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During the course of the docking process, the ligand and the protein adjust their conformation to achieve an overall "best-fit" and this kind of conformational adjustment resulting in the overall binding is referred to as "induced-fit". [5] Molecular docking research focuses on computationally simulating the molecular recognition process.
However, the new scoring functions to evaluate molecular dynamics and protein-ligand docking potential are implementing supervised molecular dynamic [3] approach. Essentially, the simulations are sequences of small time windows by which the distance between the center of mass of the ligand and protein is computed.
Macromolecular docking is the computational modelling of the quaternary structure of complexes formed by two or more interacting biological macromolecules. Protein–protein complexes are the most commonly attempted targets of such modelling, followed by protein–nucleic acid complexes.
In molecular modelling, docking is a method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to another when bound together in a stable complex. In the case of protein docking , the search space consists of all possible orientations of the protein with respect to the ligand .
Preparing for molecular docking studies can involve many steps. When docking proteins, proteins are obtained from the Protein Data Bank (PDB), which is an online, open access resources containing the classification, structure/folding, organism, sequence length, mutations, genome, sequence, and other data relating to proteins. [11]
Representation of docking a ligand (green) to a protein target (black). Molecular docking (also referred to only as docking) is a method used to predict the orientation coordinates of a molecule when bound to another one (receptor or target). The binding may be mostly through non-covalent interactions while covalently linked binding can also be ...
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Structure-based virtual screening approach includes different computational techniques that consider the structure of the receptor that is the molecular target of the investigated active ligands. Some of these techniques include molecular docking, structure-based pharmacophore prediction, and molecular dynamics simulations.