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Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-09 Rohit Batra , Henry Chan , Ganesh Kamath , Rampi Ramprasad , Mathew J. Cherukara , Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

Improving the throughput of molecular docking, a computationally intensive phase of the virtual screening process, is a highly sought area of research since it has a significant weight in the drug designing process. With such improvements,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-05 Upul Senanayake , Rahal Prabuddha , Roshan Ragel

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 docking is a critical computational strategy in drug design and discovery, but the complex diversity of biomolecular structures and flexible binding conformations create an enormous search space that challenges conventional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Yihan He , Ming-Chun Hong , Qiming Ding , Chih-Sheng Lin , Chih-Ming Lai , Chao Fang , Xiao Gong , Tuo-Hung Hou , Gengchiau Liang

Molecular docking is a key task in computational biology that has attracted increasing interest from the machine learning community. While existing methods have achieved success, they generally treat each protein-ligand pair in isolation.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-28 Jiaqi Guan , Jiahan Li , Xiangxin Zhou , Xingang Peng , Sheng Wang , Yunan Luo , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

In drug discovery, molecular docking is the task in charge of estimating the position of a molecule when interacting with the docking site. This task is usually used to perform screening of a large library of molecules, in the early phase…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Emanuele Vitali , Davide Gadioli , Gianluca Palermo , Andrea Beccari , Carlo Cavazzoni , Cristina Silvano

Molecular docking plays a crucial role in predicting the binding mode of ligands to target proteins, and covalent interactions, which involve the formation of a covalent bond between the ligand and the target, are particularly valuable due…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-27 Yangzhe Peng , Kaiyuan Gao , Liang He , Yuheng Cong , Haiguang Liu , Kun He , Lijun Wu

Molecular docking is a central method in the computer-based screening of compound libraries as a part of the rational approach to drug design. Although the method has proved its competence in predicting binding modes correctly, its inherent…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-01 Eva Kiszka

Computational docking is the core process of computer-aided drug design; it aims at predicting the best orientation and conformation of a small drug molecule when bound to a target large protein receptor. The docking quality is typically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-25 Mohamed Khamis , Walid Gomaa , Basem Galal

The emergence of COVID-19 has severely compromised the arsenal of antiviral and antibiotic drugs. Drug discovery is a multistep process with a high failure rate, high cost and it takes approximately 10-12 years for the development of new…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-15 Atanu Barik , Geeta Rai , Gyan Modi

Today digital revolution is having a dramatic impact on the pharmaceutical industry and the entire healthcare system. The implementation of machine learning, extreme-scale computer simulations, and big data analytics in the drug design and…

Molecular docking is a key computational tool utilized to predict the binding conformations of small molecules to protein targets, which is fundamental in the design of novel drugs. Despite recent advancements in geometric deep…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-01 Jiaxian Yan , Zaixi Zhang , Kai Zhang , Qi Liu

Molecular docking, a technique for predicting ligand binding poses, is crucial in structure-based drug design for understanding protein-ligand interactions. Recent advancements in docking methods, particularly those leveraging geometric…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-17 Jiaxian Yan , Zaixi Zhang , Jintao Zhu , Kai Zhang , Jianfeng Pei , Qi Liu

The effects of ligand binding on protein structures and their in vivo functions carry numerous implications for modern biomedical research and biotechnology development efforts such as drug discovery. Although several deep learning (DL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Alex Morehead , Nabin Giri , Jian Liu , Pawan Neupane , Jianlin Cheng

Virtual screening is an early stage of the drug discovery process that selects the most promising candidates. In the urgent computing scenario it is critical to find a solution in a short time frame. In this paper, we focus on a real-world…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Gianmarco Accordi , Emanuele Vitali , Davide Gadioli , Luigi Crisci , Biagio Cosenza , Mauro Bisson , Massimiliano Fatica , Andrea Beccari , Gianluca Palermo

High-performance computing (HPC) is reshaping computational drug discovery by enabling large-scale, time-efficient molecular simulations. In this work, we explore HPC-driven pipelines for Alzheimer's disease drug discovery, focusing on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Paul Ruiz Alliata , Diana Rubaga , Daniel Kumlin , Alberto Puliga

Molecular docking is a core tool in drug discovery for predicting ligand-target interactions. Despite the availability of diverse search-based and machine learning approaches, no single docking algorithm consistently dominates, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Siyuan Cao , Hongxuan Wu , Jiabao Brad Wang , Yiliang Yuan , Mustafa Misir

Virtual screening (VS) is an essential task in drug discovery, focusing on the identification of small-molecule ligands that bind to specific protein pockets. Existing deep learning methods, from early regression models to recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Bowei He , Bowen Gao , Yankai Chen , Yanyan Lan , Chen Ma , Philip S. Yu , Ya-Qin Zhang , Wei-Ying Ma

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

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