Despite the advances in the development of docking approaches and scoring functions, the genome-wide application of many ligand docking/screening algorithms is limited by the quality of the binding sites in theoretical receptor models constructed by protein structure prediction.
The development of docking software that is able to accurately predict binding geometry and binding energy represents a great challenge in computational chemistry [68, 71 73].
A broad interest in compound docking brought about a significant progress in the development of docking algorithms with many tools currently available; for instance, AutoDock [31, 34], GOLD [35], Glide [30], rDOCK [36], Surflex-Dock [37], FlexX [38], FRED [39], and DOCK [40].
However, with the development of docking methods it is possible to globally sample the entire conformational space of two interacting proteins, generating all low energy states.
A summary of the hydrogen and the hydrophobic interactions for the top five ligands has been provided (Table 2), which can be potentially exploited as lead molecules for the effective development of docking based targeted drug discovery approaches for T. vaginalis.
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A set of forty-seven Akt1 inhibitors was used for the development of molecular docking based QSAR model by using nonlinear regression.
In the early stages of the development of the docking methods, both the ligand and the receptor were treated rigidly.
These interaction patterns not only provide a comprehensive overview of protein-ligand interactions, but they also may have profound implications for development of molecular docking procedures and in building of binding site prediction methods.
Therefore, continuous development of the docking scoring function will further improve the accuracy of the multi-objective strategy.
