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Protein-ligand docking is an in silico tool used to screen potential drug compounds for their ability to bind to a given protein receptor within a drug-discovery campaign. Experimental drug screening is expensive and time consuming, and it…

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…

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Molecular docking is a core tool in drug discovery for predicting ligand-target interactions. Despite the availability of diverse search-based and machine learning approaches, no single docking algorithm consistently dominates, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Siyuan Cao , Hongxuan Wu , Jiabao Brad Wang , Yiliang Yuan , Mustafa Misir

In drug discovery, molecular docking aims at characterizing the binding of a drug-like molecule to a macromolecule. AutoDock-GPU, a state-of-the-art docking software, estimates the geometrical conformation of a docked ligand-protein complex…

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Virtual screening (VS) is a critical component of modern drug discovery, yet most existing methods--whether physics-based or deep learning-based--are developed around holo protein structures with known ligand-bound pockets. Consequently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Wenyu Zhu , Jianhui Wang , Bowen Gao , Yinjun Jia , Haichuan Tan , Ya-Qin Zhang , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Virtual screening (VS) is a critical step in computer-aided drug discovery, aiming to identify molecules that bind to a specific target receptor like protein. Traditional VS methods, such as docking, are often too time-consuming for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Jin Han , Yun Hong , Wu-Jun Li

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…

We present a simple, modular graph-based convolutional neural network that takes structural information from protein-ligand complexes as input to generate models for activity and binding mode prediction. Complex structures are generated by…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-26 Joseph A. Morrone , Jeffrey K. Weber , Tien Huynh , Heng Luo , Wendy D. Cornell

Protein (receptor)--ligand interaction prediction is a critical component in computer-aided drug design, significantly influencing molecular docking and virtual screening processes. Despite the development of numerous scoring functions in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-22 Haoyu Lin , Shiwei Wang , Jintao Zhu , Yibo Li , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

Accurately predicting the binding conformation of small-molecule ligands to protein targets is a critical step in rational drug design. Although recent deep learning-based docking surpasses traditional methods in speed and accuracy, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Liyan Jia , Chuan-Xian Ren , Hong Yan

Molecular docking, a key technique in structure-based drug design, plays pivotal roles in protein-ligand interaction modeling, hit identification and optimization, in which accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding mode is essential.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-20 Jintao Zhu , Zhonghui Gu , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

Computational approaches to drug discovery can reduce the time and cost associated with experimental assays and enable the screening of novel chemotypes. Structure-based drug design methods rely on scoring functions to rank and predict…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Matthew Ragoza , Joshua Hochuli , Elisa Idrobo , Jocelyn Sunseri , David Ryan Koes

The viability of a new drug molecule is a time and resource intensive task that makes computer-aided assessments a vital approach to rapid drug discovery. Here we develop a machine learning algorithm, iMiner, that generates novel inhibitor…

Small molecule drug design hinges on obtaining co-crystallized ligand-protein structures. Despite AlphaFold2's strides in protein native structure prediction, its focus on apo structures overlooks ligands and associated holo structures.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Xinyu Gu , Akashnathan Aranganathan , Pratyush Tiwary

The work for predicting drug and target affinity(DTA) is crucial for drug development and repurposing. In this work, we propose a novel method called GDGRU-DTA to predict the binding affinity between drugs and targets, which is based on…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-27 Lyu Zhijian , Jiang Shaohua , Liang Yigao , Gao Min

Drug target binding affinity (DTA) is a key criterion for drug screening. Existing experimental methods are time-consuming and rely on limited structural and domain information. While learning-based methods can model sequence and structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Xi Xiao , Wentao Wang , Jiacheng Xie , Lijing Zhu , Gaofei Chen , Zhengji Li , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

Small-molecule foundation models are typically pretrained on standalone molecular data, unlike vision and language models that often benefit from cross-modal or relational supervision. Protein-ligand co-folding provides a molecular analogue…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-25 Hyosoon Jang , Hyunjin Seo , Honghui Kim , Seonghyun Park , Taewon Kim , Yunhui Jang , Sungsoo Ahn

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

This study assesses the efficiency of several popular machine learning approaches in the prediction of molecular binding affinity: CatBoost, Graph Attention Neural Network, and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Oleksandr Gurbych , Maksym Druchok , Dzvenymyra Yarish , Sofiya Garkot

We present a highly efficient molecular dynamics scheme for calculating the concentration profile of dopants implanted in group-IV alloy, and III-V zinc blende structure materials. Our program incorporates methods for reducing computational…

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