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Conversely, from a small-molecule point of view, we explore the extent to which structural similarities between small molecules correlate to protein binding profiles.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: The comparison of binding site structural similarities and small-molecule binding profiles shows that proteins with similar small-molecule binding profiles tend to have a higher degree of binding site similarity but the latter is not sufficient to predict small-molecule binding patterns, highlighting the difficulty of predicting small-molecule binding patterns from sequence or structure. Likewise, from a small-molecule perspective, small molecules with similar protein binding profiles tend to be topologically similar but topological similarity is not sufficient to predict their protein binding patterns. These observations have important consequences for function prediction and drug design.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0rafael.najmanovich@ebi.ac.uk<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btl292","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,1,19]],"date-time":"2007-01-19T18:51:12Z","timestamp":1169232672000},"page":"e104-e109","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Analysis of binding site similarity, small-molecule similarity and experimental binding profiles in the human cytosolic sulfotransferase family"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Rafael J.","family":"Najmanovich","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus 1 \u00a0 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK"},{"name":"Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto 2 \u00a0 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"}]},{"given":"Abdellah","family":"Allali-Hassani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto 2 \u00a0 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"}]},{"given":"Richard J.","family":"Morris","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus 1 \u00a0 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK"}]},{"given":"Ludmila","family":"Dombrovsky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto 2 \u00a0 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"}]},{"given":"Patricia W.","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto 3 \u00a0 3 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"}]},{"given":"Masoud","family":"Vedadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto 2 \u00a0 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"}]},{"given":"Alexander N.","family":"Plotnikov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto 2 \u00a0 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"},{"name":"Physiology Department, University of Toronto 4 \u00a0 4 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"}]},{"given":"Aled","family":"Edwards","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto 2 \u00a0 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"},{"name":"Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto 5 \u00a0 5 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"}]},{"given":"Cheryl","family":"Arrowsmith","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto 2 \u00a0 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"},{"name":"Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto 5 \u00a0 5 \u00a0 \u00a0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6"}]},{"given":"Janet M.","family":"Thornton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus 1 \u00a0 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,1,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023041107134042500_","first-page":"699","article-title":"Least-squares fitting of 2 3-D point sets","volume":"9","author":"Arun","year":"1987","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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