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molBLOCKS: Decomposing small molecule sets and uncovering enriched fragments
Bioinformatics
  • Dario Ghersi, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • Mona Singh, Princeton University
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Article
Publication Date
3-28-2014
Abstract

The chemical structures of biomolecules, whether naturally occurring or synthetic, are composed of functionally important building blocks. Given a set of small molecules—for example, those known to bind a particular protein—computationally decomposing them into chemically meaningful fragments can help elucidate their functional properties, and may be useful for designing novel compounds with similar properties. Here we introduce molBLOCKS, a suite of programs for breaking down sets of small molecules into fragments according to a predefined set of chemical rules, clustering the resulting fragments, and uncovering statistically enriched fragments. Among other applications, our software should be a great aid in large-scale chemical analysis of ligands binding specific targets of interest.

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The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Citation Information
Dario Ghersi and Mona Singh. "molBLOCKS: Decomposing small molecule sets and uncovering enriched fragments" Bioinformatics Vol. 30 Iss. 14 (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dario-ghersi/9/