FlexX is tested on an increasing set of receptor-ligand complexes with known three-dimensional structures taken from the Protein Data Bank. The run time needed for the prediction of a receptor-ligand complex is about 2-3 minutes on a current day workstation.
Complexes we have considered so far and the predictions achieved with
FlexX are listed in the following table (see also
[RKL96]). Three-dimensional structures of the
predicted receptor-ligand complexes are presented as VRML files
(You can activate your VRML-Browser in the way described on our
help-page.).
The color-coding for these graphics is :
green | amino acids of the receptor interacting with the ligand |
red | for the position of the ligand in the X-ray structure |
yellow | predicted position of the ligand |
dashed | interactions between the ligand and the receptor in the predicted position. The color indicates the strength of the interaction (red (strong) -- yellow (medium) -- blue (weak)). |
(runtime in minutes:seconds on a SUN UltraSPARC Workstation; rms given in A, energy given in kJ/mol)
(21. August 1996)