Specificity normalization for identifying selective inhibitors in virtual screening Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The enrichment and recall of known inhibitors in a virtual screen are correlated with the probability of finding effective inhibitors through this process. In practice, a large number of false positives are ranked higher than known inhibitors in many virtual screen results. In this paper, we use the interaction of known inhibitors across a range of decoy active sites in order to formulate a modified ranking score, Rscore. This ranking scheme seeks to normalize the DOCK score of a compound based on its interaction with decoy active sites, and uses a linear programming formulation to optimize Rscore for inhibitors versus non-inhibitors. We show an increase in recall of known inhibitors by greater than 20% in most of the test cases considered.

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP 2008

author list (cited authors)

  • Pai, R., Sacchettini, J. C., & Ioerger, T. R.

complete list of authors

  • Pai, R||Sacchettini, JC||Ioerger, TR

editor list (cited editors)

  • Arabnia, H. R., Yang, M. Q., & Yang, J. Y.

publication date

  • December 2008