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The knowledge of potentially druggable binding sites on proteins is an important preliminary step towards the discovery of novel drugs. The computational prediction of such areas can be boosted by following the recent major advances in the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-17 Stelios K. Mylonas , Apostolos Axenopoulos , Petros Daras

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven methods can vastly improve the historically costly drug design process, with various generative models already in widespread use. Generative models for de novo drug design, in particular, focus on the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-27 Xiangru Tang , Howard Dai , Elizabeth Knight , Fang Wu , Yunyang Li , Tianxiao Li , Mark Gerstein

Proteins are sequences of amino acids that serve as the basic building blocks of living organisms. Despite rapidly growing databases documenting structural and functional information for various protein sequences, our understanding of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-06 Weihang Dai

Structure-based drug design involves finding ligand molecules that exhibit structural and chemical complementarity to protein pockets. Deep generative methods have shown promise in proposing novel molecules from scratch (de-novo design),…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-09 Pavol Drotár , Arian Rokkum Jamasb , Ben Day , Cătălina Cangea , Pietro Liò

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…

Drug development is an expensive and time-consuming process where thousands of chemical compounds are being tested in order to find those possessing drug-like properties while being safe and effective. One of key parts of the early drug…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-15 Josip Mesarić

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

Predicting the structure of multi-protein complexes is a grand challenge in biochemistry, with major implications for basic science and drug discovery. Computational structure prediction methods generally leverage pre-defined structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-26 Stephan Eismann , Raphael J. L. Townshend , Nathaniel Thomas , Milind Jagota , Bowen Jing , Ron O. Dror

Drug discovery remains a slow and expensive process that involves many steps, from detecting the target structure to obtaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is often riddled with safety concerns. Accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-22 Ali Vefghi , Zahed Rahmati , Mohammad Akbari

Aberrant protein-protein interactions (PPIs) underpin a plethora of human diseases, and disruption of these harmful interactions constitute a compelling treatment avenue. Advances in computational approaches to PPI prediction have closely…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-29 François Charih , James R. Green , Kyle K. Biggar

Accurate identification of drug-target interactions (DTI) remains a central challenge in computational pharmacology, where sequence-based methods offer scalability. This work introduces a sequence-based drug-target interaction framework…

Introduction: Artificial intelligence (AI) is exhibiting tremendous potential to reduce the massive costs and long timescales of drug discovery. There are however important challenges currently limiting the impact and scope of AI models.…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-25 Ghita Ghislat , Saiveth Hernandez-Hernandez , Chayanit Piyawajanusorn , Pedro J. Ballester

We outline recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques for integrative structural biology of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDP) ensembles. IDPs challenge the traditional protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-03 Arvind Ramanathan , Heng Ma , Akash Parvatikar , Chakra S. Chennubhotla

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the drug discovery process, offering improved efficiency, accuracy, and speed. However, the successful application of AI is dependent on the availability of high-quality data,…

Using machine learning, especially deep learning, to facilitate biological research is a fascinating research direction. However, in addition to the standard classification or regression problems, in bioinformatics, we often need to predict…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-31 Yu Li

Despite continuing hype about the role of AI in drug discovery, no "AI-discovered drugs" have so far received regulatory approval. Here we assess one of the latest AI based tools in this domain. The ability to rapidly predict protein-ligand…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Shunzhou Wan , Xibei Zhang , Xiao Xue , Peter V. Coveney

Currently, the field of structure-based drug design is dominated by three main types of algorithms: search-based algorithms, deep generative models, and reinforcement learning. While existing works have typically focused on comparing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kangyu Zheng , Yingzhou Lu , Zaixi Zhang , Zhongwei Wan , Yao Ma , Marinka Zitnik , Tianfan Fu

Structure determination is essential to a mechanistic understanding of diseases and the development of novel therapeutics. Machine-learning-based structure prediction methods have made significant advancements by computationally predicting…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked immense interest in drug discovery, but most current approaches only digitize existing high-throughput experiments. They remain constrained by conventional pipelines. As a result, they do not address…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-29 You Wu , Philip E. Bourne , Lei Xie

The characterization of drug-protein interactions is crucial in the high-throughput screening for drug discovery. The deep learning-based approaches have attracted attention because they can predict drug-protein interactions without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 QHwan Kim , Joon-Hyuk Ko , Sunghoon Kim , Nojun Park , Wonho Jhe