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Automatic clustering of docking poses in virtual screening process using self-organizing map.

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  • 1Laboratoire de Chimie et de Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8601, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France.

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AuPosSOM automatically analyzes drug-protein contacts from docking simulations to identify active compounds. This method effectively discriminates active from inactive molecules without needing chemical structure or binding residue information, improving virtual screening.

Area of Science:

  • Computational chemistry
  • Drug discovery
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • Scoring functions in docking software limit virtual screening (VS) accuracy due to poor estimation of ligand binding energies.
  • Current VS methods struggle to identify all active compounds, necessitating improved classification strategies.
  • Analyzing interatomic contacts between ligands and targets offers a potential way to differentiate active from inactive compounds.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an automated method for analyzing drug-protein contacts to improve virtual screening.
  • To demonstrate that analyzing contact footprints can effectively discriminate active compounds from inactive ones.
  • To introduce AuPosSOM (Automatic analysis of Poses using SOM) as a novel VS tool.

Main Methods:

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  • Utilizing Kohonen self-organizing maps (SOM) for training on drug-protein contact descriptors.
  • Performing unsupervised cluster analysis on docking poses.
  • Generating Newick files for tree-based visualization of results.
  • Automating pose analysis and classification using AuPosSOM.

    • Main Results:

    • AuPosSOM enables rapid and automatic analysis and classification of docking poses.
    • The method successfully discriminates active compounds from inactive ones based solely on mean protein contact footprints.
    • Key binding residues and compound chemical structures are not required for active molecule identification.

    Conclusions:

    • Contact-activity relationships can serve as a new paradigm for virtual screening.
    • AuPosSOM offers an efficient and automated approach to enhance VS processes.
    • The developed method provides a valuable tool for drug discovery and computational chemistry research.