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SUBMITTER: Carolan CG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4089483 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography 20140629 Pt 7
A novel procedure for the automatic identification of ligands in macromolecular crystallographic electron-density maps is introduced. It is based on the sparse parameterization of density clusters and the matching of the pseudo-atomic grids thus created to conformationally variant ligands using mathematical descriptors of molecular shape, size and topology. In large-scale tests on experimental data derived from the Protein Data Bank, the procedure could quickly identify the deposited ligand with ...[more]