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In recent years machine learning (ML) took bio- and cheminformatics fields by storm, providing new solutions for a vast repertoire of problems related to protein sequence, structure, and interactions analysis. ML techniques, deep neural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-31 Marta M. Stepniewska-Dziubinska , Piotr Zielenkiewicz , Pawel Siedlecki

Recent advances in generative deep learning have transformed small molecule design, but most methods lack biological systems context, focusing narrowly on specific protein pockets. We introduce a non-differentiable diffusion guidance method…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-15 Vincent D. Zaballa , Elliot E. Hui

Recent advancements in structure-based drug design (SBDD) have significantly enhanced the efficiency and precision of drug discovery by generating molecules tailored to bind specific protein pockets. Despite these technological strides,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-14 Bowen Gao , Haichuan Tan , Yanwen Huang , Minsi Ren , Xiao Huang , Wei-Ying Ma , Ya-Qin Zhang , Yanyan Lan

Advances in deep generative models shed light on de novo molecule generation with desired properties. However, molecule generation targeted for dual protein targets still faces formidable challenges including protein 3D structure data…

Recently, deep generative models for molecular graphs are gaining more and more attention in the field of de novo drug design. A variety of models have been developed to generate topological structures of drug-like molecules, but…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-16 Yibo Li , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

Deep generative models have achieved tremendous success in designing novel drug molecules in recent years. A new thread of works have shown the great potential in advancing the specificity and success rate of in silico drug design by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Xingang Peng , Shitong Luo , Jiaqi Guan , Qi Xie , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Recently, 3D generative models have shown promising performances in structure-based drug design by learning to generate ligands given target binding sites. However, only modeling the target-ligand distribution can hardly fulfill one of the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-22 Xiangxin Zhou , Xiwei Cheng , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu

We present VoxBind, a new score-based generative model for 3D molecules conditioned on protein structures. Our approach represents molecules as 3D atomic density grids and leverages a 3D voxel-denoising network for learning and generation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Arian Jamasb , Omar Mahmood , Vishnu Sresht , Saeed Saremi

Proteins are the fundamental macromolecules that play diverse and crucial roles in all living matter and have tremendous implications in healthcare, manufacturing, and biotechnology. Their functions are largely determined by the sequences…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-17 Boqiao Lai

A fundamental problem in drug discovery is to design molecules that bind to specific proteins. To tackle this problem using machine learning methods, here we propose a novel and effective framework, known as GraphBP, to generate 3D…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-31 Meng Liu , Youzhi Luo , Kanji Uchino , Koji Maruhashi , Shuiwang Ji

Peptide-based drugs can bind to protein interaction sites that small molecules often cannot, and are easier to produce than large protein drugs. However, designing effective peptide binders is difficult. A typical peptide has an enormous…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-19 Xiaoqiong Xia , Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

Structure-based and ligand-based computational drug design have traditionally relied on disjoint data sources and modeling assumptions, limiting their joint use at scale. In this work, we introduce Contrastive Geometric Learning for Unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lisa Schneckenreiter , Sohvi Luukkonen , Lukas Friedrich , Daniel Kuhn , Günter Klambauer

Proteins perform their biological functions through three-dimensional structures encoded by amino acid sequences, and ligand-binding protein co-design requires models that generate sequence-structure compatible proteins under explicit…

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Solving medical imaging data scarcity through semantic image generation has attracted growing attention in recent years. However, existing generative models mainly focus on synthesizing whole-organ or large-tissue structures, showing…

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Ligand-based drug design aims to identify novel drug candidates of similar shapes with known active molecules. In this paper, we formulated an in silico shape-conditioned molecule generation problem to generate 3D molecule structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Ziqi Chen , Bo Peng , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

Predicting how a drug-like molecule binds to a specific protein target is a core problem in drug discovery. An extremely fast computational binding method would enable key applications such as fast virtual screening or drug engineering.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-07 Hannes Stärk , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Lagnajit Pattanaik , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Recently, deep learning has made rapid progress in antibody design, which plays a key role in the advancement of therapeutics. A dominant paradigm is to train a model to jointly generate the antibody sequence and the structure as a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-20 Nayoung Kim , Minsu Kim , Sungsoo Ahn , Jinkyoo Park

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of deep learning bears promise for drug discovery and chemical biology, $\textit{e.g.}$, to predict protein structure and molecular bioactivity, plan organic synthesis, and design molecules…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-29 Rıza Özçelik , Derek van Tilborg , José Jiménez-Luna , Francesca Grisoni

Generative models for structure-based molecular design hold significant promise for drug discovery, with the potential to speed up the hit-to-lead development cycle, while improving the quality of drug candidates and reducing costs. Data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-25 Lucian Chan , Rajendra Kumar , Marcel Verdonk , Carl Poelking