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Pharmaceutical process design and development for generic, innovative, or personalized drugs have always been a time-consuming, costly, rigorous process, that involves multi-stage evaluation for better quality control and assurance. Large…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Leqi Lin , Xingyu Zhou , Kaiyuan Yang , Xizhong Chen

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

One of the key requirements for incorporating machine learning into the drug discovery process is complete reproducibility and traceability of the model building and evaluation process. With this in mind, we have developed an end-to-end…

Motivation: A major challenge in the development of machine learning based methods in computational biology is that data may not be accurately labeled due to the time and resources required for experimentally annotating properties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Amina Asif , Wajid Arshad Abbasi , Farzeen Munir , Asa Ben-Hur , Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas

In the field of Structure-based Drug Design (SBDD), deep learning-based generative models have achieved outstanding performance in terms of docking score. However, further study shows that the existing molecular generative methods and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-21 Bowen Gao , Minsi Ren , Yuyan Ni , Yanwen Huang , Bo Qiang , Zhi-Ming Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Datasets used for molecular docking, such as PDBBind, contain technical variability - they are noisy. Although the origins of the noise have been discussed, a comprehensive analysis of the physical, chemical, and bioactivity characteristics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Ahmet Sarigun , Vedran Franke , Bora Uyar , Altuna Akalin

Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction plays a very important role in drug development and drug discovery. Biochemical experiments or \textit{in vitro} methods are very expensive, laborious and time-consuming. Therefore, \textit{in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Ratha Pech , Dong Hao , Yan-Li Lee , Maryna Po , Tao Zhou

The performance of machine learning models in drug discovery is highly dependent on the quality and consistency of the underlying training data. Due to limitations in dataset sizes, many models are trained by aggregating bioactivity data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Vincent Fan , Regina Barzilay

Identifying novel drug-target interactions (DTI) is a critical and rate limiting step in drug discovery. While deep learning models have been proposed to accelerate the identification process, we show that state-of-the-art models fail to…

Background: Identifying new indications for approved drugs is a complex and time-consuming process that requires extensive knowledge of pharmacology, clinical data, and advanced computational methods. Recently, deep learning (DL) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Shuting Jin , Yi Jiang , Yimin Liu , Tengfei Ma , Dongsheng Cao , Leyi Wei , Xiangrong Liu , Xiangxiang Zeng

We have earlier reported the iMOLSDOCK technique to perform induced-fit peptide-protein docking. iMOLSDOCK uses the mutually orthogonal Latin squares (MOLS) technique to sample the conformation and the docking pose of the small molecule…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 D. Sam Paul , N. Gautham

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is crucial for drug development. Recent advances in machine learning show promising results on this task. However, these methods typically rely heavily on labeled data, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Meng Liu , Saee Gopal Paliwal

Computational drug discovery strategies can be broadly placed in two categories: ligand-based methods which identify novel molecules by similarity with known ligands, and structure-based methods which predict molecules with high-affinity to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-30 Vincent Mallet , Carlos G. Oliver , Nicolas Moitessier , Jerome Waldispuhl

We present TerraBind, a foundation model for protein-ligand structure and binding affinity prediction that achieves 26-fold faster inference than state-of-the-art methods while improving affinity prediction accuracy by $\sim$20\%. Current…

Publicly available collections of drug-like molecules have grown to comprise 10s of billions of possibilities in recent history due to advances in chemical synthesis. Traditional methods for identifying "hit" molecules from a large…

Recent reasoning-based large language models have shown strong performance on tasks with verifiable outcomes, but their use in de novo molecular generation remains limited by the lack of training environments where rewards can be computed…

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De novo molecular design has facilitated the exploration of large chemical space to accelerate drug discovery. Structure-based de novo method can overcome the data scarcity of active ligands by incorporating drug-target interaction into…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-16 Yaqin Li , Lingli Li , Yongjin Xu , Yi Yu

Molecular docking is an essential step in the drug discovery process involving the detection of three-dimensional poses of a ligand inside the active site of the protein. In this paper, we address the Molecular Docking search phase by…

Precise recognition, editing, and generation of molecules are essential prerequisites for both chemists and AI systems tackling various chemical tasks. We present MolLangBench, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate fundamental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Feiyang Cai , Jiahui Bai , Tao Tang , Guijuan He , Joshua Luo , Tianyu Zhu , Srikanth Pilla , Gang Li , Ling Liu , Feng Luo

We present a highly efficient molecular dynamics scheme for calculating the concentration profile of dopants implanted in group-IV alloy, and III-V zinc blende structure materials. Our program incorporates methods for reducing computational…

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