Alberto Gobbi, Matthew Lardy, Sun Hee Kim, Frank Ruebsam, Martin Tran, Stephen E Webber, Alan X Xiang
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Abstract
We present Illuminator, a user-friendly web front end to computational models such as docking and 3D shape similarity calculations. Illuminator was specifically created to allow non-experts to design and submit molecules to computational chemistry programs. As such it provides a simple user interface allowing users to submit jobs starting from a 2D structure. The models provided are pre-optimized by computational chemists for each specific target. We provide an example of how Illuminator was used to prioritize the design of molecular substituents in the Anadys HCV Polymerase (NS5B) project. With 7500 submitted jobs in 1.5 years, Illuminator has allowed project teams at Anadys to accelerate the optimization of novel leads. It has also improved communication between project members and increased demand for computational drug discovery tools.
In Silico BiologyComputer Science-Computational Theory and Mathematics
CiteScore
2.20
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1
期刊介绍：
The considerable "algorithmic complexity" of biological systems requires a huge amount of detailed information for their complete description. Although far from being complete, the overwhelming quantity of small pieces of information gathered for all kind of biological systems at the molecular and cellular level requires computational tools to be adequately stored and interpreted. Interpretation of data means to abstract them as much as allowed to provide a systematic, an integrative view of biology. Most of the presently available scientific journals focus either on accumulating more data from elaborate experimental approaches, or on presenting new algorithms for the interpretation of these data. Both approaches are meritorious.
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