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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

Accurately predicting the binding conformation of small-molecule ligands to protein targets is a critical step in rational drug design. Although recent deep learning-based docking surpasses traditional methods in speed and accuracy, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Liyan Jia , Chuan-Xian Ren , Hong Yan

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

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

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…

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

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

Molecular docking is a pivotal process in drug discovery. While traditional techniques rely on extensive sampling and simulation governed by physical principles, these methods are often slow and costly. The advent of deep learning-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-25 Kaiyuan Gao , Qizhi Pei , Gongbo Zhang , Jinhua Zhu , Kun He , Lijun Wu

Predicting the binding structure of a small molecule ligand to a protein -- a task known as molecular docking -- is critical to drug design. Recent deep learning methods that treat docking as a regression problem have decreased runtime…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-14 Gabriele Corso , Hannes Stärk , Bowen Jing , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

The field of machine learning for drug discovery is witnessing an explosion of novel methods. These methods are often benchmarked on simple physicochemical properties such as solubility or general druglikeness, which can be readily…

Molecular docking is a crucial step in drug development, which enables the virtual screening of compound libraries to identify potential ligands that target proteins of interest. However, the computational complexity of traditional docking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Zhangfan Yang , Junkai Ji , Shan He , Jianqiang Li , Tiantian He , Ruibin Bai , Zexuan Zhu , Yew Soon Ong

Protein-ligand binding is the process by which a small molecule (drug or inhibitor) attaches to a target protein. Binding affinity, which characterizes the strength of biomolecular interactions, is essential for tackling diverse challenges…

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

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is crucial for rapid and efficient drug development. Recently, the importance of predicting binding affinity has led to increased attention on research that models the three-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Seungyeon Choi , Sangmin Seo , Sanghyun Park

Identifying novel drug-target interactions (DTI) is a critical and rate limiting step in drug discovery. While deep learning models have been proposed to accelerate the identification process, we show that state-of-the-art models fail to…

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…

Predicting the docking between proteins and ligands is a crucial and challenging task for drug discovery. However, traditional docking methods mainly rely on scoring functions, and deep learning-based docking approaches usually neglect the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Yiqiang Yi , Xu Wan , Yatao Bian , Le Ou-Yang , Peilin Zhao

Protein-ligand modeling underpins computational drug discovery and molecular design. Existing protein-ligand benchmarks typically evaluate whether a protein and ligand interact and how strongly they bind, through tasks such as binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhaohan Meng , Zhen Bai , Ke Yuan , Iadh Ounis , Zaiqiao Meng , Hao Xu , Joseph Loscalzo

Molecular docking aims to predict the 3D pose of a small molecule in a protein binding site. Traditional docking methods predict ligand poses by minimizing a physics-inspired scoring function. Recently, a diffusion model has been proposed…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-27 Michael Brocidiacono , Konstantin I. Popov , David Ryan Koes , Alexander Tropsha

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…

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