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Protein--ligand docking is widely used in structure-based discovery, but routine studies often fail at the workflow level rather than at the scoring level. Receptor cleaning, ligand preparation, file conversion, box definition, run…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-24 Tieu-Long Phan , Lai Hoang Son Le , Thanh-An Pham , Nhu-Ngoc Nguyen Song , Tuyet-Minh Phan , Tuyen Ngoc Truong

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

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

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

Advancements in AI for science unlocks capabilities for critical drug discovery tasks such as protein-ligand binding affinity prediction. However, current models overfit to existing oversimplified datasets that does not represent naturally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ming-Hsiu Wu , Ziqian Xie , Shuiwang Ji , Degui Zhi

In recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have emerged as promising alternatives for molecular docking, offering the potential for high accuracy without incurring prohibitive computational costs. However, recent studies have indicated…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-21 Eric Alcaide , Zhifeng Gao , Guolin Ke , Yaqi Li , Linfeng Zhang , Hang Zheng , Gengmo Zhou

Motivation: Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is among the most commonly used methods for scrutinizing proteomic profiles in different organs for biological or medical researches. All the proteomic analyses including peptide/protein…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Chunwei Ma

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, 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

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

Predicting the physical interaction of proteins is a cornerstone problem in computational biology. New classes of learning-based algorithms are actively being developed, and are typically trained end-to-end on protein complex structures…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-08 Siddharth Bhadra-Lobo , Georgy Derevyanko , Guillaume Lamoureux

Molecular docking is a major element in drug discovery and design. It enables the prediction of ligand-protein interactions by simulating the binding of small molecules to proteins. Despite the availability of numerous docking algorithms,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-20 Yiliang Yuan , Mustafa Misir

In this work, we propose a deep learning approach to improve docking-based virtual screening. The introduced deep neural network, DeepVS, uses the output of a docking program and learns how to extract relevant features from basic data such…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-22 Janaina Cruz Pereira , Ernesto Raul Caffarena , Cicero dos Santos

Foundation models (FMs) trained with different objectives and data learn diverse representations, making some more effective than others for specific downstream tasks. Existing adaptation strategies, such as parameter-efficient fine-tuning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Benjamin Ramtoula , Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Paul Newman , Daniele De Martini

Protein-ligand binding affinity (PLBA) prediction is the fundamental task in drug discovery. Recently, various deep learning-based models predict binding affinity by incorporating the three-dimensional structure of protein-ligand complexes…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-21 Jiaxian Yan , Zhaofeng Ye , Ziyi Yang , Chengqiang Lu , Shengyu Zhang , Qi Liu , Jiezhong Qiu

Powerful generative AI models of protein-ligand structure have recently been proposed, but few of these methods support both flexible protein-ligand docking and affinity estimation. Of those that do, none can directly model multiple binding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alex Morehead , Jianlin Cheng

We present results of testing of the ability of eleven popular scoring functions to predict native docked positions using a recently developed method [1] for estimation the entropy contributions of relative motions to protein-ligand binding…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly M. Ruvinsky

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

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…

The field of machine learning for drug discovery is witnessing an explosion of novel methods. These methods are often benchmarked on simple physicochemical properties such as solubility or general druglikeness, which can be readily…