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The first step in drug discovery is finding drug molecule moieties with medicinal activity against specific targets. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the interaction between drug-target proteins and small chemical molecules. However,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-15 Boyuan Liu

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 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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-02 Yangtian Zhang , Huiyu Cai , Chence Shi , Bozitao Zhong , Jian Tang

Accurately determining a change in protein binding affinity upon mutations is important for the discovery and design of novel therapeutics and to assist mutagenesis studies. Determination of change in binding affinity upon mutations…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-01 Wajid Arshad Abbasi , Syed Ali Abbas , Saiqa Andleeb

The field of drug discovery hinges on the accurate prediction of binding affinity between prospective drug molecules and target proteins, especially when such proteins directly influence disease progression. However, estimating binding…

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is critical for drug discovery. While recent deep learning approaches have demonstrated promising results, they often rely solely on structural features of proteins and ligands,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Han Liu , Keyan Ding , Peilin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Dapeng Wu , Shiqi Wang

Motivation: Drug discovery demands rapid quantification of compound-protein interaction (CPI). However, there is a lack of methods that can predict compound-protein affinity from sequences alone with high applicability, accuracy, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-17 Mostafa Karimi , Di Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

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

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…

This study aims to develop a deep learning model for predicting the binding affinity of ligands targeting the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR) family, using 2D molecular descriptors. A dataset of 3,764 small molecules with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-31 La Ode Aman , Aiyi Asnawi

Identifying drug-target interactions is essential for developing effective therapeutics. Binding affinity quantifies these interactions, and traditional approaches rely on computationally intensive 3D structural data. In contrast, language…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-08 Radheesh Sharma Meda , Amir Barati Farimani

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-18 Md Masud Rana , Farjana Tasnim Mukta , Duc D. Nguyen

Molecular docking is a key task in computational biology that has attracted increasing interest from the machine learning community. While existing methods have achieved success, they generally treat each protein-ligand pair in isolation.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-28 Jiaqi Guan , Jiahan Li , Xiangxin Zhou , Xingang Peng , Sheng Wang , Yunan Luo , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

The affinity and specificity of protein-molecule binding directly impact functional outcomes, uncovering the mechanisms underlying biological regulation and signal transduction. Most deep-learning-based prediction approaches focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Haitao Lin , Odin Zhang , Jia Xu , Yunfan Liu , Zheng Cheng , Lirong Wu , Yufei Huang , Zhifeng Gao , Stan Z. Li

A Monte Carlo method is given to compute the binding affinity of a ligand to a protein. The method involves extending configuration space by a discrete variable indicating whether the ligand is bound to the protein and a special Monte Carlo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles F. F. Karney , Jason E. Ferrara , Stephan Brunner

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

Protein-ligand binding prediction is a fundamental problem in AI-driven drug discovery. Prior work focused on supervised learning methods using a large set of binding affinity data for small molecules, but it is hard to apply the same…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-14 Wengong Jin , Siranush Sarkizova , Xun Chen , Nir Hacohen , Caroline Uhler

DNA-binding proteins are a class of proteins which have a specific or general affinity to DNA and include three important components: transcription factors; nucleases, and histones. DNA-binding proteins also perform important roles in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Sokyna Qatawneh , Afaf Alneaimi , Thamer Rawashdeh , Mmohammad Muhairat , Rami Qahwaji , Stan Ipson

Although algebraic graph theory based models have been widely applied in physical modeling and molecular studies, they are typically incompetent in the analysis and prediction of biomolecular properties when compared with other quantitative…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-21 Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

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