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Molecular docking (MD) is a crucial task in drug design, which predicts the position, orientation, and conformation of the ligand when bound to a target protein. It can be interpreted as a combinatorial optimization problem, where quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Yunting Li , Xiaopeng Cui , Zhaoping Xiong , Bowen Liu , Bi-Ying Wang , Runqiu Shu , Nan Qiao , Man-Hong Yung

Predicting the binding structure of a small molecule ligand to a protein -- a task known as molecular docking -- is critical to drug design. Recent deep learning methods that treat docking as a regression problem have decreased runtime…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-14 Gabriele Corso , Hannes Stärk , Bowen Jing , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Accelerating molecular docking -- the process of predicting how molecules bind to protein targets -- could boost small-molecule drug discovery and revolutionize medicine. Unfortunately, current molecular docking tools are too slow to screen…

Molecular docking is a key computational tool utilized to predict the binding conformations of small molecules to protein targets, which is fundamental in the design of novel drugs. Despite recent advancements in geometric deep…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-01 Jiaxian Yan , Zaixi Zhang , Kai Zhang , Qi Liu

Molecular docking, which aims to find the most stable interacting configuration of a set of molecules, is of critical importance to drug discovery. Although a considerable number of classical algorithms have been developed to carry out…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-21 Mohit Pandey , Tristan Zaborniak , Hans Melo , Alexey Galda , Vikram K. Mulligan

Molecular docking, given a ligand molecule and a ligand binding site (called ``pocket'') on a protein, predicting the binding mode of the protein-ligand complex, is a widely used technique in drug design. Many deep learning models have been…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-24 Yuejiang Yu , Shuqi Lu , Zhifeng Gao , Hang Zheng , Guolin Ke

Molecular docking, a technique for predicting ligand binding poses, is crucial in structure-based drug design for understanding protein-ligand interactions. Recent advancements in docking methods, particularly those leveraging geometric…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-17 Jiaxian Yan , Zaixi Zhang , Jintao Zhu , Kai Zhang , Jianfeng Pei , Qi Liu

Molecular docking plays a crucial role in predicting the binding mode of ligands to target proteins, and covalent interactions, which involve the formation of a covalent bond between the ligand and the target, are particularly valuable due…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-27 Yangzhe Peng , Kaiyuan Gao , Liang He , Yuheng Cong , Haiguang Liu , Kun He , Lijun Wu

Virtual screening, including molecular docking, plays an essential role in drug discovery. Many traditional and machine-learning based methods are available to fulfil the docking task. The traditional docking methods are normally…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 YuPeng Huang , Hong Zhang , Siyuan Jiang , Dajiong Yue , Xiaohan Lin , Jun Zhang , Yi Qin Gao

Molecular docking is a crucial phase in drug discovery, involving the precise determination of the optimal spatial arrangement between two molecules when they bind. The such analysis, the 3D structure of molecules is a fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Arit Kumar Bishwas , Arish Pitchai , Anuraj Som

Docking-based virtual screening (VS process) selects ligands with potential pharmacological activities from millions of molecules using computational docking methods, which greatly could reduce the number of compounds for experimental…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-26 Wei Ma , Qin Xie , Jianhang Zhang , Shiliang Li , Youjun Xu , Xiaobing Deng , Weilin Zhang

Understanding how proteins structurally interact is crucial to modern biology, with applications in drug discovery and protein design. Recent machine learning methods have formulated protein-small molecule docking as a generative problem…

Molecular docking plays a pivotal role in drug discovery and precision medicine, enabling us to understand protein functions and advance novel therapeutics. Here, we introduce a potential alternative solution to this problem, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Qi-Ming Ding , Yi-Ming Huang , Xiao Yuan

Optimizing the properties of molecules (materials or drugs) for stronger toughness, lower toxicity, or better bioavailability has been a long-standing challenge. In this context, we propose a molecular optimization framework called Q-Drug…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Zhaoping Xiong , Xiaopeng Cui , Xinyuan Lin , Feixiao Ren , Bowen Liu , Yunting Li , Manhong Yung , Nan Qiao

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

Computational docking is the core process of computer-aided drug design; it aims at predicting the best orientation and conformation of a small drug molecule when bound to a target large protein receptor. The docking quality is typically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-25 Mohamed Khamis , Walid Gomaa , Basem Galal

Molecular docking is a key task in computational biology that has attracted increasing interest from the machine learning community. While existing methods have achieved success, they generally treat each protein-ligand pair in isolation.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-28 Jiaqi Guan , Jiahan Li , Xiangxin Zhou , Xingang Peng , Sheng Wang , Yunan Luo , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Molecular Docking (MD) is an important step of the drug discovery process which aims at calculating the preferred position and shape of one molecule to a second when they are bound to each other. During such analysis, 3D representations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Kevin Mato , Riccardo Mengoni , Daniele Ottaviani , Gianluca Palermo

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

The diffusion learning method, DiffDock, for docking small-molecule ligands into protein binding sites was recently introduced. Results included comparisons to more conventional docking approaches, with DiffDock showing superior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ajay N. Jain , Ann E. Cleves , W. Patrick Walters
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