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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 protein-binding proteins with high affinity is critical in biomedical research and biotechnology. Despite recent advancements targeting specific proteins, the ability to create high-affinity binders for arbitrary protein targets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhenqiao Song , Tiaoxiao Li , Lei Li , Martin Renqiang Min

Motivation: Protein secondary structure prediction can provide important information for protein 3D structure prediction and protein functions. Deep learning, which has been successfully applied to various research fields such as image…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-20 Chao Fang , Yi Shang , Dong Xu

Efficient design and discovery of target-driven molecules is a critical step in facilitating lead optimization in drug discovery. Current approaches to develop molecules for a target protein are intuition-driven, hampered by slow iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Andrew D. McNaughton , Mridula S. Bontha , Carter R. Knutson , Jenna A. Pope , Neeraj Kumar

Understanding protein structure-function relationships is a key challenge in computational biology, with applications across the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. While it is known that protein structure directly impacts protein…

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Protein engineering is an emerging field in biotechnology that has the potential to revolutionize various areas, such as antibody design, drug discovery, food security, ecology, and more. However, the mutational space involved is too vast…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-28 Yuchi Qiu , Guo-Wei Wei

The potential of deep learning has been recognized in the protein structure prediction community for some time, and became indisputable after CASP13. In CASP14, deep learning has boosted the field to unanticipated levels reaching…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-14 Elodie Laine , Stephan Eismann , Arne Elofsson , Sergei Grudinin

De novo molecular design has facilitated the exploration of large chemical space to accelerate drug discovery. Structure-based de novo method can overcome the data scarcity of active ligands by incorporating drug-target interaction into…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-16 Yaqin Li , Lingli Li , Yongjin Xu , Yi Yu

The remarkable success of AlphaFold2 in providing accurate atomic-level prediction of protein structures from their amino acid sequence has transformed approaches to the protein folding problem. However, its core paradigm of mapping one…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-12 Yongkai Chen , Samuel WK Wong , SC Kou

Large-scale Protein Language Models (PLMs) have improved performance in protein prediction tasks, ranging from 3D structure prediction to various function predictions. In particular, AlphaFold, a ground-breaking AI system, could potentially…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-18 Mingyang Hu , Fajie Yuan , Kevin K. Yang , Fusong Ju , Jin Su , Hui Wang , Fei Yang , Qiuyang Ding

Recent advances in protein structure prediction, such as AlphaFold, have demonstrated the power of deep neural architectures like the Evoformer for capturing complex spatial and evolutionary constraints on protein conformation. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Arielle Sanford , Shuo Sun , Christian B. Mendl

The computational prediction of a protein structure from its sequence generally relies on a method to assess the quality of protein models. Most assessment methods rank candidate models using heavily engineered structural features, defined…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-26 Georgy Derevyanko , Sergei Grudinin , Yoshua Bengio , Guillaume Lamoureux

AI-based protein structure prediction pipelines, such as AlphaFold2, have achieved near-experimental accuracy. These advanced pipelines mainly rely on Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs) as inputs to learn the co-evolution information from…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-19 Xiaomin Fang , Fan Wang , Lihang Liu , Jingzhou He , Dayong Lin , Yingfei Xiang , Xiaonan Zhang , Hua Wu , Hui Li , Le Song

Deep learning has deeply influenced protein science, enabling breakthroughs in predicting protein properties, higher-order structures, and molecular interactions. This paper introduces DeepProtein, a comprehensive and user-friendly deep…

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Structure-based protein design has attracted increasing interest, with numerous methods being introduced in recent years. However, a universally accepted method for evaluation has not been established, since the wet-lab validation can be…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-04 Chuanrui Wang , Bozitao Zhong , Zuobai Zhang , Narendra Chaudhary , Sanchit Misra , Jian Tang

The effects of ligand binding on protein structures and their in vivo functions carry numerous implications for modern biomedical research and biotechnology development efforts such as drug discovery. Although several deep learning (DL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Alex Morehead , Nabin Giri , Jian Liu , Pawan Neupane , Jianlin Cheng

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is an essential challenge in structure-based drug design. Despite recent advances in data-driven methods for affinity prediction, their accuracy is still limited, partially because…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Yaosen Min , Ye Wei , Peizhuo Wang , Xiaoting Wang , Han Li , Nian Wu , Stefan Bauer , Shuxin Zheng , Yu Shi , Yingheng Wang , Ji Wu , Dan Zhao , Jianyang Zeng

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

AlphaFold2 (AF2) has emerged in recent years as a groundbreaking innovation that has revolutionized several scientific fields, in particular structural biology, drug design and the elucidation of disease mechanisms. Many scientists now use…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-23 Ragousandirane Radjasandirane , Alexandre G. de Brevern

Composed of amino acid chains that influence how they fold and thus dictating their function and features, proteins are a class of macromolecules that play a central role in major biological processes and are required for the structure,…

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