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While accurate protein structure predictions are now available for nearly every observed protein sequence, predicted structures lack much of the functional context offered by experimental structure determination. We address this gap with…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-08 Nasim Abdollahi , Seyed Ali Madani Tonekaboni , Jay Huang , Bo Wang , Stephen MacKinnon

Effective representations of protein sequences are widely recognized as a cornerstone of machine learning-based protein design. Yet, protein bioengineering poses unique challenges for sequence representation, as experimental datasets…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-07 Ana F. Rodrigues , Lucas Ferraz , Laura Balbi , Pedro Giesteira Cotovio , Catia Pesquita

Motivation: 3D structures of proteins provide rich information for understanding their biochemical roles. Identifying the representative protein structures for protein sequences is essential for analysis of proteins at proteome scale.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-01 Boshen Wang , Xue Lei , Wei Tian , Alan Perez-Rathke , Yan-Yuan Tseng , Jie Liang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jiaqing Xie , Tianfan Fu

Predicting protein-ligand binding affinity remains intractable for multi-domain proteins, where inter-domain dynamics govern molecular recognition. Existing geometric deep learning methods typically treat proteins as monolithic static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Shuo Zhang , Rongqi Hong , Huifeng Zhang , Jian K. Liu

Structure based ligand discovery is one of the most successful approaches for augmenting the drug discovery process. Currently, there is a notable shift towards machine learning (ML) methodologies to aid such procedures. Deep learning has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-12 Marta M. Stepniewska-Dziubinska , Piotr Zielenkiewicz , Pawel Siedlecki

Predicting drug-target interaction (DTI) is critical in the drug discovery process. Despite remarkable advances in recent DTI models through the integration of representations from diverse drug and target encoders, such models often…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-30 Zhaohan Meng , Zaiqiao Meng , Ke Yuan , Iadh Ounis

Protein-protein interaction (PPI) prediction is an instrumental means in elucidating the mechanisms underlying cellular operations, holding significant practical implications for the realms of pharmaceutical development and clinical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Jiang Li , Xiaoping Wang

Summary: We introduce RBPBind, a web-based tool for the quantitative prediction of RNA-protein interactions. Given a user-specified RNA and a protein selected from a set of several common RNA-binding proteins, RBPBind computes the binding…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-07 Jeff Gaither , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Ralf Bundschuh

A goal of computational studies of protein-protein interfaces (PPIs) is to predict the binding site between two monomers that form a heterodimer. The simplest version of this problem is to rigidly re-dock the bound forms of the monomers,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-08 Jacob Sumner , Grace Meng , Naomi Brandt , Alex T. Grigas , Andrés Córdoba , Mark D. Shattuck , Corey S. O'Hern

Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) perform essential roles in biological functions. Although some experimental techniques have been developed to detect PPIs, they suffer from high false positive and high false negative rates. Consequently,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Samaneh Aghajanbaglo , Sobhan Moosavi , Maseud Rahgozar , Amir Rahimi

Deep learning approaches achieved significant progress in predicting protein structures. These methods are often applied to protein-protein interactions (PPIs) yet require Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) which is unavailable for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Matan Halfon , Tomer Cohen , Raanan Fattal , Dina Schneidman-Duhovny

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

Computational biology and bioinformatics provide vast data gold-mines from protein sequences, ideal for Language Models taken from NLP. These LMs reach for new prediction frontiers at low inference costs. Here, we trained two…

The cornerstone of computational drug design is the calculation of binding affinity between two biological counterparts, especially a chemical compound, i.e., a ligand, and a protein. Predicting the strength of protein-ligand binding with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-04 Yanjun Li , Mohammad A. Rezaei , Chenglong Li , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

Attention-based models trained on protein sequences have demonstrated incredible success at classification and generation tasks relevant for artificial intelligence-driven protein design. However, we lack a sufficient understanding of how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Erik Nijkamp , Jeffrey Ruffolo , Eli N. Weinstein , Nikhil Naik , Ali Madani

Introduction Accurate prediction of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is crucial for understanding cellular functions and advancing drug development. Existing in-silico methods use direct sequence embeddings from Protein Language Models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Islam Akef Ebeid , Haoteng Tang , Pengfei Gu

Protein binder design is central to therapeutics, diagnostics, and synthetic biology, yet practical deployment remains challenging due to fragmented workflows, high computational costs, and complex tool integration. We present…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-29 Jie Gao , Jun Li , Jing Hu , Shanzhuo Zhang , Kunrui Zhu , Yueyang Huang , Xiaonan Zhang , Xiaomin Fang

The parallels between protein sequences and natural language in their sequential structures have inspired the application of large language models (LLMs) to protein understanding. Despite the success of LLMs in NLP, their effectiveness in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-09 Yiqing Shen , Zan Chen , Michail Mamalakis , Luhan He , Haiyang Xia , Tianbin Li , Yanzhou Su , Junjun He , Yu Guang Wang

Predicting a ligand's bound pose to a target protein is a key component of early-stage computational drug discovery. Recent developments in machine learning methods have focused on improving pose quality at the cost of model runtime. For…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-23 Wojtek Treyde , Seohyun Chris Kim , Nazim Bouatta , Mohammed AlQuraishi