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Molecular docking is a cornerstone of drug discovery to unveil the mechanism of ligand-receptor interactions. With the recent development of deep learning in the field of artificial intelligence, innovative methods were developed for…

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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

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

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

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand interactions is essential for computer-aided drug discovery. However, existing methods often fail to capture solvent-dependent conformational changes and lack the ability to jointly learn multiple…

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

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

Molecular docking is a central method in the computer-based screening of compound libraries as a part of the rational approach to drug design. Although the method has proved its competence in predicting binding modes correctly, its inherent…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-01 Eva Kiszka

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-26 Ahmet Sarigun , Bora Uyar , Vedran Franke , Altuna Akalin

Datasets used for molecular docking, such as PDBBind, contain technical variability - they are noisy. Although the origins of the noise have been discussed, a comprehensive analysis of the physical, chemical, and bioactivity characteristics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Ahmet Sarigun , Vedran Franke , Bora Uyar , Altuna Akalin

Determining the binding pose of a ligand to a protein, known as molecular docking, is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Generative approaches promise faster, improved, and more diverse pose sampling than physics-based methods, but are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Alvaro Prat , Leo Zhang , Charlotte M. Deane , Yee Whye Teh , Garrett M. Morris

In drug discovery, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation for protein-ligand binding provides a powerful tool for predicting binding affinities, estimating transport properties, and exploring pocket sites. There has been a long history of…

Predicting the docking between proteins and ligands is a crucial and challenging task for drug discovery. However, traditional docking methods mainly rely on scoring functions, and deep learning-based docking approaches usually neglect the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Yiqiang Yi , Xu Wan , Yatao Bian , Le Ou-Yang , Peilin Zhao

Protein-ligand structure prediction is an essential task in drug discovery, predicting the binding interactions between small molecules (ligands) and target proteins (receptors). Recent advances have incorporated deep learning techniques to…

The accurate screening of candidate drug ligands against target proteins through computational approaches is of prime interest to drug development efforts. Such virtual screening depends in part on methods to predict the binding affinity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ho-Joon Lee , Prashant S. Emani , Mark B. Gerstein

The combination of high-throughput experimentation techniques and machine learning (ML) has recently ushered in a new era of accelerated material discovery, enabling the identification of materials with cutting-edge properties. However, the…

Virtual Screening is an essential technique in the early phases of drug discovery, aimed at identifying promising drug candidates from vast molecular libraries. Recently, ligand-based virtual screening has garnered significant attention due…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-22 Gengmo Zhou , Zhen Wang , Feng Yu , Guolin Ke , Zhewei Wei , Zhifeng Gao

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-02 Yangtian Zhang , Huiyu Cai , Chence Shi , Bozitao Zhong , Jian Tang

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

Simulations of biological macromolecules play an important role in understanding the physical basis of a number of complex processes such as protein folding. Even with increasing computational power and evolution of specialized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Hyungro Lee , Heng Ma , Matteo Turilli , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Shantenu Jha , Arvind Ramanathan