CB-Dock

CB-Dock is a protein-ligand docking method which automatically identifies the binding sites, calculates the center and size, customizes the docking box size according to the query ligands and then perform the molecular docking with AutoDock Vina. Large-scale benchmarks show that the cavity-focused docking can enhance the hit ratio and accuracy of blind docking. Accordingly, CB-Dock can facilitate the docking procedure and improve the accuracy by predicting the binding sites of target proteins using our curvature-based cavity detection approach (CurPocket) and the binding poses of query ligands using AutoDock Vina.

Curvature of protein surface	Cavity detected by clustering	Docking with AutoDock Vina

Publication

Yang Liu, Maximilian Grimm, et al . CB-Dock: a web server for cavity detection-guided protein–ligand blind docking. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2019.

Yang Cao , Lei Li. Improved protein-ligand binding affinity prediction by using a curvature dependent surface area model, . Bioinformatics, 2014.