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Generative models for structure-based drug design (SBDD) have shown promising results in recent years. Existing works mainly focus on how to generate molecules with higher binding affinity, ignoring the feasibility prerequisites for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-29 Yanru Qu , Keyue Qiu , Yuxuan Song , Jingjing Gong , Jiawei Han , Mingyue Zheng , Hao Zhou , Wei-Ying Ma

Structure-based drug discovery, encompassing the tasks of protein-ligand docking and pocket-aware 3D drug design, represents a core challenge in drug discovery. However, no existing work can deal with both tasks to effectively leverage the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xiuyuan Hu , Guoqing Liu , Can Chen , Yang Zhao , Hao Zhang , Xue Liu

In the field of Structure-based Drug Design (SBDD), deep learning-based generative models have achieved outstanding performance in terms of docking score. However, further study shows that the existing molecular generative methods and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-21 Bowen Gao , Minsi Ren , Yuyan Ni , Yanwen Huang , Bo Qiang , Zhi-Ming Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Traditional drug design faces significant challenges due to inherent chemical and biological complexities, often resulting in high failure rates in clinical trials. Deep learning advancements, particularly generative models, offer potential…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-27 Mahsa Sheikholeslami , Navid Mazrouei , Yousof Gheisari , Afshin Fasihi , Matin Irajpour , Ali Motahharynia

The generation of small molecule candidate (ligand) binding poses in its target protein pocket is important for computer-aided drug discovery. Typical rigid-body docking methods ignore the pocket flexibility of protein, while the more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jonathan P. Mailoa , Zhaofeng Ye , Jiezhong Qiu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Deep generative models are rapidly advancing structure-based drug design, offering substantial promise for generating small molecule ligands that bind to specific protein targets. However, most current approaches assume a rigid protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-19 Xinzhe Zheng , Shiyu Jiang , Gustavo Seabra , Chenglong Li , Yanjun Li

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

Understanding the kinetics of drug-protein interactions is paramount for drug design, yet the field lacks large-scale, dynamic data to move beyond static structural analysis. Here, we present DD-03B, a massively scalable database providing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Maodong Li , Dechin Chen , Zhijun Pan , Zhe Wang , Yi Isaac Yang

The identification and property prediction of chemical molecules is of central importance in the advancement of drug discovery and material science, where the tandem mass spectrometry technology gives valuable fragmentation cues in the form…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yunhua Zhong , Yixuan Tang , Yifan Li , Jie Yang , Pan Liu , Jun Xia

Generating novel active molecules for a given protein is an extremely challenging task for generative models that requires an understanding of the complex physical interactions between the molecule and its environment. In this paper, we…

Peptide design plays a pivotal role in therapeutics, allowing brand new possibility to leverage target binding sites that are previously undruggable. Most existing methods are either inefficient or only concerned with the target-agnostic…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-31 Xiangzhe Kong , Yinjun Jia , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu

Drug repositioning aims to identify potential new indications for existing drugs to reduce the time and financial costs associated with developing new drugs. Most existing deep learning-based drug repositioning methods predominantly utilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Renye Zhang , Mengyun Yang , Qichang Zhao , Jianxin Wang

The cornerstone of computational drug design is the calculation of binding affinity between two biological counterparts, especially a chemical compound, i.e., a ligand, and a protein. Predicting the strength of protein-ligand binding with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-04 Yanjun Li , Mohammad A. Rezaei , Chenglong Li , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

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…

We present TerraBind, a foundation model for protein-ligand structure and binding affinity prediction that achieves 26-fold faster inference than state-of-the-art methods while improving affinity prediction accuracy by $\sim$20\%. Current…

Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize drug discovery. Yet, despite recent advances in deep learning, existing models cannot generate molecules that satisfy all desired physicochemical properties. Herein, we describe IDOLpro, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Erika Lloyd , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

Structure based ligand discovery is one of the most successful approaches for augmenting the drug discovery process. Currently, there is a notable shift towards machine learning (ML) methodologies to aid such procedures. Deep learning has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-12 Marta M. Stepniewska-Dziubinska , Piotr Zielenkiewicz , Pawel Siedlecki

Efficient design and discovery of target-driven molecules is a critical step in facilitating lead optimization in drug discovery. Current approaches to develop molecules for a target protein are intuition-driven, hampered by slow iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Andrew D. McNaughton , Mridula S. Bontha , Carter R. Knutson , Jenna A. Pope , Neeraj Kumar

Accurate drug target affinity prediction can improve drug candidate selection, accelerate the drug discovery process, and reduce drug production costs. Previous work focused on traditional fingerprints or used features extracted based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Amritpal Singh

In the real world, a molecule is a 3D geometric structure. Compared to 1D SMILES sequences and 2D molecular graphs, 3D molecules represent the most informative molecular modality. Despite the rapid progress of autoregressive-based language…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Lei Jiang , Shuzhou Sun , Biqing Qi , Yuchen Fu , Xiaohua Xu , Yuqiang Li , Dongzhan Zhou , Tianfan Fu
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