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Protein-ligand scoring is an important step in a structure-based drug design pipeline. Selecting a correct binding pose and predicting the binding affinity of a protein-ligand complex enables effective virtual screening. Machine learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Joshua Hochuli , Alec Helbling , Tamar Skaist , Matthew Ragoza , David Ryan Koes

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

Deep learning-based computational methods have achieved promising results in predicting protein-protein interactions (PPIs). However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on isolated pairwise evaluations, overlooking a model's capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xinzhe Zheng , Hao Du , Fanding Xu , Jinzhe Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Wenkang Wang , Tao Chen , Wanli Ouyang , Stan Z. Li , Yan Lu , Nanqing Dong , Yang Zhang

In recent years machine learning (ML) took bio- and cheminformatics fields by storm, providing new solutions for a vast repertoire of problems related to protein sequence, structure, and interactions analysis. ML techniques, deep neural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-31 Marta M. Stepniewska-Dziubinska , Piotr Zielenkiewicz , Pawel Siedlecki

Virtual screening, which identifies potential drugs from vast compound databases to bind with a particular protein pocket, is a critical step in AI-assisted drug discovery. Traditional docking methods are highly time-consuming, and can only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Bowen Gao , Bo Qiang , Haichuan Tan , Minsi Ren , Yinjun Jia , Minsi Lu , Jingjing Liu , Weiying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Drug-target interaction is fundamental in understanding how drugs affect biological systems, and accurately predicting drug-target affinity (DTA) is vital for drug discovery. Recently, deep learning methods have emerged as a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Minghui Li , Zikang Guo , Yang Wu , Peijin Guo , Yao Shi , Shengshan Hu , Wei Wan , Shengqing Hu

We present a simple, modular graph-based convolutional neural network that takes structural information from protein-ligand complexes as input to generate models for activity and binding mode prediction. Complex structures are generated by…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-26 Joseph A. Morrone , Jeffrey K. Weber , Tien Huynh , Heng Luo , Wendy D. Cornell

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…

Binding affinity prediction of three-dimensional (3D) protein ligand complexes is critical for drug repositioning and virtual drug screening. Existing approaches transform a 3D protein-ligand complex to a two-dimensional (2D) graph, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-31 Yiqiang Yi , Xu Wan , Kangfei Zhao , Le Ou-Yang , Peilin Zhao

The identification of active binding drugs for target proteins (termed as drug-target interaction prediction) is the key challenge in virtual screening, which plays an essential role in drug discovery. Although recent deep learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Siyuan Liu , Yusong Wang , Tong Wang , Yifan Deng , Liang He , Bin Shao , Jian Yin , Nanning Zheng , Tie-Yan Liu

Motivation: Prediction of the interaction affinity between proteins and compounds is a major challenge in the drug discovery process. WideDTA is a deep-learning based prediction model that employs chemical and biological textual sequence…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-13 Hakime Öztürk , Elif Ozkirimli , Arzucan Özgür

Predicting a ligand's bound pose to a target protein is a key component of early-stage computational drug discovery. Recent developments in machine learning methods have focused on improving pose quality at the cost of model runtime. For…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-23 Wojtek Treyde , Seohyun Chris Kim , Nazim Bouatta , Mohammed AlQuraishi

Predicting how a drug-like molecule binds to a specific protein target is a core problem in drug discovery. An extremely fast computational binding method would enable key applications such as fast virtual screening or drug engineering.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-07 Hannes Stärk , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Lagnajit Pattanaik , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

The first step in drug discovery is finding drug molecule moieties with medicinal activity against specific targets. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the interaction between drug-target proteins and small chemical molecules. However,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-15 Boyuan Liu

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

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

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have ignited interest in developing effective methods for predicting protein-ligand interactions (PLIs) given their relevance to drug discovery and protein engineering efforts and the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-18 James Michels , Ramya Bandarupalli , Amin Ahangar Akbari , Thai Le , Hong Xiao , Jing Li , Erik F. Y. Hom

Accurate prediction of drug-target interaction (DTI) is essential for in silico drug design. For the purpose, we propose a novel approach for predicting DTI using a GNN that directly incorporates the 3D structure of a protein-ligand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jaechang Lim , Seongok Ryu , Kyubyong Park , Yo Joong Choe , Jiyeon Ham , Woo Youn Kim

Deep learning approaches achieved significant progress in predicting protein structures. These methods are often applied to protein-protein interactions (PPIs) yet require Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) which is unavailable for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Matan Halfon , Tomer Cohen , Raanan Fattal , Dina Schneidman-Duhovny

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a crucial role in numerous biological processes. Developing methods that predict binding affinity changes under substitution mutations is fundamental for modelling and re-engineering biological…