MSLDOCK: Multi-Swarm Optimization for Flexible Ligand Docking and Virtual Screening

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 1500-1515
Author(s):  
Chao Li ◽  
Jun Sun ◽  
Vasile Palade
Author(s):  
Xavier Fradera ◽  
Ronald M.A. Knegtel ◽  
Jordi Mestres

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 1541007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus C. K. Ng ◽  
Simon Fong ◽  
Shirley W. I. Siu

Protein–ligand docking is an essential step in modern drug discovery process. The challenge here is to accurately predict and efficiently optimize the position and orientation of ligands in the binding pocket of a target protein. In this paper, we present a new method called PSOVina which combined the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm with the efficient Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shannon (BFGS) local search method adopted in AutoDock Vina to tackle the conformational search problem in docking. Using a diverse data set of 201 protein–ligand complexes from the PDBbind database and a full set of ligands and decoys for four representative targets from the directory of useful decoys (DUD) virtual screening data set, we assessed the docking performance of PSOVina in comparison to the original Vina program. Our results showed that PSOVina achieves a remarkable execution time reduction of 51–60% without compromising the prediction accuracies in the docking and virtual screening experiments. This improvement in time efficiency makes PSOVina a better choice of a docking tool in large-scale protein–ligand docking applications. Our work lays the foundation for the future development of swarm-based algorithms in molecular docking programs. PSOVina is freely available to non-commercial users at http://cbbio.cis.umac.mo .


Author(s):  
Karina S. Machado ◽  
Evelyn K. Schroeder ◽  
Duncan D. Ruiz ◽  
Ana Wink ◽  
Osmar Norberto de Souza

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 667-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina B. Santos ◽  
Isabella A. Guedes ◽  
Ana L. M. Karl ◽  
Laurent E. Dardenne

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sai Lakshmana Vankayala ◽  
Luke Warrensford ◽  
Amanda Pittman ◽  
Joseph Larkin ◽  
Henry Woodcock

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