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Computational docking methods can provide structural models of protein-protein complexes, but protein backbone flexibility upon association often thwarts accurate predictions. In recent blind challenges, medium or high accuracy models were…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-29 Ameya Harmalkar , Jeffrey J. Gray

Sampling physically valid ligand-binding poses remains a major challenge in molecular docking, particularly for unseen or structurally diverse targets. We introduce PocketVina, a fast and memory-efficient, search-based docking framework…

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Accurately predicting the binding conformation of small-molecule ligands to protein targets is a critical step in rational drug design. Although recent deep learning-based docking surpasses traditional methods in speed and accuracy, many…

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Predicting the 3D conformation of small molecules within protein binding sites is a key challenge in drug design. When a crystallized reference ligand (template) is available, it provides geometric priors that can guide 3D pose prediction.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-03 Noémie Bergues , Arthur Carré , Paul Join-Lambert , Brice Hoffmann , Arnaud Blondel , Hamza Tajmouati

Using generative deep learning models and reinforcement learning together can effectively generate new molecules with desired properties. By employing a multi-objective scoring function, thousands of high-scoring molecules can be generated,…

Facial pose estimation has gained a lot of attentions in many practical applications, such as human-robot interaction, gaze estimation and driver monitoring. Meanwhile, end-to-end deep learning-based facial pose estimation is becoming more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Zhaoxiang Liu , Zezhou Chen , Jinqiang Bai , Shaohua Li , Shiguo Lian

Predicting accurate protein-ligand binding affinity is important in drug discovery but remains a challenge even with computationally expensive biophysics-based energy scoring methods and state-of-the-art deep learning approaches. Despite…

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

We present a deep learning model, dubbed Glissando-Net, to simultaneously estimate the pose and reconstruct the 3D shape of objects at the category level from a single RGB image. Previous works predominantly focused on either estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Bo Sun , Hao Kang , Li Guan , Haoxiang Li , Philippos Mordohai , Gang Hua

De novo ligand design is a fundamental task that seeks to generate protein or molecule candidates that can effectively dock with protein receptors and achieve strong binding affinity entirely from scratch. It holds paramount significance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zekai Chen , Xunkai Li , Sirui Zhang , Henan Sun , Jia Li , Zhenjun Li , Bing Zhou , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Medical images are often more difficult to acquire than natural images due to the specialism of the equipment and technology, which leads to less medical image datasets. So it is hard to train a strong pretrained medical vision model. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Haijiang Tian , Jingkun Yue , Xiaohong Liu , Guoxing Yang , Zeyu Jiang , Guangyu Wang

The majority of machine learning scoring functions used in drug discovery for predicting protein-ligand binding poses and affinities have been trained on the PDBBind dataset. However, it is unclear whether these new scoring functions are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Jie Li , Xingyi Guan , Oufan Zhang , Kunyang Sun , Yingze Wang , Dorian Bagni , Teresa Head-Gordon

Human face pose estimation aims at estimating the gazing direction or head postures with 2D images. It gives some very important information such as communicative gestures, saliency detection and so on, which attracts plenty of attention…

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The field of protein-ligand pose prediction has seen significant advances in recent years, with machine learning-based methods now being commonly used in lieu of classical docking methods or even to predict all-atom protein-ligand complex…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-01 David Errington , Constantin Schneider , Cédric Bouysset , Frédéric A. Dreyer

DNA-Encoded Library (DEL) technology has enabled significant advances in hit identification by enabling efficient testing of combinatorially-generated molecular libraries. DEL screens measure protein binding affinity though sequencing reads…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-16 Kirill Shmilovich , Benson Chen , Theofanis Karaletsos , Mohammad M. Sultan

This paper presents a new method for parallel-jaw grasping of isolated objects from depth images, under large gripper pose uncertainty. Whilst most approaches aim to predict the single best grasp pose from an image, our method first…

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Molecular docking that predicts the bound structures of small molecules (ligands) to their protein targets, plays a vital role in drug discovery. However, existing docking methods often face limitations: they either overlook crucial…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-24 Zizhuo Zhang , Lijun Wu , Kaiyuan Gao , Jiangchao Yao , Tao Qin , Bo Han

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding structures, a task known as molecular docking is crucial for drug design but remains challenging. While deep learning has shown promise, existing methods often depend on holo-protein structures…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-22 Yufei Huang , Odin Zhang , Lirong Wu , Cheng Tan , Haitao Lin , Zhangyang Gao , Siyuan Li , Stan. Z. Li

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

Molecular docking, a key technique in structure-based drug design, plays pivotal roles in protein-ligand interaction modeling, hit identification and optimization, in which accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding mode is essential.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-20 Jintao Zhu , Zhonghui Gu , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai