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PLD

General information

URL: http://www.mitchell.ch.cam.ac.uk/pld
Full name: The Protein Ligand Database
Description: The Protein Ligand Database (PLD) is a publicly available web-based database that aims to provide further understanding of protein-ligand interactions. The PLD contains biomolecular data including calculated binding energies, Tanimoto ligand similarity scores and protein percentage sequence similarities. The database has potential for application as a tool in molecular design.
Year founded: 2003
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Country/Region: United Kingdom

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Contact information

University/Institution: University of Cambridge
Address: Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
City: Cambridge
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Country/Region: United Kingdom
Contact name (PI/Team): John B. O. Mitchell
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): jbom1@cam.ac.uk

Publications

14512362
L/D Protein Ligand Database (PLD): additional understanding of the nature and specificity of protein-ligand complexes. [PMID: 14512362]
Puvanendrampillai D, Mitchell JB.

SUMMARY: The Protein Ligand Database (PLD) is a publicly available web-based database that aims to provide further understanding of protein-ligand interactions. The PLD contains biomolecular data including calculated binding energies, Tanimoto ligand similarity scores and protein percentage sequence similarities. The database has potential for application as a tool in molecular design.
AVAILABILITY: http://www-mitchell.ch.cam.ac.uk/pld/

Bioinformatics. 2003:19(14) | 69 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-20)

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3238/6895 (53.053%)
Interaction:
604/1194 (49.497%)
3238
Total Rank
68
Citations
3.091
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Created on: 2018-02-09
Curated by:
Mengyu Pan [2018-09-21]
Qi Wang [2018-02-23]
Yang Zhang [2018-02-09]