From Genome Mining to Protein Engineering: A Structural Bioinformatics Route

Overview

Journal Methods Mol Biol

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2022 Oct 13

PMID 36227540

Authors

Derek J Smith

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Abstract

This chapter outlines applications in genome mining, along with computational methods to predict protein structure and protein-ligand docking. It offers a simple computational route to rapidly identify proteins of interest from genomic and proteomic data, to accurately predict their three-dimensional structures, and to dock small molecules to their binding pockets and strategies to improve their biophysical properties depending on the needs of the experimental researcher.

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