English
Related papers

Related papers: Deep Learning-Driven Protein Structure Prediction …

200 papers

Computational drug discovery provides an efficient tool helping large scale lead molecules screening. One of the major tasks of lead discovery is identifying molecules with promising binding affinities towards a target, a protein in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Liangzhen Zheng , Jingrong Fan , Yuguang Mu

Despite an explosion in the number of experimentally determined, atomically detailed structures of biomolecules, many critical tasks in structural biology remain data-limited. Whether performance in such tasks can be improved by using large…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-30 Raphael J. L. Townshend , Rishi Bedi , Patricia A. Suriana , Ron O. Dror

Data-driven predictive methods which can efficiently and accurately transform protein sequences into biologically active structures are highly valuable for scientific research and medical development. Determining accurate folding landscape…

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…

Understanding how protein mutations affect protein-nucleic acid binding is critical for unraveling disease mechanisms and advancing therapies. Current experimental approaches are laborious, and computational methods remain limited in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-30 Xiang Liu , Junjie Wee , Guo-Wei Wei

Motivation: Protein-ligand affinity prediction is an important part of structure-based drug design. It includes molecular docking and affinity prediction. Although molecular dynamics can predict affinity with high accuracy at present, it is…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-12 Yeji Wang , Shuo Wu , Yanwen Duan , Yong Huang

As high-throughput biological sequencing becomes faster and cheaper, the need to extract useful information from sequencing becomes ever more paramount, often limited by low-throughput experimental characterizations. For proteins, accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-31 Xueliang Liu

The ability to computationally generate novel yet physically foldable protein structures could lead to new biological discoveries and new treatments targeting yet incurable diseases. Despite recent advances in protein structure prediction,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-28 Kevin E. Wu , Kevin K. Yang , Rianne van den Berg , James Y. Zou , Alex X. Lu , Ava P. Amini

Protein engineering is experiencing a paradigmatic shift through the integration of geometric deep learning into computational design workflows. While traditional strategies, such as rational design and directed evolution, have enabled…

Many crucial biological processes rely on networks of protein-protein interactions. Predicting the effect of amino acid mutations on protein-protein binding is vital in protein engineering and therapeutic discovery. However, the scarcity of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-01 Shiwei Liu , Tian Zhu , Milong Ren , Chungong Yu , Dongbo Bu , Haicang Zhang

Deep learning has become a powerful tool in computational biology, revolutionising the analysis and interpretation of biological data over time. In our article review, we delve into various aspects of deep learning in computational biology.…

The capability of accurate prediction of protein functions and properties is essential in the biotechnology industry, e.g. drug development and artificial protein synthesis, etc. The main challenges of protein function prediction are the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-02 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Po-Han Chi , Jia-Hua Wu , Min Sun

The protein design problem involves finding polypeptide sequences folding into a given threedimensional structure. Its rigorous algorithmic solution is computationally demanding, involving a nested search in sequence and structure spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Veronica Panizza , Philipp Hauke , Cristian Micheletti , Pietro Faccioli

Proteins are miniature machines whose function depends on their three-dimensional (3D) structure. Determining this structure computationally remains an unsolved grand challenge. A major bottleneck involves selecting the most accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-30 Stephan Eismann , Patricia Suriana , Bowen Jing , Raphael J. L. Townshend , Ron O. Dror

The advent of highly accurate protein structure prediction methods has fueled an exponential expansion of the protein structure database. Consequently, there is a rising demand for rapid and precise structural homolog search. Traditional…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-01 Yuan Liu , Hong-Bin Shen

G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) are integral to numerous physiological processes and are the target of approximately one-third of FDA-approved therapeutics. Despite their significance, only a limited subset of GPCRs has been…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-26 Garima Chib , Parisa Mollaei , Amir Barati Farimani

Due to the lack of a method to efficiently represent the multimodal information of a protein, including its structure and sequence information, predicting compound-protein binding affinity (CPA) still suffers from low accuracy when applying…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-28 Binjie Guo , Hanyu Zheng , Haohan Jiang , Xiaodan Li , Naiyu Guan , Yanming Zuo , Yicheng Zhang , Hengfu Yang , Xuhua Wang

Designing 3D ligands within a target binding site is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Existing structured-based drug design methods treat all ligand atoms equally, which ignores different roles of atoms in the ligand for drug design…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-14 Jiaqi Guan , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu

The interaction between proteins and nucleic acids is crucial for processes that sustain cellular function, including DNA maintenance and the regulation of gene expression and translation. Amino acid mutations in protein-nucleic acid…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-01 Somnath Mondal , Tinkal Mondal , Soumajit Pramanik , Rukmankesh Mehra

Numerous cellular functions rely on protein$\unicode{x2013}$protein interactions. Efforts to comprehensively characterize them remain challenged however by the diversity of molecular recognition mechanisms employed within the proteome. Deep…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-08 Julia R. Rogers , Gergő Nikolényi , Mohammed AlQuraishi