University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications
UMMS Affiliation
Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology
Publication Date
2-21-2013
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Bioinformatics | Computational Biology | Structural Biology
Abstract
We present a two-stage hybrid-resolution approach for rigid-body protein-protein docking. The first stage is carried out at low-resolution (15 degrees ) angular sampling. In the second stage, we sample promising regions from the first stage at a higher resolution of 6 degrees . The hybrid-resolution approach produces the same results as a 6 degrees uniform sampling docking run, but uses only 17% of the computational time. We also show that the angular distance can be used successfully in clustering and pruning algorithms, as well as the characterization of energy funnels. Traditionally the root-mean-square-distance is used in these algorithms, but the evaluation is computationally expensive as it depends on both the rotational and translational parameters of the docking solutions. In contrast, the angular distances only depend on the rotational parameters, which are generally fixed for all docking runs. Hence the angular distances can be pre-computed, and do not add computational time to the post-processing of rigid-body docking results.
Rights and Permissions
Copyright: 2013 Vreven et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
DOI of Published Version
10.1371/journal.pone.0056645
Source
PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e56645. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056645. Epub 2013 Feb 21. Link to article on publisher's site
Related Resources
Journal/Book/Conference Title
PloS one
PubMed ID
23437194
Repository Citation
Vreven, Thom; Hwang, Howook; and Weng, Zhiping, "Exploring angular distance in protein-protein docking algorithms" (2013). University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications. 250.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/250