg, UMR7177, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex 67083, France.
Marco CecchiniInstitut de Chimie de Strasbourg, UMR7177, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex 67083, France.ORCID 0000-0003-2671-1583

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is a fundamental problem for the rational design of new drug entities. Current computational approaches are either too expensive or inaccurate to be effectively used in virtual high-throughput screening campaigns. In addition, the most sophisticated methods, e.g., those based on configurational sampling by molecular dynamics, require significant pre- and postprocessing to provide a final ranking, which hinders straightforward applications by nonexpert users. We present a novel computational platform named ChemFlow to bridge the gap between 2D chemical libraries and estimated protein-ligand binding affinities. The software is designed to prepare a library of compounds provided in SMILES or SDF format, dock them into the protein binding site, and rescore the poses by simplified free energy calculations. Using a data set of 626 protein-ligand complexes and GPU computing, we demonstrate that ChemFlow provides relative binding free energies with an RMSE < 2 kcal/mol at a rate of 1000 ligands per day on a midsize computer cluster. The software is publicly available at https://github.com/IFMlab/ChemFlow.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationSmall Molecule LibrariesBinding SitesEntropyLigandsProtein BindingThermodynamicsLigandsSmall Molecule Libraries

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PMID36603846
PMCPMC9875305

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