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The accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is important for drug discovery yet remains challenging for multi-domain proteins, where inter-domain dynamics and flexible linkers govern molecular recognition. Current geometric…

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Structure based ligand discovery is one of the most successful approaches for augmenting the drug discovery process. Currently, there is a notable shift towards machine learning (ML) methodologies to aid such procedures. Deep learning has…

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