3D-e-Chem-VM: Structural Cheminformatics Research Infrastructure in a Freely Available Virtual Machine

J Chem Inf Model. 2017 Feb 27;57(2):115-121. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.6b00686. Epub 2017 Feb 14.

Abstract

3D-e-Chem-VM is an open source, freely available Virtual Machine ( http://3d-e-chem.github.io/3D-e-Chem-VM/ ) that integrates cheminformatics and bioinformatics tools for the analysis of protein-ligand interaction data. 3D-e-Chem-VM consists of software libraries, and database and workflow tools that can analyze and combine small molecule and protein structural information in a graphical programming environment. New chemical and biological data analytics tools and workflows have been developed for the efficient exploitation of structural and pharmacological protein-ligand interaction data from proteomewide databases (e.g., ChEMBLdb and PDB), as well as customized information systems focused on, e.g., G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRdb) and protein kinases (KLIFS). The integrated structural cheminformatics research infrastructure compiled in the 3D-e-Chem-VM enables the design of new approaches in virtual ligand screening (Chemdb4VS), ligand-based metabolism prediction (SyGMa), and structure-based protein binding site comparison and bioisosteric replacement for ligand design (KRIPOdb).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Drug Design
  • Informatics / methods*
  • Ligands
  • Protein Kinases / metabolism
  • Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled / metabolism
  • Software
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • Ligands
  • Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
  • Protein Kinases