A Sequence-Based Dynamic Ensemble Learning System for Protein Ligand-Binding Site Prediction.

Journal: IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Proteins have the fundamental ability to selectively bind to other molecules and perform specific functions through such interactions, such as protein-ligand binding. Accurate prediction of protein residues that physically bind to ligands is important for drug design and protein docking studies. Most of the successful protein-ligand binding predictions were based on known structures. However, structural information is not largely available in practice due to the huge gap between the number of known protein sequences and that of experimentally solved structures.

Authors

  • Peng Chen
  • ShanShan Hu
  • Jun Zhang
    First School of Clinical Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China.
  • Xin Gao
    Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
  • Jinyan Li
  • Junfeng Xia
  • Bing Wang
    Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut.