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Proxy-apps, or mini-apps, are simple self-contained benchmark codes with performance-relevant kernels extracted from real applications. Initially used to facilitate software-hardware co-design, they are a crucial ingredient for serious…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Rafael Ravedutti Lucio Machado , Jan Eitzinger , Harald Köstler , Gerhard Wellein

Motivation: Computational methods are essential to extract actionable information from raw sequencing data, and to thus fulfill the promise of next-generation sequencing technology. Unfortunately, computational tools developed to call…

The fundamental goal of generative drug design is to propose optimized molecules that meet predefined activity, selectivity, and pharmacokinetic criteria. Despite recent progress, we argue that existing generative methods are limited in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Julien Horwood , Emmanuel Noutahi

Current molecular understanding approaches predominantly focus on the descriptive aspect of human perception, providing broad, topic-level insights. However, the referential aspect -- linking molecular concepts to specific structural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jiaxin Wu , Ting Zhang , Rubing Chen , Wengyu Zhang , Chen Jason Zhang , Xiao-Yong Wei , Li Qing

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

Proteins are the fundamental macromolecules that play diverse and crucial roles in all living matter and have tremendous implications in healthcare, manufacturing, and biotechnology. Their functions are largely determined by the sequences…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-17 Boqiao Lai

In this study, we present ScoreFormer, a novel graph transformer model designed to accurately predict molecular docking scores, thereby optimizing high-throughput virtual screening (HTVS) in drug discovery. The architecture integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Álvaro Ciudad , Adrián Morales-Pastor , Laura Malo , Isaac Filella-Mercè , Victor Guallar , Alexis Molina

Molecular discovery has brought great benefits to the chemical industry. Various molecule design techniques are developed to identify molecules with desirable properties. Traditional optimization methods, such as genetic algorithms,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-05 Chris Zhuang , Debadyuti Mukherjee , Yingzhou Lu , Tianfan Fu , Ruqi Zhang

Protein (receptor)--ligand interaction prediction is a critical component in computer-aided drug design, significantly influencing molecular docking and virtual screening processes. Despite the development of numerous scoring functions in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-22 Haoyu Lin , Shiwei Wang , Jintao Zhu , Yibo Li , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

A large proportion of organic molecules relevant to medicine and biotechnology contain one or more ionizable groups, which means that fundamental physical and chemical properties (e.g. the charge of the molecule) depend on the pH of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-03 Jan H. Jensen

The machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques are widely recognized to be powerful tools for virtual drug screening. The recently reported ML- or DL-based scoring functions have shown exciting performance in predicting…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-07 Zechen Wang , Liangzhen Zheng , Sheng Wang , Mingzhi Lin , Zhihao Wang , Adams Wai-Kin Kong , Yuguang Mu , Yanjie Wei , Weifeng Li

Protein design aims to compose amino-acid sequences that fold into stable three-dimensional structures while satisfying targeted functional properties. The field is increasingly shifting toward vibe protein design, where a single model is…

In the scope of drug discovery, the molecular design aims to identify novel compounds from the chemical space where the potential drug-like molecules are estimated to be in the order of 10^60 - 10^100. Since this search task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Wenlu Wang , Ye Wang , Honggang Zhao , Simone Sciabola

High-throughput structure-based screening of drug-like molecules has become a common tool in biomedical research. Recently, acceleration with graphics processing units (GPUs) has provided a large performance boost for molecular docking…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Mathialakan Thavappiragasam , Wael Elwasif , Ada Sedova

Molecular optimization is a fundamental goal in the chemical sciences and is of central interest to drug and material design. In recent years, significant progress has been made in solving challenging problems across various aspects of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenhao Gao , Tianfan Fu , Jimeng Sun , Connor W. Coley

A novel framework has recently been proposed for designing the molecular structure of chemical compounds with a desired chemical property, where design of novel drugs is an important topic in bioinformatics and chemo-informatics. The…

Structure-based virtual screening (SBVS) is a key workflow in computational drug discovery. SBVS models are assessed by measuring the enrichment of known active molecules over decoys in retrospective screens. However, the standard formula…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-18 Michael Brocidiacono , Konstantin I. Popov , Alexander Tropsha

Engineering new molecules with desirable functions and properties has the potential to extend our ability to engineer proteins beyond what nature has so far evolved. Advances in the so-called "de novo" design problem have recently been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Adam Winnifrith , Carlos Outeiral , Brian Hie

Disordered proteins play essential roles in myriad cellular processes, yet their structural characterization remains a major challenge due to their dynamic and heterogeneous nature. We here present a community-driven initiative to address…

Machine learning, particularly graph learning, is gaining increasing recognition for its transformative impact across various fields. One such promising application is in the realm of molecule design and discovery, notably within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Nianzu Yang , Huaijin Wu , Kaipeng Zeng , Yang Li , Junchi Yan