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Existing methods typically rely on manually curated templates or entire active site comparison. Consequently, they perform best when analyzing proteins sharing significant structural similarity with known proteins (i.e. proteins resulting from divergent evolution). These methods fall short when used to characterize the binding profile of a novel active site or one for which a template is not available. In contrast to previous approaches, our method characterizes the binding preferences of sub-cavities within the active site by exploiting a large set of known protein\u2013ligand complexes. The uniqueness of our approach lies not only in the consideration of sub-cavities, but also in the more complete structural representation of these sub-cavities, their parametrization and the method by which they are compared. By only requiring local structural similarity, we are able to leverage previously unused structural information and perform binding inference for proteins that do not share significant structural similarity with known systems.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Our algorithm demonstrates the ability to accurately cluster similar sub-cavities and to predict binding patterns across a diverse set of protein\u2013ligand complexes. When applied to two high-profile drug targets, our algorithm successfully generates a binding profile that is consistent with known inhibitors. The results suggest that our algorithm should be useful in structure-based drug discovery and lead optimization.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0izharw@cs.toronto.edu; lilien@cs.toronto.edu<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp204","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,28]],"date-time":"2009-05-28T15:48:54Z","timestamp":1243525734000},"page":"i296-i304","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Prediction of sub-cavity binding preferences using an adaptive physicochemical structure representation"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Izhar","family":"Wallach","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science, 2Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and 3Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science, 2Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and 3Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ryan H.","family":"Lilien","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science, 2Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and 3Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science, 2Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and 3Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science, 2Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and 3Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013112041067700_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"12325","DOI":"10.1074\/jbc.273.20.12325","article-title":"Molecular recognition of cyclic urea HIV-1 protease inhibitors","volume":"273","author":"Ala","year":"1998","journal-title":"J. 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