Proteins play crucial roles in every cellular process by interacting with each other, nucleic acids, metabolites, and other molecules. The resulting assemblies can be very large and intricate and pose challenges to experimental methods.

In the current era of integrative modeling, it is often only by a combination of various experimental techniques and computations that three-dimensional models of those molecular machines can be obtained.

Among the various computational approaches available, molecular docking is often the method of choice when it comes to predicting three-dimensional structures of complexes. Docking can generate particularly accurate models when taking into account the available information on the complex of interest.

We review here the use of experimental and bioinformatics data in protein-protein docking, describing recent software developments and highlighting applications for the modeling of antibody–antigen complexes and membrane protein complexes, and the use of evolutionary and shape information.

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Citation

Charlotte W. van Noort, Rodrigo V. Honorato, Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin (2022):
Information-Driven Modeling of Biomolecular Complexes.
Current Opinion in Structural Biology 70
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2021.05.003

About the author

Stian works in School of Computer Science, at the University of Manchester in Carole Goble‘s eScience Lab as a technical software architect and researcher. In addition to BioExcel, Stian’s involvements include Open PHACTS (pharmacological data warehouse), Common Workflow Language (CWL), Apache Taverna (scientific workflow system), Linked Data and identifiers, research objects (open science) and digital preservation, myExperiment (sharing scientific workflows), provenance (where did things come from and who did it) and annotations (who said what). orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718