Comparison of Topological, Shape, and Docking Methods in Virtual Screening

Georgia B. McGaughey,* Robert P. Sheridan, Christopher I. Bayly,§ J. Chris Culberson, Constantine Kreatsoulas, Stacey Lindsley, Vladimir Maiorov, Jean-Francois Truchon,§ and Wendy D. Cornell
Department of Molecular Systems, WP53F-301, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, Department of Molecular Systems, RY50SW-100, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey 07065, and Medicinal Chemistry, Merck Frosst, Canada H9H 3L1
J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2007, 47 (4), pp 1504–1519
DOI: 10.1021/ci700052x
Publication Date (Web): June 26, 2007
Copyright © 2007 American Chemical Society

Abstract

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Virtual screening benchmarking studies were carried out on 11 targets to evaluate the performance of three commonly used approaches:  2D ligand similarity (Daylight, TOPOSIM), 3D ligand similarity (SQW, ROCS), and protein structure-based docking (FLOG, FRED, Glide). Active and decoy compound sets were assembled from both the MDDR and the Merck compound databases. Averaged over multiple targets, ligand-based methods outperformed docking algorithms. This was true for 3D ligand-based methods only when chemical typing was included. Using mean enrichment factor as a performance metric, Glide appears to be the best docking method among the three with FRED a close second. Results for all virtual screening methods are database dependent and can vary greatly for particular targets.

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  • Received February 7, 2007

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