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Predicting protein-ligand binding affinity remains intractable for multi-domain proteins, where inter-domain dynamics govern molecular recognition. Existing geometric deep learning methods typically treat proteins as monolithic static…

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Understanding and accurately predicting protein-ligand binding affinity are essential in the drug design and discovery process. At present, machine learning-based methodologies are gaining popularity as a means of predicting binding…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-18 Md Masud Rana , Duc Duy Nguyen

This study assesses the efficiency of several popular machine learning approaches in the prediction of molecular binding affinity: CatBoost, Graph Attention Neural Network, and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Oleksandr Gurbych , Maksym Druchok , Dzvenymyra Yarish , Sofiya Garkot

Motivation: Drug discovery demands rapid quantification of compound-protein interaction (CPI). However, there is a lack of methods that can predict compound-protein affinity from sequences alone with high applicability, accuracy, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-17 Mostafa Karimi , Di Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

Although algebraic graph theory based models have been widely applied in physical modeling and molecular studies, they are typically incompetent in the analysis and prediction of biomolecular properties when compared with other quantitative…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-21 Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

The field of drug discovery hinges on the accurate prediction of binding affinity between prospective drug molecules and target proteins, especially when such proteins directly influence disease progression. However, estimating binding…

Protein-ligand interactions are one of the fundamental types of molecular interactions in living systems. Ligands are small molecules that interact with protein molecules at specific regions on their surfaces called binding sites. Tasks…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-11 Arnab Bhadra , Kalidas Y

In this work we present a system based on a Deep Learning approach, by using a Convolutional Neural Network, capable of classifying protein chains of amino acids based on the protein description contained in the Protein Data Bank. Each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Damiano Perri , Marco Simonetti , Andrea Lombardi , Noelia Faginas-Lago , Osvaldo Gervasi

Accurately predicting the binding conformation of small-molecule ligands to protein targets is a critical step in rational drug design. Although recent deep learning-based docking surpasses traditional methods in speed and accuracy, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Liyan Jia , Chuan-Xian Ren , Hong Yan

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…

Recent computational advances in the accurate prediction of protein three-dimensional (3D) structures from amino acid sequences now present a unique opportunity to decipher the interrelationships between proteins. This task entails--but is…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-19 Menuka Jaiswal , Saad Saleem , Yonghyeon Kweon , Eli J Draizen , Stella Veretnik , Cameron Mura , Philip E. Bourne

The discovery of novel drug target (DT) interactions is an important step in the drug development process. The majority of computer techniques for predicting DT interactions have focused on binary classification, with the goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Partho Ghosh , Md. Aynal Haque

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Seungyeon Choi , Sangmin Seo , Sanghyun Park

This study aims to develop a deep learning model for predicting the binding affinity of ligands targeting the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR) family, using 2D molecular descriptors. A dataset of 3,764 small molecules with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-31 La Ode Aman , Aiyi Asnawi

Protein-ligand binding complexes are ubiquitous and essential to life. Protein-ligand binding affinity prediction (PLA) quantifies the binding strength between ligands and proteins, providing crucial insights for discovering and designing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Krinos Li , Xianglu Xiao , Zijun Zhong , Guang Yang

Predicting the ground-state 3D molecular conformations from 2D molecular graphs is critical in computational chemistry due to its profound impact on molecular properties. Deep learning (DL) approaches have recently emerged as promising…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Taewon Kim , Hyunjin Seo , Sungsoo Ahn , Eunho Yang

Predicting how a drug-like molecule binds to a specific protein target is a core problem in drug discovery. An extremely fast computational binding method would enable key applications such as fast virtual screening or drug engineering.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-07 Hannes Stärk , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Lagnajit Pattanaik , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Proteins, essential to biological systems, perform functions intricately linked to their three-dimensional structures. Understanding the relationship between protein structures and their amino acid sequences remains a core challenge in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-04 Liang He , Peiran Jin , Yaosen Min , Shufang Xie , Lijun Wu , Tao Qin , Xiaozhuan Liang , Kaiyuan Gao , Yuliang Jiang , Tie-Yan Liu

Determining the different conformational states of a protein and the transition paths between them is key to fully understanding the relationship between biomolecular structure and function. This can be accomplished by sampling protein…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Venkata K. Ramaswamy , Chris G. Willcocks , Matteo T. Degiacomi

Computational methods that operate on three-dimensional molecular structure have the potential to solve important questions in biology and chemistry. In particular, deep neural networks have gained significant attention, but their…