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Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is a critical component of the drug discovery process. In the drug development engineering field, predicting novel drug-target interactions is extremely crucial.However, although existing methods…

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The discovery of drug-target interactions (DTIs) plays a crucial role in pharmaceutical development. The deep learning model achieves more accurate results in DTI prediction due to its ability to extract robust and expressive features from…

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The identification of active binding drugs for target proteins (termed as drug-target interaction prediction) is the key challenge in virtual screening, which plays an essential role in drug discovery. Although recent deep learning-based…

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The accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is important for drug discovery yet remains challenging for multi-domain proteins, where inter-domain dynamics and flexible linkers govern molecular recognition. Current geometric…

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Accurate prediction of drug response in precision medicine requires models that capture how specific chemical substructures interact with cellular pathway states. However, most existing deep learning approaches treat chemical and…

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Accurate and robust prediction of drug-target interactions (DTIs) plays a vital role in drug discovery. Despite extensive efforts have been invested in predicting novel DTIs, existing approaches still suffer from insufficient labeled data…

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Identifying interacting partners from two sets of protein sequences has important applications in computational biology. Interacting partners share similarities across species due to their common evolutionary history, and feature…

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Unlocking the next generation of biotechnology and therapeutic innovation demands overcoming the inherent complexity and resource-intensity of conventional protein engineering methods. Recent GenAI-powered computational techniques often…

To mitigate the potential adverse health effects of simultaneous multi-drug use, including unexpected side effects and interactions, accurately identifying and predicting drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is considered a crucial task in the…

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Deep learning has been widely used for protein engineering. However, it is limited by the lack of sufficient experimental data to train an accurate model for predicting the functional fitness of high-order mutants. Here, we develop SESNet,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-10 Mingchen Li , Liqi Kang , Yi Xiong , Yu Guang Wang , Guisheng Fan , Pan Tan , Liang Hong

Computational drug discovery strategies can be broadly placed in two categories: ligand-based methods which identify novel molecules by similarity with known ligands, and structure-based methods which predict molecules with high-affinity to…

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Prediction of new drug-target interactions is extremely important as it can lead the researchers to find new uses for old drugs and to realize the therapeutic profiles or side effects thereof. However, experimental prediction of drug-target…

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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…

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Prediction of protein-ligand (PL) binding affinity remains the key to drug discovery. Popular approaches in recent years involve graph neural networks (GNNs), which are used to learn the topology and geometry of PL complexes. However, GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Dmitrii Gavrilev , Nurlybek Amangeldiuly , Sergei Ivanov , Evgeny Burnaev

Detecting probable Drug Target Interaction (DTI) is a critical task in drug discovery. Conventional DTI studies are expensive, labor-intensive, and take a lot of time, hence there are significant reasons to construct useful computational…

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Predicting a ligand's bound pose to a target protein is a key component of early-stage computational drug discovery. Recent developments in machine learning methods have focused on improving pose quality at the cost of model runtime. For…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-23 Wojtek Treyde , Seohyun Chris Kim , Nazim Bouatta , Mohammed AlQuraishi

Accurate prediction of drug-target binding affinity accelerates drug discovery by prioritizing compounds for experimental validation. Current methods face three limitations: sequence-based approaches discard spatial geometric constraints,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Junxiao Kong , Chupei Tang , Di Wang , Jixiu Zhai , Yi He , Moyu Tang , Tianchi Lu

Most widely used ligand docking methods assume a rigid protein structure. This leads to problems when the structure of the target protein deforms upon ligand binding. In particular, the ligand's true binding pose is often scored very…

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Drug discovery seeks molecules (ligands) that bind strongly and selectively to a target protein. However, fewer than 5% of candidate ligands pass the bar for even the early stages of drug discovery. Furthermore, we want methods that work…

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