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In structure-based drug design, accurately estimating the binding affinity between a candidate ligand and its protein receptor is a central challenge. Recent advances in artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, have demonstrated…

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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…

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Despite recent advances in protein-ligand structure prediction, deep learning methods remain limited in their ability to accurately predict binding affinities, particularly for novel protein targets dissimilar from the training set. In…

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Assessing drug-target affinity is a critical step in the drug discovery and development process, but to obtain such data experimentally is both time consuming and expensive. For this reason, computational methods for predicting binding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Elizaveta Vinogradova , Karina Pats , Ferdinand Molnár , Siamac Fazli

Determination of binding affinity of proteins in the formation of protein complexes requires sophisticated, expensive and time-consuming experimentation which can be replaced with computational methods. Most computational prediction…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-14 Wajid Arshad Abbasi , Fahad Ul Hassan , Adiba Yaseen , Fayyaz Ul Amir Afsar Minhas

De novo molecular design has facilitated the exploration of large chemical space to accelerate drug discovery. Structure-based de novo method can overcome the data scarcity of active ligands by incorporating drug-target interaction into…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-16 Yaqin Li , Lingli Li , Yongjin Xu , Yi Yu

The binding complexes formed by proteins and small molecule ligands are ubiquitous and critical to life. Despite recent advancements in protein structure prediction, existing algorithms are so far unable to systematically predict the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-21 Zhuoran Qiao , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Thomas F. Miller , Anima Anandkumar

Peptides play a pivotal role in a wide range of biological activities through participating in up to 40% protein-protein interactions in cellular processes. They also demonstrate remarkable specificity and efficacy, making them promising…

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Protein structure-based property prediction has emerged as a promising approach for various biological tasks, such as protein function prediction and sub-cellular location estimation. The existing methods highly rely on experimental protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yufei Huang , Siyuan Li , Jin Su , Lirong Wu , Odin Zhang , Haitao Lin , Jingqi Qi , Zihan Liu , Zhangyang Gao , Yuyang Liu , Jiangbin Zheng , Stan. ZQ. Li

Machine learning (ML) is a promising approach for predicting small molecule properties in drug discovery. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of various ML methods introduced for this purpose in recent years. We review a wide range of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-25 Nikolai Schapin , Maciej Majewski , Alejandro Varela , Carlos Arroniz , Gianni De Fabritiis

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

The protein-ligand binding affinity (PLA) prediction goal is to predict whether or not the ligand could bind to a protein sequence. Recently, in PLA prediction, deep learning has received much attention. Two steps are involved in deep…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-21 Karim Abbasi , Parvin Razzaghi , Amin Ghareyazi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Machine Learning-guided solutions for protein learning tasks have made significant headway in recent years. However, success in scientific discovery tasks is limited by the accessibility of well-defined and labeled in-domain data. To tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Ria Vinod , Pin-Yu Chen , Payel Das

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to generate 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein targets. Existing 3D deep generative models including diffusion models have shown great promise for SBDD. However, it is complex to…

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Large Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models have demonstrated success in various domains, including general text and image generation, drug discovery, and protein-RNA (ribonucleic acid) binding tasks. However, these models typically demand…

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Protein language models (pLMs) pre-trained on vast protein sequence databases excel at various downstream tasks but often lack the structural knowledge essential for some biological applications. To address this, we introduce a method to…

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

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

Link and sign prediction in complex networks bring great help to decision-making and recommender systems, such as in predicting potential relationships or relative status levels. Many previous studies focused on designing the special…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-04 Chuang Liu , Shimin Yu , Ying Huang , Zi-Ke Zhang

Despite the constant evolution of similarity searching research, it continues to face the same challenges stemming from the complexity of the data, such as the curse of dimensionality and computationally expensive distance functions.…

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