HYPERDOCK: Improving virtual screening through parallel hyperheuristics

Virtual screening (VS) methods aid clinical research by predicting the interaction of ligands with pharmacological targets. The computational requirements of VS, along with the size of the databases, propitiate the use of high performance computing. METADOCK is a tool for the application of metaheur...

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Autores: Imbernón Tudela, Baldomero, Llanes, Antonio, Cutillas Lozano, José María, Giménez, Domingo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM)
Repositorio:RIUCAM. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ucam.edu:10952/8811
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10952/8811
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Virtual screening
Molecular docking
HPC
Metaheuristics
Hyperheuristics
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Sumario:Virtual screening (VS) methods aid clinical research by predicting the interaction of ligands with pharmacological targets. The computational requirements of VS, along with the size of the databases, propitiate the use of high performance computing. METADOCK is a tool for the application of metaheuristics to VS in heterogeneous clusters of computers based on central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU). HYPERDOCK represents a step forward; the exploration for satisfactory metaheuristics is systematically approached by means of hyperheuristics working on top of the metaheuristic schema of METADOCK. Multiple metaheuristics are explored, so the process is computationally demanding. HYPERDOCK exploits the parallelism of METADOCK and includes parallelism at its own level. The different levels of parallelism can be used to exploit the parallelism offered by computational systems composed of multicore CPU þ multi-GPUs. The efficient exploitation of these systems enables HYPERDOCK to improve ligand–receptor binding.