BACKGROUND: In the context of drug discovery, drug target interactions (DTIs) can be predicted based on observed topological features of a semantic network across the chemical and biological space. In a semantic network, the types of the nodes and li...
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Mar 9, 2016
The half-life (t1/2) of 58 herbicides were modeled by quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) based molecular structure descriptors. After calculation and the screening of a large number of molecular descriptors, the most relevant those o...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Feb 11, 2016
Transmembrane β-barrels (TMBs) are one important class of membrane proteins that play crucial functions in the cell. Membrane proteins are difficult wet-lab targets of structural biology, which call for accurate computational prediction approaches. H...
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
Jan 27, 2016
Peptides' retention time prediction is gaining increasing popularity in liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)-based proteomics. This is a promising approach for improving successful proteome mapping, useful both in identification ...
Rate constants for reactions of chemical compounds with hydroxyl radical are a key quantity used in evaluating the global warming potential of a substance. Experimental determination of these rate constants is essential, but it can also be difficult ...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Dec 3, 2015
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...
To enable the fast estimation of atom condensed Fukui functions, machine learning algorithms were trained with databases of DFT pre-calculated values for ca. 23,000 atoms in organic molecules. The problem was approached as the ranking of atom types w...
Journal of molecular graphics & modelling
Nov 17, 2015
Anthrax is a highly lethal, acute infectious disease caused by the rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The anthrax toxin lethal factor (LF), a zinc metalloprotease secreted by the bacilli, plays a key role in anthrax pathogenesis ...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Nov 11, 2015
Membrane transport proteins and their substrate specificities play crucial roles in a variety of cellular functions. Identifying the substrate specificities of membrane transport proteins is closely related to the protein-target interaction predictio...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 20, 2015
The α-helical transmembrane proteins constitute 25% of the entire human proteome space and are difficult targets in high-resolution wet-lab structural studies, calling for accurate computational predictors. We present a novel sequence-based method ca...