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Saturday, March 16, 2024

Chris Williams - Autoph4: Pharmacophore Analysis of Multiple Protein Structures

 

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We are hosting an April BAGIM in-person event with CCG. We welcome Chris Williams with the presentation Database autoph4: Pharmacophore Analysis of Multiple Protein Structures.

Date: April 24, 2024 @ 6:00 PM

Location: Le Meridien Boston Cambridge, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139 (MAP) - We will be in meeting room: Hunsaker Ballroom

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM - Presentation & Q&A
6:45 PM - onward - Reception

Please arrive early to get checked in. CCG is hosting free workshop on the same day (April 24). Please visit their website (HERE) for more information and to sign-up.

More information to be posted.

Host: Chemical Computing Group and BAGIM

Speaker: Chris Williams, PhD, Principal Scientist, Chemical Computing Group

Abstract:

An automated approach to summarize pocket shapes and binding hot-spots from a collection of protein structures is presented. Pocket shapes are described using pocket volumes derived from Alpha Sites and molecular surfaces. Binding hot-spots are located using pharmacophore features generated by AutoPH4. Collections of pocket volumes and pharmacophores are analyzed using feature densities which map onto a universal grid the fraction of structures that possess a given feature at each point in space. Regions with high pharmacophore feature densities identify the most persistent interaction binding hot-spots over the collection of structures. Pocket volume densities detect and classify binding site regions into core pockets and sub-pocket regions. Fingerprints that represent pocket shape, sub-pocket presence and pharmacophore feature presence are derived and used to cluster and classify multiple protein structures using standard fingerprint clustering tools. Application of the method to fragment-based drug design, minor pocket detection, selectivity mapping, binding-mode classification and custom docking scoring function creation is presented.

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Location: Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

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