18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 6
Evolutionary Algorithms for Conformational Analysis: Vitamine E Case Study
Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 26-April 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2132-0
In this paper a new genetic algorithm for conformational analysis, field of pharmacy related to discovery and design of new drugs, is proposed. The objective is to find the optimal spatial configuration of a molecule, which corresponds to finding its energy minimum by rotation of torsion angles. Different evolutionary mechanisms have been studied and experimentally evaluated in order to fine-tune our algorithm. Finally the proposed solution is successfully applied to Vitamine E.
Index Terms:
genetic algorithms, evolutionary algorithms, conformational analysis, drug design, pharmacy
Citation:
Aleksander Wawer, Franciszek Seredyński, Pascal Bouvry, "Evolutionary Algorithms for Conformational Analysis: Vitamine E Case Study," ipdps, vol. 7, pp.164b, 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 6, 2004