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PatchDock and SymmDock: servers for rigid and symmetric docking.

Dina Schneidman-Duhovny1, Yuval Inbar, Ruth Nussinov

  • 1School of Computer Science, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

Nucleic Acids Research
|June 28, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Two new web servers, PatchDock and SymmDock, offer efficient molecular docking for predicting protein-protein, protein-small molecule, and homomultimer structures. These tools enable large-scale computational experiments for structure prediction.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational Biology
  • Structural Bioinformatics
  • Molecular Modeling

Background:

  • Molecular docking is crucial for understanding biological interactions and drug discovery.
  • Predicting complex structures computationally can be challenging and resource-intensive.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce two novel, freely available web servers for molecular docking: PatchDock and SymmDock.
  • To provide efficient tools for predicting protein-protein, protein-small molecule, and homomultimeric protein structures.

Main Methods:

  • PatchDock: Predicts structures of protein-protein and protein-small molecule complexes.
  • SymmDock: Predicts homomultimer structures with cyclic symmetry from monomeric units.
  • Both servers accept PDB codes or uploaded protein structures.

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Main Results:

  • The developed web servers provide efficient solutions for molecular docking tasks.
  • The methods are designed for high throughput, enabling large-scale docking experiments.
  • Freely accessible web services are now available at http://bioinfo3d.cs.tau.ac.il.

Conclusions:

  • The PatchDock and SymmDock web servers offer valuable, efficient resources for structural prediction.
  • These tools can facilitate large-scale computational studies in structural biology and drug design.
  • The accessibility of these servers lowers the barrier for researchers conducting docking experiments.