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Niu Huang1, Brian K Shoichet, John J Irwin

  • 1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, QB3 Building, 1700 4th Street, Box 2550, San Francisco, California 94143-2550, USA.

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
|December 13, 2006
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A new directory of useful decoys (DUD) was created for molecular docking. DUD helps reduce bias in docking screens by providing physically similar yet chemically distinct decoy molecules for benchmarking.

Area of Science:

  • Computational chemistry
  • Drug discovery
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • Ligand enrichment is crucial for evaluating molecular docking accuracy.
  • Existing decoy sets may introduce bias by lacking physical similarity to ligands.
  • A robust decoy set is needed for unbiased benchmarking of docking protocols.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a Directory of Useful Decoys (DUD) for molecular docking.
  • To assess and mitigate bias in molecular docking enrichment metrics.
  • To establish a reliable benchmarking set for virtual screening.

Main Methods:

  • Assembled a database of 2950 ligands and 36 physically similar but topologically distinct decoys per ligand, totaling 98,266 compounds.
  • Performed molecular docking calculations using the DUD set across 40 different targets.

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  • Compared enrichment results against uncorrected databases (e.g., MDDR) and conducted 40x40 cross-docking for specificity analysis.

    • Main Results:

    • The DUD set demonstrated reduced bias compared to uncorrected databases, showing lower enrichment values.
    • Enrichment with DUD was significantly better than with biased databases, indicating improved accuracy.
    • Cross-docking analysis provided a specificity metric for evaluating docking screen performance.

    Conclusions:

    • The Directory of Useful Decoys (DUD) effectively reduces bias in molecular docking enrichment.
    • DUD serves as a valuable, freely available resource for benchmarking docking algorithms.
    • This work advances the reliability and specificity assessment of virtual screening methods.