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Entropy-based lamarckian quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization for flexible ligand docking.

Qi You¹, Chao Li¹, Jun Sun¹

¹Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence, Wuxi, Jiangsu, PR China.

Molecular Informatics

|January 31, 2023

Summary

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A new algorithm, entropy-based Lamarckian quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (ELQPSO), improves flexible ligand docking accuracy and efficiency. The EQDOCK program, based on ELQPSO, shows competitive performance, especially for highly flexible ligands.

Keywords:

AutoDock flexible ligand docking local search quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization update strategy

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Area of Science:

Computational chemistry
Molecular modeling
Drug discovery

Background:

AutoDock is a popular open-source software for flexible ligand docking.
Enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of docking algorithms is crucial for drug discovery.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and evaluate a novel hybrid algorithm, ELQPSO, for flexible ligand docking.
To improve upon existing docking methods in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency.

Main Methods:

Developed an entropy-based Lamarckian quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (ELQPSO) algorithm.
Integrated ELQPSO with the Solis and Wet local search (SWLS) method.
Tested the algorithm, named EQDOCK, using the PDBbind core set v.2016.

Main Results:

EQDOCK demonstrated competitive performance in protein-ligand docking.
EQDOCK outperformed Lamarckian genetic algorithm (LGA), Lamarckian particle swarm optimization (LPSO), and Lamarckian QPSO (LQPSO) in finding low RMSD values.
EQDOCK showed particular advantage in solving highly flexible ligand docking problems.

Conclusions:

The proposed ELQPSO algorithm and EQDOCK program offer enhanced accuracy and efficiency for flexible ligand docking.
EQDOCK is a promising tool for computational drug discovery, especially for challenging flexible ligand systems.