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Protein-ligand binding is essential to almost all life processes. The understanding of protein-ligand interactions is fundamentally important to rational drug design and protein design. Based on large scale data sets, we show that protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-21 Duc Duy Nguyen , Tian Xiao , Menglun Wang , Guo-Wei Wei

Protein-ligand complex structures have been utilised to design benchmark machine learning methods that perform important tasks related to drug design such as receptor binding site detection, small molecule docking and binding affinity…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-26 Rishal Aggarwal , Akash Gupta , U Deva Priyakumar

In recent years, machine learning has been proposed as a promising strategy to build accurate scoring functions for computational docking finalized to numerically empowered drug discovery. However, the latest studies have suggested that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-17 F. Pellicani , D. Dal Ben , A. Perali , S. Pilati

Modeling the interaction between proteins and ligands and accurately predicting their binding structures is a critical yet challenging task in drug discovery. Recent advancements in deep learning have shown promise in addressing this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qizhi Pei , Kaiyuan Gao , Lijun Wu , Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Kun He , Tie-Yan Liu , Rui Yan

Accurate prediction of drug-target binding affinity can accelerate drug discovery by prioritizing promising compounds before costly wet-lab screening. While deep learning has advanced this task, most models fuse ligand and protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Mohammadsaleh Refahi , Bahrad A. Sokhansanj , James R. Brown , Gail Rosen

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…

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is crucial for drug development. Recent advances in machine learning show promising results on this task. However, these methods typically rely heavily on labeled data, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Meng Liu , Saee Gopal Paliwal

Motivation: Protein-ligand affinity prediction is an important part of structure-based drug design. It includes molecular docking and affinity prediction. Although molecular dynamics can predict affinity with high accuracy at present, it is…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-12 Yeji Wang , Shuo Wu , Yanwen Duan , Yong Huang

Molecular representation learning is pivotal for various molecular property prediction tasks related to drug discovery. Robust and accurate benchmarks are essential for refining and validating current methods. Existing molecular property…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Shikun Feng , Jiaxin Zheng , Yinjun Jia , Yanwen Huang , Fengfeng Zhou , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

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

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity remains a central challenge in structure-based drug discovery. The effectiveness of machine learning models critically depends on the quality of molecular descriptors, for which…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Jian Liu , Hongsong Feng

Applying deep learning concepts from image detection and graph theory has greatly advanced protein-ligand binding affinity prediction, a challenge with enormous ramifications for both drug discovery and protein engineering. We build upon…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-05 Gregory W. Kyro , Rafael I. Brent , Victor S. Batista

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-04 Michael Brocidiacono , James Wellnitz , Konstantin I. Popov , Alexander Tropsha

Protein-ligand binding is a fundamental biological process that is paramount to many other biological processes, such as signal transduction, metabolic pathways, enzyme construction, cell secretion, gene expression, etc. Accurate prediction…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-03 Zixuan Cang , Guo-Wei Wei

Proteins need to selectively interact with specific targets among a multitude of similar molecules in the cell. But despite a firm physical understanding of binding interactions, we lack a general theory of how proteins evolve high…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-28 John M McBride , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Tsvi Tlusty

Computational approaches to drug discovery can reduce the time and cost associated with experimental assays and enable the screening of novel chemotypes. Structure-based drug design methods rely on scoring functions to rank and predict…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Matthew Ragoza , Joshua Hochuli , Elisa Idrobo , Jocelyn Sunseri , David Ryan Koes

One key task in virtual screening is to accurately predict the binding affinity ($\triangle$$G$) of protein-ligand complexes. Recently, deep learning (DL) has significantly increased the predicting accuracy of scoring functions due to the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-28 Zechen Wang , Liangzhen Zheng , Yang Liu , Yuanyuan Qu , Yong-Qiang Li , Mingwen Zhao , Yuguang Mu , Weifeng Li

The majority of machine learning scoring functions used in drug discovery for predicting protein-ligand binding poses and affinities have been trained on the PDBBind dataset. However, it is unclear whether these new scoring functions are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Jie Li , Xingyi Guan , Oufan Zhang , Kunyang Sun , Yingze Wang , Dorian Bagni , Teresa Head-Gordon

Predicting compound-protein affinity is critical for accelerating drug discovery. Recent progress made by machine learning focuses on accuracy but leaves much to be desired for interpretability. Through molecular contacts underlying…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-01 Mostafa Karimi , Di Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

Is it feasible to create an analysis paradigm that can analyze and then accurately and quickly predict known drugs from experimental data? PharML.Bind is a machine learning toolkit which is able to accomplish this feat. Utilizing deep…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-15 Aaron D. Vose , Jacob Balma , Damon Farnsworth , Kaylie Anderson , Yuri K. Peterson