PyBindingCurve

Shave, Steven, et al. "PyBindingCurve, simulation, and curve fitting to complex binding systems at equilibrium." Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00216

PyBindingCurve is a Python package for simulation, plotting and fitting of experimental parameters to protein-ligand binding systems at equilibrium. In simple terms, the most basic functionality allows simulation of a two species binding to each other as a function of their concentrations and the dissociation constant (K_D) between the two species. A number of systems are built in and can be solved using direct analytical, kinetic, or Langrange multiplier based techniques. User-defined custom systems can also be specified using a simple syntax.

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Installation

PyBindingCurve may be installed from source present in the GitHub repository https://github.com/stevenshave/pybindingcurve via git pull, or from the Python Package Index (https://pypi.org/project/pybindingcurve/) using the command :

pip install pybindingcurve

Requirements

PyBindingCurve requires Python 3.9 or later. The following packages are also required

• numpy>=1.26
• matplotlib>=3.8
• lmfit>=1.2.2
• mpmath>=1.3.0
• autograd>=1.6.2

License

MIT License

Usage

A tutorial and API documentation can be found here

A quickstart example for simulation of protein-ligand binding is as follows:

import numpy as np
import pybindingcurve as pbc
my_system = pbc.BindingCurve("1:1")
system_parameters = {"p": np.linspace(0, 20), "l": 10, "kdpl": 1}
my_system.add_curve(system_parameters)
my_system.show_plot()

Tests written using the pytest framework may be run with 'pytest' (ensure pytest is installed in your python environment, or pip install it)

Authors

PyBindingCurve was written by Steven Shave

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