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Predicting compound-protein affinity is critical for accelerating drug discovery. Recent progress made by machine learning focuses on accuracy but leaves much to be desired for interpretability. Through molecular contacts underlying…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-01 Mostafa Karimi , Di Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

Machine learning (ML) is widely used in drug discovery to train models that predict protein-ligand binding. These models are of great value to medicinal chemists, in particular if they provide case-specific insight into the physical…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-14 Carl Poelking , Gianni Chessari , Christopher W. Murray , Richard J. Hall , Lucy Colwell , Marcel Verdonk

We describe the accurate prediction of ligand-protein interaction (LPI) affinities, also known as drug-target interactions (DTI), with instruction fine-tuned pretrained generative small language models (SLMs). We achieved accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ben Fauber

Accurate and early prediction of a disease allows to plan and improve a patient's quality of future life. During pandemic situations, the medical decision becomes a speed challenge in which physicians have to act fast to diagnose and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Pierluigi Costanzo , Kalia Orphanou

Molecular docking is a core tool in drug discovery for predicting ligand-target interactions. Despite the availability of diverse search-based and machine learning approaches, no single docking algorithm consistently dominates, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Siyuan Cao , Hongxuan Wu , Jiabao Brad Wang , Yiliang Yuan , Mustafa Misir

Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone receptor (GnRH1R) is a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of uterine diseases. To date, several GnRH1R antagonists are available in clinical investigation without satisfying multiple property…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-26 Song Li , Song Ke , Chenxing Yang , Jun Chen , Yi Xiong , Lirong Zheng , Hao Liu , Liang Hong

Binding affinity optimization is crucial in early-stage drug discovery. While numerous machine learning methods exist for predicting ligand potency, their comparative efficacy remains unclear. This study evaluates the performance of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-30 Nikolai Schapin , Carles Navarro , Albert Bou , Gianni De Fabritiis

The pharmaceutical Research and development (R&D) process is lengthy and costly, taking nearly a decade to bring a new drug to the market. However, advancements in biotechnology, computational methods, and machine learning algorithms have…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-24 Damilola Oshunyinka

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. The progression and severity of MS varies by individual, but it is generally a disabling disease. Although medications have been developed to…

Applications · Statistics 2013-03-06 Joyce C. Ho , Joydeep Ghosh , KP Unnikrishnan

The rise of single-cell sequencing technologies has revolutionized the exploration of drug resistance, revealing the crucial role of cellular heterogeneity in advancing precision medicine. By building computational models from existing…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-05 Yu-An Huang , Xiyue Cao , Zhu-Hong You , Yue-Chao Li , Xuequn Shang , Zhi-An Huang

The aim of the systematic review was to assess recently published studies on diagnostic test accuracy of glioblastoma treatment response monitoring biomarkers in adults, developed through machine learning (ML). Articles were searched for…

According to Cobanoglu et al and Murphy, it is now widely acknowledged that the single target paradigm (one protein or target, one disease, one drug) that has been the dominant premise in drug development in the recent past is untenable.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-25 Avid M. Afzal , Hamse Y. Mussa , Richard E. Turner , Andreas Bender , Robert C. Glen

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is crucial for rapid and efficient drug development. Recently, the importance of predicting binding affinity has led to increased attention on research that models the three-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Seungyeon Choi , Sangmin Seo , Sanghyun Park

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…

In this paper, we propose generating synthetic multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions on MRI images with the final aim to improve the performance of supervised machine learning algorithms, therefore avoiding the problem of the lack of available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Mostafa Salem , Sergi Valverde , Mariano Cabezas , Deborah Pareto , Arnau Oliver , Joaquim Salvi , Àlex Rovira , Xavier Lladó

The viability of a new drug molecule is a time and resource intensive task that makes computer-aided assessments a vital approach to rapid drug discovery. Here we develop a machine learning algorithm, iMiner, that generates novel inhibitor…

Drug resistance is still a major challenge in cancer therapy. Drug combination is expected to overcome drug resistance. However, the number of possible drug combinations is enormous, and thus it is infeasible to experimentally screen all…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-20 Tianyu Zhang , Liwei Zhang , Philip R. O. Payne , Fuhai Li

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in every stage of drug development. One challenge facing drug discovery AI is that drug pharmacokinetic (PK) datasets are often collected independently from each other, often with limited…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-03 Bing Hu , Anita Layton , Helen Chen

Opioid use disorder (OUD) continuously poses major public health challenges and social implications worldwide with dramatic rise of opioid dependence leading to potential abuse. Despite that a few pharmacological agents have been approved…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-13 Hongsong Feng , Rana Elladki , Jian Jiang , Guo-Wei Wei

Developing new drugs is laborious and costly, demanding extensive time investment. In this paper, we introduce a de-novo drug design strategy, which harnesses the capabilities of language models to devise targeted drugs for specific…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-20 Salma J. Ahmed , Emad A. Mohammed