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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…

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

Gaussian Boson Samplers are photonic quantum devices with the potential to perform tasks that are intractable for classical systems. As with other near-term quantum technologies, an outstanding challenge is to identify specific problems of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-29 Leonardo Banchi , Mark Fingerhuth , Tomas Babej , Christopher Ing , Juan Miguel Arrazola

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…

Designing compounds with desired properties is a key element of the drug discovery process. However, measuring progress in the field has been challenging due to the lack of realistic retrospective benchmarks, and the large cost of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-16 Tobiasz Cieplinski , Tomasz Danel , Sabina Podlewska , Stanislaw Jastrzebski

Selecting an effective docking algorithm is highly context-dependent, and no single method performs reliably across structural, chemical, or protocol regimes. We introduce MolAS, a lightweight algorithm selection system that predicts…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-03 Jiabao Brad Wang , Siyuan Cao , Hongxuan Wu , Yiliang Yuan , Mustafa Misir

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…

The generation of small molecule candidate (ligand) binding poses in its target protein pocket is important for computer-aided drug discovery. Typical rigid-body docking methods ignore the pocket flexibility of protein, while the more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jonathan P. Mailoa , Zhaofeng Ye , Jiezhong Qiu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Deep learning promises to dramatically improve scoring functions for molecular docking, leading to substantial advances in binding pose prediction and virtual screening. To train scoring functions-and to perform molecular docking-one must…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-04 Patricia Suriana , Ron O. Dror

Sampling physically valid ligand-binding poses remains a major challenge in molecular docking, particularly for unseen or structurally diverse targets. We introduce PocketVina, a fast and memory-efficient, search-based docking framework…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-26 Ahmet Sarigun , Bora Uyar , Vedran Franke , Altuna Akalin

Understanding the structure of the protein-ligand complex is crucial to drug development. Existing virtual structure measurement and screening methods are dominated by docking and its derived methods combined with deep learning. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Kelei He , Tiejun Dong , Jinhui Wu , Junfeng Zhang

Docking is an important tool in computational drug discovery that aims to predict the binding pose of a ligand to a target protein through a combination of pose scoring and optimization. A scoring function that is differentiable with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-23 Matthew Ragoza , Lillian Turner , David Ryan Koes

Computational docking is the core process of computer-aided drug design; it aims at predicting the best orientation and conformation of a small drug molecule when bound to a target large protein receptor. The docking quality is typically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-25 Mohamed Khamis , Walid Gomaa , Basem Galal

Accelerating molecular docking -- the process of predicting how molecules bind to protein targets -- could boost small-molecule drug discovery and revolutionize medicine. Unfortunately, current molecular docking tools are too slow to screen…

The drug discovery process involves several tasks to be performed in vivo, in vitro and in silico. Molecular docking is a task typically performed in silico. It aims at finding the three-dimensional pose of a given molecule when it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Davide Gadioli , Gianluca Palermo , Stefano Cherubin , Emanuele Vitali , Giovanni Agosta , Candida Manelfi , Andrea R. Beccari , Carlo Cavazzoni , Nico Sanna , Cristina Silvano

This paper presents the methods that have participated in the SHREC 2022 contest on protein-ligand binding site recognition. The prediction of protein-ligand binding regions is an active research domain in computational biophysics and…

Virtual screening, including molecular docking, plays an essential role in drug discovery. Many traditional and machine-learning based methods are available to fulfil the docking task. The traditional docking methods are normally…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 YuPeng Huang , Hong Zhang , Siyuan Jiang , Dajiong Yue , Xiaohan Lin , Jun Zhang , Yi Qin Gao

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

Prediction of protein-ligand complexes for flexible proteins remains still a challenging problem in computational structural biology and drug design. Here we present two novel deep neural network approaches with significant improvement in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-28 Amr H. Mahmoud , Jonas F. Lill , Markus A. Lill

We explored the Protein DataBank (PDB) to collect protein-ssDNA structures and create a multiconformational docking benchmark including both bound and unbound protein structures. Due to ssDNA high flexibility when not bound, no ssDNA…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-21 Dominique Mias-Lucquin , Isaure Chauvot de Beauchene