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Protein-ligand binding is the process by which a small molecule (drug or inhibitor) attaches to a target protein. Binding affinity, which characterizes the strength of biomolecular interactions, is essential for tackling diverse challenges…

Background: One-dimensional protein structures such as secondary structures or contact numbers are useful for three-dimensional structure prediction and helpful for intuitive understanding of the sequence-structure relationship. Accurate…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-07-09 Akira R. Kinjo , Ken Nishikawa

Prediction of ligand binding sites of proteins is a fundamental and important task for understanding the function of proteins and screening potential drugs. Most existing methods require experimentally determined protein holo-structures as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-07 Shuo Zhang , Lei Xie

We propose a specialized string kernel for small bio-molecules, peptides and pseudo-sequences of binding interfaces. The kernel incorporates physico-chemical properties of amino acids and elegantly generalize eight kernels, such as the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-29 Sébastien Giguère , Mario Marchand , François Laviolette , Alexandre Drouin , Jacques Corbeil

CLIP-seq methods are valuable techniques to experimentally determine transcriptome-wide binding sites of RNA-binding proteins. Despite the constant improvement of such techniques (e.g. eCLIP), the results are affected by various types of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-31 Gianluca Corrado , Michael Uhl , Rolf Backofen , Andrea Passerini , Fabrizio Costa

Many computerized methods for RNA-RNA interaction structure prediction have been developed. Recently, $O(N^6)$ time and $O(N^4)$ space dynamic programming algorithms have become available that compute the partition function of RNA-RNA…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-15 Andrew X. Li , Manja Marz , Jing Qin , Christian M. Reidys

Many crucial biological processes rely on networks of protein-protein interactions. Predicting the effect of amino acid mutations on protein-protein binding is vital in protein engineering and therapeutic discovery. However, the scarcity of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-01 Shiwei Liu , Tian Zhu , Milong Ren , Chungong Yu , Dongbo Bu , Haicang Zhang

Binding energy is a fundamental thermodynamic property that governs molecular interactions, playing a crucial role in fields such as healthcare and the natural sciences. It is particularly relevant in drug development, vaccine design, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Erico Souza Teixeira , Lucas Barros Fernandes , Yara Rodrigues Inácio

We present TerraBind, a foundation model for protein-ligand structure and binding affinity prediction that achieves 26-fold faster inference than state-of-the-art methods while improving affinity prediction accuracy by $\sim$20\%. Current…

Accurately measuring protein-RNA binding affinity is crucial in many biological processes and drug design. Previous computational methods for protein-RNA binding affinity prediction rely on either sequence or structure features, unable to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-06 Rong Han , Xiaohong Liu , Tong Pan , Jing Xu , Xiaoyu Wang , Wuyang Lan , Zhenyu Li , Zixuan Wang , Jiangning Song , Guangyu Wang , Ting Chen

This letter gives results on improving protein-ligand binding affinity predictions based on molecular dynamics simulations using machine learning potentials with a hybrid neural network potential and molecular mechanics methodology…

The accurate prediction of protein-RNA binding affinity remains an unsolved problem in structural biology, limiting opportunities in understanding gene regulation and designing RNA-targeting therapeutics. A central obstacle is the…

The binding between proteins and ligands plays a crucial role in the realm of drug discovery. Previous deep learning approaches have shown promising results over traditional computationally intensive methods, but resulting in poor…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-29 Shikun Feng , Minghao Li , Yinjun Jia , Weiying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Proteins perform their functions usually by interacting with other proteins. Predicting which proteins interact is a fundamental problem. Experimental methods are slow, expensive, and have a high rate of error. Many computational methods…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-22 Yiwei Li , Lucian Ilie

We describe Structured Random Binding (SRB), a minimal model of protein-protein interactions rooted in the statistical physics of disordered systems. In this model, nonspecific binding is a generic consequence of the interaction between…

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Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is crucial for rapid and efficient drug development. Recently, the importance of predicting binding affinity has led to increased attention on research that models the three-dimensional…

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Despite recent advances in protein-ligand structure prediction, deep learning methods remain limited in their ability to accurately predict binding affinities, particularly for novel protein targets dissimilar from the training set. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-04 Michael Brocidiacono , James Wellnitz , Konstantin I. Popov , Alexander Tropsha

It has been proven that the accessibility of the target sites has a critical influence for miRNA and siRNA. In this paper, we present a program, rip2.0, not only the energetically most favorable targets site based on the hybrid-probability,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-06 F. W. D. Huang , J. Qin , C. M. Reidys , P. F. Stadler

Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) perform essential roles in biological functions. Although some experimental techniques have been developed to detect PPIs, they suffer from high false positive and high false negative rates. Consequently,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Samaneh Aghajanbaglo , Sobhan Moosavi , Maseud Rahgozar , Amir Rahimi