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Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is an essential challenge in structure-based drug design. Despite recent advances in data-driven methods for affinity prediction, their accuracy is still limited, partially because…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Yaosen Min , Ye Wei , Peizhuo Wang , Xiaoting Wang , Han Li , Nian Wu , Stefan Bauer , Shuxin Zheng , Yu Shi , Yingheng Wang , Ji Wu , Dan Zhao , Jianyang Zeng

The protein folding problem must ultimately be solved on all length scales from the atomic up through a hierarchy of complicated structures. By analyzing the stability of the folding process using physics and mathematics, this paper shows…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Walter Simmons , Joel L. Weiner

We provide an algorithm for adaptive legged locomotion via online learning and model predictive control. The algorithm is composed of two interacting modules: model predictive control (MPC) and online learning of residual dynamics. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hongyu Zhou , Xiaoyu Zhang , Vasileios Tzoumas

Proteins perform critical processes in all living systems: converting solar energy into chemical energy, replicating DNA, as the basis of highly performant materials, sensing and much more. While an incredible range of functionality has…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-29 Leonardo V. Castorina , Rokas Petrenas , Kartic Subr , Christopher W. Wood

We introduce SkelFormer, a novel markerless motion capture pipeline for multi-view human pose and shape estimation. Our method first uses off-the-shelf 2D keypoint estimators, pre-trained on large-scale in-the-wild data, to obtain 3D joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Vandad Davoodnia , Saeed Ghorbani , Alexandre Messier , Ali Etemad

Mapping the conformational dynamics of proteins is crucial for elucidating their functional mechanisms. While Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation enables detailed time evolution of protein motion, its computational toll hinders its use in…

The three-dimensional shape and conformation of small-molecule ligands are critical for biomolecular recognition, yet encoding 3D geometry has not improved ligand-based virtual screening approaches. We describe an end-to-end deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Kangway V. Chuang , Michael J. Keiser

Drug resistance is a major threat to the global health and a significant concern throughout the clinical treatment of diseases and drug development. The mutation in proteins that is related to drug binding is a common cause for adaptive…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-18 Ziyi Yang , Zhaofeng Ye , Yijia Xiao , Changyu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Understanding the dynamic nature of protein structures is essential for comprehending their biological functions. While significant progress has been made in predicting static folded structures, modeling protein motions on microsecond to…

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to efficiently discover high-affinity ligands within vast chemical spaces. However, current generative models struggle with objective misalignment and rigid sampling budgets. We present MolFORM, a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Daiheng Zhang , Zhao Zhang

We present GridFF, an efficient method for simulating molecules on rigid substrates, derived from techniques used in protein-ligand docking in biochemistry. By projecting molecule-substrate interactions onto precomputed spatial grids with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Indranil Mal , Milan Kočí , Paolo Nicolini , Prokop Hapala

Unraveling the dynamical motions of biomolecules is essential for bridging their structure and function, yet it remains a major computational challenge. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation provides a detailed depiction of biomolecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Allan dos Santos Costa , Manvitha Ponnapati , Dana Rubin , Tess Smidt , Joseph Jacobson

Background: Many attempts have been made to resolve in time the folding of model proteins in computer simulations. Different computational approaches have emerged. Some of these approaches suffer from the insensitivity to the geometrical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolay V. Dokholyan , Sergey V. Buldyrev , H. Eugene Stanley , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

One of the major applications of generative models for drug Discovery targets the lead-optimization phase. During the optimization of a lead series, it is common to have scaffold constraints imposed on the structure of the molecules…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-05 Maxime Langevin , Herve Minoux , Maximilien Levesque , Marc Bianciotto

Classifying protein topology is essential for deciphering biological function, but progress is held back by the lack of large-scale benchmarks that avoid duplicates and by models that do not scale well. We introduce TEDBench, a large-scale,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dexiong Chen , Andrei Manolache , Mathias Niepert , Karsten Borgwardt

Protein folding is the intricate process by which a linear sequence of amino acids self-assembles into a unique three-dimensional structure. Protein folding kinetics is the study of pathways and time-dependent mechanisms a protein undergoes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Vijay Arvind. R , Haribharathi Sivakumar , Brindha. R

In recent years, machine learning has been proposed as a promising strategy to build accurate scoring functions for computational docking finalized to numerically empowered drug discovery. However, the latest studies have suggested that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-17 F. Pellicani , D. Dal Ben , A. Perali , S. Pilati

Predicting the binding sites of target proteins plays a fundamental role in drug discovery. Most existing deep-learning methods consider a protein as a 3D image by spatially clustering its atoms into voxels and then feed the voxelized…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-24 Yang Zhang , Zhewei Wei , Ye Yuan , Chongxuan Li , Wenbing Huang

Protein inverse folding aims to design an amino acid sequence that will fold into a given backbone structure, serving as a central task in protein design. Two main paradigms have been widely explored. Template-based methods exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiran Zhu , Changxi Chi , Hongxin Xiang , Wenjie Du , Xiaoqi Wang , Jun Xia

Predicting the three-dimensional (3D) functional structures of proteins remains an important computational milestone in molecular biology to be achieved. This feat is hinged on a clear understanding of the mechanism which proteins use to…

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