Predicting Protein-Ligand Binding Affinities Using Novel Geometrical Descriptors and Machine-Learning Methods

Inspired by the concept of knowledge-based scoring functions, a new quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) approach is introduced for scoring protein-ligand interactions. This approach considers that the strength of ligand binding is correlated with the nature of specific ligand/binding site atom pairs in a distance-dependent manner. In this technique, atom pair occurrence and distance-dependent atom pair features are used to generate an interaction score. Scoring and pattern recognition results obtained using Kernel PLS (partial least squares) modeling and a genetic algorithm-based feature selection method are discussed.

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