Creative Biostructure provides custom virtual screening services based on our unparalleled MagHelix™ structural biology platform. Given 3D structure of a protein (by either X-ray crystallography, Electron Microscopy (EM), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) or homology modeling), virtual screening searches for compounds that potentially bind with the target protein. Our MagHelix™ virtual screening services can significantly improve the hit rates and reduce the costs (e.g., labor cost) of compound screening.
Figure 1. Precesses for Virtual Screening
For proteins with solved 3D structures (from both in-house and public sources), Creative Biostructure can perform large-scale virtual High Throughput Screening (HTS) against multiple public and commercial chemical databases. Creative Biostructure also has created own databases on the drug-like properties of different chemical species. Our scientists provide exceptional vitual HTS service with a hit rate ranging from 10% to 20%, which is much higher than normal HTS procedures (generally less than 1%).
Figure 2. New Approaches to Virtual Screening
MagHelix™ Molecular Docking
We supply high-quality MagHelixTM molecular docking service including target analysis and docking-based virtual screening. Target analysis is used to search and identify the active sites of a protein. Virtual screening is then applied to dock compounds/peptides into the active sites of a target protein and search for potential inhibitors.
MagHelix™ Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations
Our scientists offer MagHelixTM MD simulation service for biological macromolecules (e.g., a ligand-receptor complex). With the MD simulation platform, we can, for example, indentify biological functions or study a ligand recognition process, which otherwise could not be experimentally validated.
MagHelix™ Free Energy Calculations
In docking-based drug design, the main aim of molecular simulation is to predict the precise binding affinity. Approaches like our MagHelix™ Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) and Thermodynamic Integration (TI) can be employed to calculate the relative binding free energy between two molecules with good accuracy.
MagHelix™ Pharmacophore Modeling
Creative Biostructure can generate the pharmacophore hypothesis with molecular features and their spatial arrangement, which are required for the molecular recognition of a ligand by its receptor. We can also utilize pharmacophore models to screen virtual compound libraries and identify new ligands.
Creative Biostructure provides full range of services for drug discovery and drug design. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed quote.
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