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Structure-based screening and validation of bioactive compounds as Zika virus methyltransferase (MTase) inhibitors through first-principle density functional theory, classical molecular simulation and QM/MM affinity estimation

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A new drug molecule, having strong interactions on the active site of MTase, is suggested for the antiviral drug development against ZIKV infection.
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Recent Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak and association with human diseases such as neurological disorders have raised global health concerns. However, in the absence of an approved anti-ZIKV drug has ge...

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Structure and Function of the Zika Virus Full-Length NS5 Protein

TL;DR: The crystal structures of full-length NS5 and its polymerase domain at 3.0 Å resolution are reported, which will contribute to future studies on ZikV infection and the development of inhibitors of ZIKV replication.
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Ligand Pose and Orientational Sampling in Molecular Docking

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore sampling techniques that eliminate stochastic behavior in DOCK3.6, allowing a focused effort to optimize the code for efficiency, with a threefold increase in the speed of the program.
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Development of vaccines against Zika virus.

TL;DR: This Review examines vaccine development efforts for Zika virus to date and research gaps in the development of candidate vaccines against Zika virus and finds no vaccine, antiviral drug, or other modality available to prevent or treat Zika virus infection.
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Comparison of Global Reactivity Descriptors Calculated Using Various Density Functionals: A QSAR Perspective

TL;DR: The analysis of a series of QSTR equations reveals that computationally economic DFT functionals can be effectively and routinely applied in the development of QSAR/QSPR/QSTR relationships.
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Evaluations of molecular docking programs for virtual screening.

TL;DR: While each docking program has some merit over the other docking programs in some aspects, DOCK showed an unexpectedly better screening performance in the enrichment rates, and several recommendations were made to enhance the screening performances of the docking programs.
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