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Predicting drug-target binding affinity (DTA) is essential for identifying potential therapeutic candidates in drug discovery. However, most existing models rely heavily on static protein structures, often overlooking the dynamic nature of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Dan Luo , Jinyu Zhou , Le Xu , Sisi Yuan , Xuan Lin

Motivation: The clinical efficacy of antibody therapeutics critically depends on high-affinity target engagement, yet laboratory affinity-maturation campaigns are slow and costly. In computational settings, most protein language models…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xinyan Zhao , Yi-Ching Tang , Rivaaj Monsia , Victor J. Cantu , Ashwin Kumar Ramesh , Xiaozhong Liu , Zhiqiang An , Xiaoqian Jiang , Yejin Kim

Protein-ligand binding prediction is central to virtual screening and affinity ranking, two fundamental tasks in drug discovery. While recent retrieval-based methods embed ligands and protein pockets into Euclidean space for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jianhui Wang , Wenyu Zhu , Bowen Gao , Xin Hong , Ya-Qin Zhang , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Virtual screening can accelerate drug discovery by identifying promising candidates for experimental evaluation. Machine learning is a powerful method for screening, as it can learn complex structure-property relationships from experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Simon Axelrod , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli

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

The primary objective of most lead optimization campaigns is to enhance the binding affinity of ligands. For large molecules such as antibodies, identifying mutations that enhance antibody affinity is particularly challenging due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Alexandra Gessner , Sebastian W. Ober , Owen Vickery , Dino Oglić , Talip Uçar

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity plays a pivotal role in accelerating the discovery of novel drugs and vaccines, particularly for gastrointestinal (GI) diseases such as gastric ulcers, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziyang Gao , Annie Cheung , Yihao Ou

Despite the high accuracy of 'black box' deep learning models, drug discovery still relies on protein-ligand interaction principles and heuristics. To improve interpretability of protein-small molecule binding predictions, we developed the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jingke Chen , Jingrui Zhong , Tazneen Hossain Tani , Zidong Su , Xiaochun Zhang , Boxue Tian

Background: Accurate week-ahead forecasts of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) derived metrics could enable proactive diabetes management, but relative performance of modern tabular learning approaches is incompletely defined. Methods: We…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-05 Simon Lebech Cichosz , Stine Hangaard , Thomas Kronborg , Peter Vestergaard , Morten Hasselstrøm Jensen

Protein aggregation occurs when misfolded or unfolded proteins physically bind together, and can promote the development of various amyloid diseases. This study aimed to construct surrogate models for predicting protein aggregation via…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-10 Seungpyo Kang , Minseon Kim , Jiwon Sun , Myeonghun Lee , Kyoungmin Min

The imperative for early detection of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is challenged by its asymptomatic onset and dependence on suboptimal clinical diagnostic tests, contributing to its widespread global prevalence. While research into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sanjana Gundapaneni , Zhuo Zhi , Miguel Rodrigues

Identification of high affinity drug-target interactions is a major research question in drug discovery. Proteins are generally represented by their structures or sequences. However, structures are available only for a small subset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Rıza Özçelik , Hakime Öztürk , Arzucan Özgür , Elif Ozkirimli

The quality and consistency of training data remain critical bottlenecks for protein-ligand binding prediction. Public affinity datasets, aggregated from thousands of labs and assay formats, introduce biases that limit model generalization…

Given native 2D contact map, protein 3D structure could be reconstructed with accuracy of 2A or better, and such reconstruction is a feasible computational approach for protein folding problem. The prediction accuracy from traditional…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-12 Yuhong Wang , Wei Li , Hongmao Sun , Kennie Cruz-Gutierrez

Current neural networks for predictions of molecular properties use quantum chemistry only as a source of training data. This paper explores models that use quantum chemistry as an integral part of the prediction process. This is done by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Haichen Li , Christopher Collins , Matteus Tanha , Geoffrey J. Gordon , David J. Yaron

Prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is a major goal in drug discovery. Generally, free energy gap is calculated between two states (e.g., ligand binding and unbinding). The energy gap implicitly includes the effects of changes in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-20 Ikki Yasuda , Katsuhiro Endo , Eiji Yamamoto , Yoshinori Hirano , Kenji Yasuoka

Binding affinity prediction of three-dimensional (3D) protein ligand complexes is critical for drug repositioning and virtual drug screening. Existing approaches transform a 3D protein-ligand complex to a two-dimensional (2D) graph, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-31 Yiqiang Yi , Xu Wan , Kangfei Zhao , Le Ou-Yang , Peilin Zhao

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand interactions is essential for computer-aided drug discovery. However, existing methods often fail to capture solvent-dependent conformational changes and lack the ability to jointly learn multiple…

Predicting protein-ligand binding affinity is an essential part of computer-aided drug design. However, generalisable and performant global binding affinity models remain elusive, particularly in low data regimes. Despite the evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Julia Buhmann , Ward Haddadin , Lukáš Pravda , Alan Bilsland , Hagen Triendl

The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of serum metabolites on diabetic nephropathy (DN) and predict the prevalence of DN through a machine learning approach. The dataset consists of 548 patients from April 2018 to April 2019 in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jing-Mei Yin , Yang Li , Jun-Tang Xue , Guo-Wei Zong , Zhong-Ze Fang , Lang Zou