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The trade-off between predictive accuracy and data availability makes it difficult to predict protein--protein binding affinity accurately. The lack of experimentally resolved protein structures limits the performance of structure-based…

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Applying deep learning concepts from image detection and graph theory has greatly advanced protein-ligand binding affinity prediction, a challenge with enormous ramifications for both drug discovery and protein engineering. We build upon…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-05 Gregory W. Kyro , Rafael I. Brent , Victor S. Batista

Accurate prediction of drug-target binding affinity can accelerate drug discovery by prioritizing promising compounds before costly wet-lab screening. While deep learning has advanced this task, most models fuse ligand and protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Mohammadsaleh Refahi , Bahrad A. Sokhansanj , James R. Brown , Gail Rosen

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

Predicting protein-ligand binding affinity is an essential part of computer-aided drug design. However, generalisable and performant global binding affinity models remain elusive, particularly in low data regimes. Despite the evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Julia Buhmann , Ward Haddadin , Lukáš Pravda , Alan Bilsland , Hagen Triendl

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

Advancements in AI for science unlocks capabilities for critical drug discovery tasks such as protein-ligand binding affinity prediction. However, current models overfit to existing oversimplified datasets that does not represent naturally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ming-Hsiu Wu , Ziqian Xie , Shuiwang Ji , Degui Zhi

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity remains a central challenge in structure-based drug discovery. The effectiveness of machine learning models critically depends on the quality of molecular descriptors, for which…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Jian Liu , Hongsong Feng

Motivation: Protein-ligand affinity prediction is an important part of structure-based drug design. It includes molecular docking and affinity prediction. Although molecular dynamics can predict affinity with high accuracy at present, it is…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-12 Yeji Wang , Shuo Wu , Yanwen Duan , Yong Huang

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

Protein-ligand complex structures have been utilised to design benchmark machine learning methods that perform important tasks related to drug design such as receptor binding site detection, small molecule docking and binding affinity…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-26 Rishal Aggarwal , Akash Gupta , U Deva Priyakumar

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity plays a pivotal role in accelerating the discovery of novel drugs and vaccines, particularly for gastrointestinal (GI) diseases such as gastric ulcers, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziyang Gao , Annie Cheung , Yihao Ou

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

Protein-ligand scoring is an important step in a structure-based drug design pipeline. Selecting a correct binding pose and predicting the binding affinity of a protein-ligand complex enables effective virtual screening. Machine learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Joshua Hochuli , Alec Helbling , Tamar Skaist , Matthew Ragoza , David Ryan Koes

Current generative models for drug discovery primarily use molecular docking to evaluate the quality of generated compounds. However, such models are often not useful in practice because even compounds with high docking scores do not…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-19 Peter Eckmann , Dongxia Wu , Germano Heinzelmann , Michael K Gilson , Rose Yu

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Shuo Zhang , Rongqi Hong , Huifeng Zhang , Jian K. Liu

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…

Protein structure prediction is pivotal for understanding the structure-function relationship of proteins, advancing biological research, and facilitating pharmaceutical development and experimental design. While deep learning methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kaihui Cheng , Ce Liu , Qingkun Su , Jun Wang , Liwei Zhang , Yining Tang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Yuan Qi

Accurately determining a change in protein binding affinity upon mutations is important for the discovery and design of novel therapeutics and to assist mutagenesis studies. Determination of change in binding affinity upon mutations…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-01 Wajid Arshad Abbasi , Syed Ali Abbas , Saiqa Andleeb

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