Title
Compression of Molecular Interaction Fields Using Wavelet Thumbnails: Application to Molecular Alignment.
Abstract
Molecular interaction fields provide a useful description of ligand binding propensity and have found widespread use in computer-aided drug design, for example, to characterize protein binding sites and in small molecular applications, such as three-dimensional quantitative structure activity relationships, physicochemical property prediction, and virtual screening. However, the grids on which the field data are stored are typically very large, consisting of thousands of data points, which make them cumbersome to store and manipulate. The wavelet transform is a commonly used data compression technique, for example, in signal processing and image compression. Here we use the wavelet transform to encode molecular interaction fields as wavelet thumbnails, which represent the original grid data in significantly reduced volumes. We describe a method for aligning wavelet thumbnails based on extracting extrema from the thumbnails and subsequently use them for virtual screening. We demonstrate that wavelet thumbnails provide an effective method of capturing the three-dimensional information encoded in a molecular interaction field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1021/ci200348h
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
52
3
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1549-9596
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Richard L. Martin132.94
Eleanor J. Gardiner224216.41
Stefan Senger3132.71
Valerie J. Gillet465887.23