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Review
. 2019;20(5):501-521.
doi: 10.2174/1389450119666181022153016.

Molecular Docking: Challenges, Advances and its Use in Drug Discovery Perspective

Surovi Saikia  1 , Manobjyoti Bordoloi  1
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Review

Molecular Docking: Challenges, Advances and its Use in Drug Discovery Perspective

Surovi Saikia et al. Curr Drug Targets. 2019.

Abstract

Molecular docking is a process through which small molecules are docked into the macromolecular structures for scoring its complementary values at the binding sites. It is a vibrant research area with dynamic utility in structure-based drug-designing, lead optimization, biochemical pathway and for drug designing being the most attractive tools. Two pillars for a successful docking experiment are correct pose and affinity prediction. Each program has its own advantages and drawbacks with respect to their docking accuracy, ranking accuracy and time consumption so a general conclusion cannot be drawn. Moreover, users don't always consider sufficient diversity in their test sets which results in certain programs to outperform others. In this review, the prime focus has been laid on the challenges of docking and troubleshooters in existing programs, underlying algorithmic background of docking, preferences regarding the use of docking programs for best results illustrated with examples, comparison of performance for existing tools and algorithms, state of art in docking, recent trends of diseases and current drug industries, evidence from clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance are discussed. These aspects of the molecular drug designing paradigm are quite controversial and challenging and this review would be an asset to the bioinformatics and drug designing communities.

Keywords: Molecular docking; algorithms; drug designing; molecular dynamics; pharmacophore; scoring functions..

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