Structural Bioinformatics Tools for Drug Design : Extraction of Biologically Relevant Information from Structural Databases

Koča, Jaroslav

Structural Bioinformatics Tools for Drug Design : Extraction of Biologically Relevant Information from Structural Databases by Jaroslav Koca, Radka Svobodová Vareková, Luká Pravda, Karel Berka, Stanislav Geidl, David Sehnal, Michal Otyepka - 1 recurso en línea (XIII, 144 páginas) 62 ilustraciones - SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2211-9353 . - SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology .

1. Introduction -- 2. Biomacromolecular fragments -- 3. Databases -- 4. Detection & Extraction -- a. Biomacromolecular fragments and structural patterns -- b. channels and pores -- 5. Validation -- 6. Characterization -- a. Partial atomic charges -- b. Channel characteristics -- 7. Selected Examples.

A large amount of structural data on biomacromolecules is available and the number of resolved structures is growing rapidly. This implies that we have an increasing opportunity to perform so far unprecedented analyses to obtain crucial biological insight. Biomacromolecular structural fragments such as binding sites or active sites, ligands, channels, pores, secondary structure motifs, etc., become very promising objects for these analyses because such fragments often serve as drug targets or drug templates, or substrate-specific pathways. However, such analyses are very challenging due to their complexity and, consequently, also because they require application of a combination of different software tools. In this book, we describe individual steps necessary for analysis of biomacromolecular fragments and provide a lsit of software tools required to perform such steps. For each step, we also show corresponding web-based tools in detail and provide a few practical examples of their usage.

9783319473888

10.1007/978-3-319-47388-8 doi


Bioinformática
Drogas de diseño

QH324.2 / 2016 EB