Irwin "Tack" Kuntz

Tack Kuntz
Born
Irwin Douglas Kuntz
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materPrinceton University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known forDOCK[2]
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Biology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Francisco
ThesisSpectroscopic studies of photosynthesis (1965)
Doctoral studentsPatricia Babbitt[1]
Websitemdi.ucsf.edu/KuntzBio.html

Irwin Douglas "Tack" Kuntz is an important figure in the field of computer-aided drug design and molecular modeling. He is a pioneer in the development and conception of the area of study known as molecular docking. One of the first docking programs DOCK was developed in his group in 1982.[3][4]

  1. ^ Babbit, Patricia Clement (1988). Sequence determination, expression, and site-directed mutagenesis of creatine kinase (PhD thesis). University of California, San Francisco. OCLC 19528718. ProQuest 303714424. (subscription required)
  2. ^ "UCSF DOCK". dock.compbio.ucsf.edu.
  3. ^ Kuntz, ID; Blaney, JM; Oatley, SJ; Langridge, R; Ferrin, TE (1982). "A geometric approach to macromolecule-ligand interactions". Journal of Molecular Biology. 161 (2): 269–88. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(82)90153-X. PMID 7154081.
  4. ^ "The Kuntz Group". dock.compbio.ucsf.edu.