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casf2016

Ligands of CASF-2016

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CASF-2016 is a commonly used benchmark for docking tools. Unfortunately, some of the provided ligand files cannot be loaded using RDKit (version 2022.09.1) but there is an easy remedy.

chemistry

Ligands of CASF-2016

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CASF-2016 is a commonly used benchmark for docking tools. Unfortunately, some of the provided ligand files cannot be loaded using RDKit (version 2022.09.1) but there is an easy remedy.

Bad chemistry in old protein-ligand binding complex data set

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The Astex Diverse set1 is a dataset containing the crystallized poses of 85 protein-ligand complexes. It was introduced in 2007 to address problems in previous datasets such as incorrect ligand representation.

  1. Hartshorn, M. J. et al. Diverse, high-quality test set for the validation of protein−ligand docking performance. J. Med. Chem. 50, 726–741 (2007). 

conformation_generation

Molecular conformation generation with a DL-based force field

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Deep learning (DL) methods in structural modelling are outcompeting force fields because they overcome the two main limitations to force fields methods – the prohibitively large search space for large systems and the limited accuracy of the description of the physics1.

  1. M. Baek and D. Baker, “Deep learning and protein structure modeling,” Nat Methods, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 13–14, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41592-021-01360-8

force_field

Molecular conformation generation with a DL-based force field

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Deep learning (DL) methods in structural modelling are outcompeting force fields because they overcome the two main limitations to force fields methods – the prohibitively large search space for large systems and the limited accuracy of the description of the physics1.

  1. M. Baek and D. Baker, “Deep learning and protein structure modeling,” Nat Methods, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 13–14, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41592-021-01360-8

how_to

Controlling PyMol from afar

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Do you keep downloading .pdb and .sdf files and loading them into PyMol repeatedly?

molecular_dynamics

pymol

Controlling PyMol from afar

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Do you keep downloading .pdb and .sdf files and loading them into PyMol repeatedly?