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Molecular docking plays a crucial role in predicting the binding mode of ligands to target proteins, and covalent interactions, which involve the formation of a covalent bond between the ligand and the target, are particularly valuable due…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-27 Yangzhe Peng , Kaiyuan Gao , Liang He , Yuheng Cong , Haiguang Liu , Kun He , Lijun Wu

Molecular docking is an essential tool for drug design. It helps the scientist to rapidly know if two molecules, respectively called ligand and receptor, can be combined together to obtain a stable complex. We propose a new multi-objective…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-11-05 Jean-Charles Boisson , Laetitia Jourdan , El-Ghazali Talbi , Dragos Horvath

Autodock is a widely used molecular modeling tool which predicts how small molecules bind to a receptor of known 3D structure. The current version of AutoDock uses meta-heuristic algorithms in combination with local search methods for doing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-07 Hojjat Rakhshani , Lhassane Idoumghar , Julien Lepagnot , Mathieu Brevilliers , Edward Keedwell

Molecular docking is a critical computational method in drug discovery used to predict the binding conformation and orientation of a ligand within a protein's binding site. Mapping this challenge onto a graph-based problem, specifically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Mathieu Garrigues , Victor Onofre , Wesley Coelho , S. Acheche

Virtual screening is an early stage of the drug discovery process that selects the most promising candidates. In the urgent computing scenario it is critical to find a solution in a short time frame. In this paper, we focus on a real-world…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Gianmarco Accordi , Emanuele Vitali , Davide Gadioli , Luigi Crisci , Biagio Cosenza , Mauro Bisson , Massimiliano Fatica , Andrea Beccari , Gianluca Palermo

The regulation of various cellular processes heavily relies on the protein complexes within a living cell, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of their three-dimensional structures to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. While…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-26 Yuanfeng Ji , Yatao Bian , Guoji Fu , Peilin Zhao , Ping Luo

Molecular docking is an essential step in the drug discovery process involving the detection of three-dimensional poses of a ligand inside the active site of the protein. In this paper, we address the Molecular Docking search phase by…

This work proposes a GPU tensor core approach that encodes the arithmetic reduction of $n$ numbers as a set of chained $m \times m$ matrix multiply accumulate (MMA) operations executed in parallel by GPU tensor cores. The asymptotic running…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Cristóbal A. Navarro , Roberto Carrasco , Ricardo J. Barrientos , Javier A. Riquelme , Raimundo Vega

SkeleDock is a scaffold docking algorithm which uses the structure of a protein-ligand complex as a template to model the binding mode of a chemically similar system. This algorithm was evaluated in the D3R Grand Challenge 4 pose prediction…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-13 Alejandro Varela-Rial , Maciej Majewski , Alberto Cuzzolin , Gerard Martínez-Rosell , Gianni De Fabritiis

The computational power increases over the past decades havegreatly enhanced the ability to simulate chemical reactions andunderstand ever more complex transformations. Tensor contractions are the fundamental computational building block of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Erdal Mutlu , Ruiqin Tian , Bin Ren , Sriram Krishnamoorthy , Roberto Gioiosa , Jacques Pienaar , Gokcen Kestor

Understanding how proteins structurally interact is crucial to modern biology, with applications in drug discovery and protein design. Recent machine learning methods have formulated protein-small molecule docking as a generative problem…

Hardware accelerators, especially those designed for tensor processing, have become ubiquitous in today's computing landscape. However, even with significant efforts in building compilers, programming these tensor accelerators remains…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Charles Hong , Sahil Bhatia , Alvin Cheung , Yakun Sophia Shao

Nowadays, GPU accelerators are commonly used to speed up general-purpose computing tasks on a variety of hardware. However, due to the diversity of GPU architectures and processed data, optimization of codes for a particular type of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Jiří Filipovič , Jana Hozzová , Amin Nezarat , Jaroslav Oľha , Filip Petrovič

We develop methods for accelerating metric similarity search that are effective on modern hardware. Our algorithms factor into easily parallelizable components, making them simple to deploy and efficient on multicore CPUs and GPUs. Despite…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lawrence Cayton

Publicly available collections of drug-like molecules have grown to comprise 10s of billions of possibilities in recent history due to advances in chemical synthesis. Traditional methods for identifying "hit" molecules from a large…

The complex regulatory dynamics of a biological network can be succinctly captured using discrete logic models. Given even sparse time-course data from the system of interest, previous work has shown that global optimization schemes are…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-22 Joyce Reimer , Pranta Saha , Chris Chen , Neeraj Dhar , Brook Byrns , Steven Rayan , Gordon Broderick

In this work, we propose a deep learning approach to improve docking-based virtual screening. The introduced deep neural network, DeepVS, uses the output of a docking program and learns how to extract relevant features from basic data such…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-22 Janaina Cruz Pereira , Ernesto Raul Caffarena , Cicero dos Santos

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

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators like NVIDIA Tensor Cores offers new opportunities to speed up tensor-heavy scientific computations. However, applying them to quantum chemistry is challenging due to strict accuracy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Hua Huang , Wenkai Shao , Jeff Hammond

Docking is a crucial component in drug discovery aimed at predicting the binding conformation and affinity between small molecules and target proteins. ML-based docking has recently emerged as a prominent approach, outpacing traditional…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Thomas Le Menestrel , Manuel Rivas