Compression of Molecular Interaction Fields Using Wavelet Thumbnails: Application to Molecular Alignment

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• 作者：Richard L. Martin ; Eleanor J. Gardiner ; Stefan Senger ; Valerie J. Gillet
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：March 26, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：52
• 期：3
• 页码：757-769
• 全文大小：630K
• 年卷期：v.52,no.3(March 26, 2012)
• ISSN：1549-960X

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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鈥揳ctivity 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.