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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
FTDMP: A Framework for Protein-Protein, Protein-DNA, and Protein-RNA Docking and Scoring
Kliment Olechnovič1,2, Rita Banciul1, Justas Dapkūnas1
1Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Abstract:
FTDMP is a software framework for biomolecular docking and scoring. It can perform docking of subunits containing one or more protein, DNA, or RNA chains, followed by subsequent scoring of the resulting models. FTDMP can also be used for the ranking of user-provided models of biomolecular complexes, generated by any structure prediction method. FTDMP evaluates models according to the consensus-based method VoroIF-jury, which combines individual scores derived from the Voronoi tessellation of biomolecular structures. In addition to the default scoring mode, FTDMP can easily adopt additional scores; thus, it may be used as a tool to assess newly developed scoring functions. FTDMP was evaluated during blind testing in recent CAPRI experiments and using protein-protein, protein-DNA, and protein-RNA docking benchmarks. It proved to be a useful tool for different research tasks, related to modeling biomolecular interactions. The software, cleaned docking benchmarks, and benchmarking results are available at https://bioinformatics.lt/software/ftdmp/.

