Comparar métodos

	Reconstrucción por crio-microscopía electrónica	Acoplamiento molecular
Campo	Bioinformática	Bioinformática
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	1975	1982
Autor original	Joachim Frank	Irwin Kuntz
Tipo	Image reconstruction pipeline	Binding prediction pipeline
Fuente seminal	Frank, J. (2002). Single-particle imaging of macromolecules by cryo-electron microscopy. Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure, 31, 303-319.	Kuntz, I. D., Blaney, J. M., Oatley, S. J., Langridge, R., & Ferrin, T. E. (1982). A geometric approach to macromolecule-ligand interactions. Journal of Molecular Biology, 161(2), 269-288.
Alias	cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-EM, single-particle cryo-EM	protein-ligand docking, binding prediction
Relacionados	3	4
Resumen	Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) determines three-dimensional macromolecular structures at atomic or near-atomic resolution by imaging proteins frozen in vitreous ice. Pioneered by Frank, Henderson, and others, this technique has revolutionized structural biology by enabling visualization of large, non-crystallizable complexes and capturing functional conformational states.	Molecular docking predicts the preferred binding orientation and affinity of a ligand (small molecule) within a protein binding pocket. Pioneered by Kuntz and colleagues in 1982, this computational method searches conformational space to find energetically favorable ligand-protein complexes, enabling rapid screening of chemical libraries for drug discovery.