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Glide: A complete solution for ligand-receptor docking

Glide offers the full spectrum of speed and accuracy from high-throughput virtual screening of millions of compounds to extremely accurate binding mode predictions, providing consistently high enrichment at every level.

The Advantages of Computational Docking

The widespread use of combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening (HTS) in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries means that large numbers of compounds can now routinely be investigated for biological activity. However, screening large chemical libraries remains an expensive and time-consuming process, with significant rates of both false positives and false negatives.

High-speed computational methods can now enrich the fraction of suitable lead candidates in a chemical database, thereby creating the potential to greatly enhance productivity and dramatically reduce drug development costs. With an ever increasing number of drug discovery projects having access to high-resolution crystal structures of their targets, high-performance ligand-receptor docking is the clear computational strategy of choice to augment and accelerate structure-based drug design.

Features

Complete solution:
Glide offers the full range of speed vs. accuracy options, from the HTVS (high-throughput virtual screening) mode for efficiently enriching million compound libraries, to the SP (standard precision) mode for reliably docking tens to hundreds of thousands of ligand with high accuracy, to the XP (extra precision) mode where further elimination of false positives is accomplished by more extensive sampling and advanced scoring, resulting in even higher enrichment.

Virtual screening:
Glide provides a rational workflow for virtual screening from HTVS to SP to XP, enriching the data at every level such that only an order of magnitude fewer compounds need to be studied at the next higher accuracy level.

Accurate binding mode prediction:
Glide reliably finds the correct binding modes for a large set of test cases. It outperforms other docking programs in achieving lower RMS deviations from native co-crystallized structures.

Universal applicability:
Glide exhibits excellent docking accuracy and high enrichment across a diverse range of receptor types.