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Motivation: Prediction of the interaction affinity between proteins and compounds is a major challenge in the drug discovery process. WideDTA is a deep-learning based prediction model that employs chemical and biological textual sequence…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-13 Hakime Öztürk , Elif Ozkirimli , Arzucan Özgür

One key task in virtual screening is to accurately predict the binding affinity ($\triangle$$G$) of protein-ligand complexes. Recently, deep learning (DL) has significantly increased the predicting accuracy of scoring functions due to the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-28 Zechen Wang , Liangzhen Zheng , Yang Liu , Yuanyuan Qu , Yong-Qiang Li , Mingwen Zhao , Yuguang Mu , Weifeng Li

Computational approaches to drug discovery can reduce the time and cost associated with experimental assays and enable the screening of novel chemotypes. Structure-based drug design methods rely on scoring functions to rank and predict…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Matthew Ragoza , Joshua Hochuli , Elisa Idrobo , Jocelyn Sunseri , David Ryan Koes

The binding complexes formed by proteins and small molecule ligands are ubiquitous and critical to life. Despite recent advancements in protein structure prediction, existing algorithms are so far unable to systematically predict the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-21 Zhuoran Qiao , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Thomas F. Miller , Anima Anandkumar

Efficient and effective drug-target binding affinity (DTBA) prediction is a challenging task due to the limited computational resources in practical applications and is a crucial basis for drug screening. Inspired by the good representation…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-15 Shuke Zhang , Yanzhao Jin , Tianmeng Liu , Qi Wang , Zhaohui Zhang , Shuliang Zhao , Bo Shan

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…

Currently, the field of structure-based drug design is dominated by three main types of algorithms: search-based algorithms, deep generative models, and reinforcement learning. While existing works have typically focused on comparing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Kangyu Zheng , Kai Zhang , Jiale Tan , Xuehan Chen , Yingzhou Lu , Zaixi Zhang , Lichao Sun , Marinka Zitnik , Tianfan Fu , Zhiding Liang

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is critical for drug discovery. While recent deep learning approaches have demonstrated promising results, they often rely solely on structural features of proteins and ligands,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Han Liu , Keyan Ding , Peilin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Dapeng Wu , Shiqi Wang

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

Designing 3D ligands within a target binding site is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Existing structured-based drug design methods treat all ligand atoms equally, which ignores different roles of atoms in the ligand for drug design…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-14 Jiaqi Guan , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu

Binding affinity prediction of three-dimensional (3D) protein ligand complexes is critical for drug repositioning and virtual drug screening. Existing approaches transform a 3D protein-ligand complex to a two-dimensional (2D) graph, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-31 Yiqiang Yi , Xu Wan , Kangfei Zhao , Le Ou-Yang , Peilin Zhao

The first step in drug discovery is finding drug molecule moieties with medicinal activity against specific targets. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the interaction between drug-target proteins and small chemical molecules. However,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-15 Boyuan Liu

Drug discovery represents a time-consuming and financially intensive process, and virtual screening can accelerate it. Scoring functions, as one of the tools guiding virtual screening, have their precision closely tied to screening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Haotian Gao , Xiangying Zhang , Jingyuan Li , Xinchong Chen , Haojie Wang , Yifei Qi , Renxiao Wang

Recently, deep neural network (DNN)-based drug-target interaction (DTI) models were highlighted for their high accuracy with affordable computational costs. Yet, the models' insufficient generalization remains a challenging problem in the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-14 Seokhyun Moon , Wonho Zhung , Soojung Yang , Jaechang Lim , Woo Youn Kim

The prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is of great significance for discovering lead compounds in drug research. Facing this challenging task, most existing prediction methods rely on the topological and/or spatial structure of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-28 Yang Zhang , Gengmo Zhou , Zhewei Wei , Hongteng Xu

Traditional drug discovery relies on rounds of screening millions of candidate molecules with low success rates, making drug discovery time and resource intensive. To overcome this screening bottleneck, we introduce Latent-X, an all-atom…

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

Accurate drug target affinity prediction can improve drug candidate selection, accelerate the drug discovery process, and reduce drug production costs. Previous work focused on traditional fingerprints or used features extracted based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Amritpal Singh

Computational models that accurately predict the binding affinity of an input protein-chemical pair can accelerate drug discovery studies. These models are trained on available protein-chemical interaction datasets, which may contain…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-10 Rıza Özçelik , Alperen Bağ , Berk Atıl , Melih Barsbey , Arzucan Özgür , Elif Özkırımlı

Protein-ligand structure prediction is an essential task in drug discovery, predicting the binding interactions between small molecules (ligands) and target proteins (receptors). Recent advances have incorporated deep learning techniques to…