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Antibody therapeutics has been extensively studied in drug discovery and development within the past decades. One increasingly popular focus in the antibody discovery pipeline is the optimization step for therapeutic leads. Both traditional…

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Modeling the interaction between proteins and ligands and accurately predicting their binding structures is a critical yet challenging task in drug discovery. Recent advancements in deep learning have shown promise in addressing this…

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Protein-ligand structure prediction is an essential task in drug discovery, predicting the binding interactions between small molecules (ligands) and target proteins (receptors). Recent advances have incorporated deep learning techniques to…

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After AlphaFold won the Nobel Prize, protein prediction with deep learning once again became a hot topic. We comprehensively explore advanced deep learning methods applied to protein structure prediction and design. It begins by examining…

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This study assesses the efficiency of several popular machine learning approaches in the prediction of molecular binding affinity: CatBoost, Graph Attention Neural Network, and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. The…

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Prediction of protein-ligand complexes for flexible proteins remains still a challenging problem in computational structural biology and drug design. Here we present two novel deep neural network approaches with significant improvement in…

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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…

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Drug-target binding affinity prediction plays an important role in the early stages of drug discovery, which can infer the strength of interactions between new drugs and new targets. However, the performance of previous computational models…

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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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