It is widely accepted that protein receptors exist as an ensemble of conformations in solution. How best to incorporate receptor flexibility into virtual screening protocols used for drug discovery remains a significant challenge. Here, stepwise methodologies are described to generate and select relevant protein conformations for virtual screening in the context of the relaxed complex scheme (RCS), to design small molecule libraries for docking, and to perform statistical analyses on the virtual screening results. Methods include equidistant spacing, RMSD-based clustering, and QR factorization protocols for ensemble generation and ROC analysis for ensemble selection.
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Sørensen, J., Demir, Ö., Swift, R. V., Feher, V. A., & Amaro, R. E. (2015). Molecular docking to flexible targets. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.), 1215, 445–469. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1465-4_20
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