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Molecular docking (MD) is a crucial task in drug design, which predicts the position, orientation, and conformation of the ligand when bound to a target protein. It can be interpreted as a combinatorial optimization problem, where quantum…

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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 major element in drug discovery and design. It enables the prediction of ligand-protein interactions by simulating the binding of small molecules to proteins. Despite the availability of numerous docking algorithms,…

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Molecular docking is an important tool for structure-based drug design, accelerating the efficiency of drug development. Complex and dynamic binding processes between proteins and small molecules require searching and sampling over a wide…

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Molecular docking is an essential step in the drug discovery process involving the detection of three-dimensional poses of a ligand inside the active site of the protein. In this paper, we address the Molecular Docking search phase by…

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

Molecular docking plays a pivotal role in drug discovery and precision medicine, enabling us to understand protein functions and advance novel therapeutics. Here, we introduce a potential alternative solution to this problem, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Qi-Ming Ding , Yi-Ming Huang , Xiao Yuan

Molecular docking is a key computational tool utilized to predict the binding conformations of small molecules to protein targets, which is fundamental in the design of novel drugs. Despite recent advancements in geometric deep…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-01 Jiaxian Yan , Zaixi Zhang , Kai Zhang , Qi Liu

Molecular docking is a critical computational strategy in drug design and discovery, but the complex diversity of biomolecular structures and flexible binding conformations create an enormous search space that challenges conventional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Yihan He , Ming-Chun Hong , Qiming Ding , Chih-Sheng Lin , Chih-Ming Lai , Chao Fang , Xiao Gong , Tuo-Hung Hou , Gengchiau Liang

Molecular docking, which aims to find the most stable interacting configuration of a set of molecules, is of critical importance to drug discovery. Although a considerable number of classical algorithms have been developed to carry out…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-21 Mohit Pandey , Tristan Zaborniak , Hans Melo , Alexey Galda , Vikram K. Mulligan

Molecular docking is a critical process for drug discovery and challenging due to the complexity and size of biomolecular systems, where the optimal binding configuration of a drug to a target protein is determined. Hybrid classical-quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Christos Papalitsas , Yanfei Guan , Shreyas Waghe , Athanasios Liakos , Ioannis Balatsos , Vassilios Pantazopoulos

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

Molecular docking is a crucial phase in drug discovery, involving the precise determination of the optimal spatial arrangement between two molecules when they bind. The such analysis, the 3D structure of molecules is a fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Arit Kumar Bishwas , Arish Pitchai , Anuraj Som

Molecular computing promises massive parallelization to explore solution spaces, but so far practical implementations remain limited due to off-target binding and exponential proliferation of competing structures. Here, we investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-26 Erin Crawley , Qian-Ze Zhu , Michael P. Brenner

Molecular Docking (MD) is an important step of the drug discovery process which aims at calculating the preferred position and shape of one molecule to a second when they are bound to each other. During such analysis, 3D representations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Kevin Mato , Riccardo Mengoni , Daniele Ottaviani , Gianluca Palermo

Quantum heuristics have shown promise in solving various optimization problems, including lattice protein folding. Equally relevant is the inverse problem, protein design, where one seeks sequences that fold to a given target structure. The…

Docking is a crucial component in drug discovery aimed at predicting the binding conformation and affinity between small molecules and target proteins. ML-based docking has recently emerged as a prominent approach, outpacing traditional…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Thomas Le Menestrel , Manuel Rivas

Molecular docking plays a crucial role in predicting the binding mode of ligands to target proteins, and covalent interactions, which involve the formation of a covalent bond between the ligand and the target, are particularly valuable due…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-27 Yangzhe Peng , Kaiyuan Gao , Liang He , Yuheng Cong , Haiguang Liu , Kun He , Lijun Wu

In drug discovery, molecular docking is the task in charge of estimating the position of a molecule when interacting with the docking site. This task is usually used to perform screening of a large library of molecules, in the early phase…

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