27 August 2016

2016 polls!

We're heading into election season here in the United States, which reminds us that we haven't run any polls recently at Practical Fragments. How has the community changed in the past few years? To find out, please answer the three questions in the poll on the right-hand side of the page, under "Editors." Also, please note that you need to hit "vote" for each question separately.

The first question asks whether you are in academia or industry and whether you practice FBLD.

The second question asks what methods you use to find fragments. For purposes of this poll please choose all that apply, whether primary or secondary screens. You can read about these methods in the following links.

Affinity chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, or ultrafiltration
BLI (biolayer interfermotry)
Computational screening
Functional screening (high concentration biochemical, FRET, etc.)
ITC (isothermal titration calorimetry)
MS (mass spectrometry)
MST (microscale thermophoresis)
NMR – ligand detected
NMR – protein detected
SPR (surface plasmon resonance)
Thermal shift assay (or DSF)
X-ray crystallography
Other – please specify in comments

The third question asks what metrics (listed below) you use. Again, you can choose multiple answers.

Antibacterial efficiency
BEI (binding efficiency index)
Enthalpic efficiency 
FQ (fit quality)
Fsp3
GE (group efficiency)
LE (ligand efficiency)
LELP (ligand-efficiency-dependent lipophilicity)
LLE or LipE (ligand lipophilic efficiency)
LLEAT
%LE
PEI (percentage efficiency index)
SEI (surface-binding efficiency index)
SILE (size-independent ligand efficiency)
Other
None

Finally, are there other topics you'd like to see polled? Please let us know in the comments.

2 comments:

Anders said...

How about a target poll? How many use FBDD for enzymes, PPIs, GPCRs, etc...also, CNS vs Non-CNS...

Anonymous said...

Is there a typo? I should be MicroScale Thermophoresis (MST) and not MicroScale Electrophoresis, or?