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In silico prediction of the ligand binding pose to a given protein target is a crucial but challenging task in drug discovery. This work focuses on blind flexible selfdocking, where we aim to predict the positions, orientations and…

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The identification of novel drug-target (DT) interactions is a substantial part of the drug discovery process. Most of the computational methods that have been proposed to predict DT interactions have focused on binary classification, where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-06 Hakime Öztürk , Elif Ozkirimli , Arzucan Özgür

3D molecule generation is crucial for drug discovery and material design. While prior efforts focus on 3D diffusion models for their benefits in modeling continuous 3D conformers, they overlook the advantages of 1D SELFIES-based Language…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-28 Zhiyuan Liu , Yanchen Luo , Han Huang , Enzhi Zhang , Sihang Li , Junfeng Fang , Yaorui Shi , Xiang Wang , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tat-Seng Chua

Proteins are macromolecules that mediate a significant fraction of the cellular processes that underlie life. An important task in bioengineering is designing proteins with specific 3D structures and chemical properties which enable…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-31 Namrata Anand , Tudor Achim

We present Acc3D to tackle the challenge of accelerating the diffusion process to generate 3D models from single images. To derive high-quality reconstructions through few-step inferences, we emphasize the critical issue of regularizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Kendong Liu , Zhiyu Zhu , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou

The field of drug discovery hinges on the accurate prediction of binding affinity between prospective drug molecules and target proteins, especially when such proteins directly influence disease progression. However, estimating binding…

Many generative tasks in chemistry and science involve distributions invariant to group symmetries (e.g., permutation and rotation). A common strategy enforces invariance and equivariance through architectural constraints such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Cai Zhou , Zijie Chen , Zian Li , Jike Wang , Kaiyi Jiang , Pan Li , Rose Yu , Muhan Zhang , Stephen Bates , Tommi Jaakkola

As one of the most popular and sought-after generative models in the recent years, diffusion models have sparked the interests of many researchers and steadily shown excellent advantage in various generative tasks such as image synthesis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zhiyuan Ma , Yuzhu Zhang , Guoli Jia , Liangliang Zhao , Yichao Ma , Mingjie Ma , Gaofeng Liu , Kaiyan Zhang , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

Designing 3D ligands within a target binding site is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Existing structured-based drug design methods treat all ligand atoms equally, which ignores different roles of atoms in the ligand for drug design…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-14 Jiaqi Guan , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu

Without knowledge of specific pockets, generating ligands based on the global structure of a protein target plays a crucial role in drug discovery as it helps reduce the search space for potential drug-like candidates in the pipeline.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-02 Nhat Khang Ngo , Truong Son Hy

Sampling viable 3D structures (e.g., molecules and point clouds) with SE(3)-invariance using diffusion-based models proved promising in a variety of real-world applications, wherein SE(3)-invariant properties can be naturally characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zihan Zhou , Ruiying Liu , Jiachen Zheng , Xiaoxue Wang , Tianshu Yu

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-12 Marta M. Stepniewska-Dziubinska , Piotr Zielenkiewicz , Pawel Siedlecki

Accurate prediction of drug-target binding affinity can accelerate drug discovery by prioritizing promising compounds before costly wet-lab screening. While deep learning has advanced this task, most models fuse ligand and protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Mohammadsaleh Refahi , Bahrad A. Sokhansanj , James R. Brown , Gail Rosen

Generative models have shown great promise in generating 3D geometric systems, which is a fundamental problem in many natural science domains such as molecule and protein design. However, existing approaches only operate on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jiaqi Han , Minkai Xu , Aaron Lou , Haotian Ye , Stefano Ermon

Convolutional networks are successful, but they have recently been outperformed by new neural networks that are equivariant under rotations and translations. These new networks work better because they do not struggle with learning each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Philip Müller , Vladimir Golkov , Valentina Tomassini , Daniel Cremers

In this work, we introduce AutoFragDiff, a fragment-based autoregressive diffusion model for generating 3D molecular structures conditioned on target protein structures. We employ geometric vector perceptrons to predict atom types and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-12 Mahdi Ghorbani , Leo Gendelev , Paul Beroza , Michael J. Keiser

Diffusion models are important in tissue engineering as they enable an understanding of molecular delivery to cells in tissue constructs. As three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs become larger, more intricate, and more clinically…

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Inspired by Geoffrey Hinton emphasis on generative modeling, To recognize shapes, first learn to generate them, we explore the use of 3D diffusion models for object classification. Leveraging the density estimates from these models, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Nursena Koprucu , Meher Shashwat Nigam , Shicheng Xu , Biruk Abere , Gabriele Dominici , Andrew Rodriguez , Sharvaree Vadgama , Berfin Inal , Alberto Tono

This work introduces E3x, a software package for building neural networks that are equivariant with respect to the Euclidean group $\mathrm{E}(3)$, consisting of translations, rotations, and reflections of three-dimensional space. Compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Oliver T. Unke , Hartmut Maennel

Retrosynthesis plays a crucial role in the fields of organic synthesis and drug development, where the goal is to identify suitable reactants that can yield a target product molecule. Although existing methods have achieved notable success,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jiaxi Zhuang , Yu Zhang , Yan Zhang , Ying Qian , Aimin Zhou