OBTAINING AN IMPROVED THERAPEUTIC LIGAND

    公开(公告)号:CA2914726A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-18

    申请号:CA2914726

    申请日:2014-06-13

    Abstract: Methods and associated apparatus involving designing a ligand ab initio that will bind to a binding site of a macromolecular target, or of identifying a modification to a ligand for improving the affinity of the ligand to a binding site of a macromolecular target, comprising using information about non-bonding, intra-molecular or inter-molecular atom to atom contacts extracted from a database of biological macromolecules to identify favoured regions adjacent to the binding site for particular atom types and modifying a candidate ligand to increase the intersection between atoms of the candidate ligand and the favoured regions. One or more steps of the methods may be performed by a computer.

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