English
Related papers

Related papers: Learning to Align Molecules and Proteins: A Geomet…

200 papers

Protein-ligand binding is the process by which a small molecule (drug or inhibitor) attaches to a target protein. Binding affinity, which characterizes the strength of biomolecular interactions, is essential for tackling diverse challenges…

Drug target interaction (DTI) prediction is a cornerstone of computational drug discovery, enabling rational design, repurposing, and mechanistic insights. While deep learning has advanced DTI modeling, existing approaches primarily rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Feng Jiang , Amina Mollaysa , Hehuan Ma , Tommaso Mansi , Junzhou Huang , Mangal Prakash , Rui Liao

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

The accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is important for drug discovery yet remains challenging for multi-domain proteins, where inter-domain dynamics and flexible linkers govern molecular recognition. Current geometric…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-27 Shuo Zhang , Jian K. Liu

As a necessary process in drug development, finding a drug compound that can selectively bind to a specific protein is highly challenging and costly. Drug-target affinity (DTA), which represents the strength of drug-target interaction…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-18 Zhiqin Zhu , Zheng Yao , Guanqiu Qi , Neal Mazur , Baisen Cong

Accurate prediction of drug-target interaction (DTI) is essential for in silico drug design. For the purpose, we propose a novel approach for predicting DTI using a GNN that directly incorporates the 3D structure of a protein-ligand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jaechang Lim , Seongok Ryu , Kyubyong Park , Yo Joong Choe , Jiyeon Ham , Woo Youn Kim

Predicting how a drug-like molecule binds to a specific protein target is a core problem in drug discovery. An extremely fast computational binding method would enable key applications such as fast virtual screening or drug engineering.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-07 Hannes Stärk , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Lagnajit Pattanaik , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Accurate prediction of Drug-Target Affinity (DTA) is crucial for reducing experimental costs and accelerating early screening in computational drug discovery. While sequence-based deep learning methods avoid reliance on costly 3D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Minghui Li , Yuanhang Wang , Peijin Guo , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Shengqing Hu

Computational models that accurately predict the binding affinity of an input protein-chemical pair can accelerate drug discovery studies. These models are trained on available protein-chemical interaction datasets, which may contain…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-10 Rıza Özçelik , Alperen Bağ , Berk Atıl , Melih Barsbey , Arzucan Özgür , Elif Özkırımlı

Modeling the interaction between proteins and ligands and accurately predicting their binding structures is a critical yet challenging task in drug discovery. Recent advancements in deep learning have shown promise in addressing this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qizhi Pei , Kaiyuan Gao , Lijun Wu , Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Kun He , Tie-Yan Liu , Rui Yan

The arc of drug discovery entails a multiparameter optimization problem spanning vast length scales. They key parameters range from solubility (angstroms) to protein-ligand binding (nanometers) to in vivo toxicity (meters). Through feature…

Accurate prediction of Drug-Target Affinity (DTA) is of vital importance in early-stage drug discovery, facilitating the identification of drugs that can effectively interact with specific targets and regulate their activities. While wet…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-18 Qizhi Pei , Lijun Wu , Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Haiguang Liu , Tie-Yan Liu , Rui Yan

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) leverages the three-dimensional geometry of proteins to identify potential drug candidates. Traditional approaches, rooted in physicochemical modeling and domain expertise, are often resource-intensive.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Zaixi Zhang , Jiaxian Yan , Yining Huang , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen , Mengdi Wang , Marinka Zitnik

Accurate drug target affinity prediction can improve drug candidate selection, accelerate the drug discovery process, and reduce drug production costs. Previous work focused on traditional fingerprints or used features extracted based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Amritpal Singh

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is crucial for rapid and efficient drug development. Recently, the importance of predicting binding affinity has led to increased attention on research that models the three-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Seungyeon Choi , Sangmin Seo , Sanghyun Park

The prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is of great significance for discovering lead compounds in drug research. Facing this challenging task, most existing prediction methods rely on the topological and/or spatial structure of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-28 Yang Zhang , Gengmo Zhou , Zhewei Wei , Hongteng Xu

Accurate drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is essential for computational drug discovery, yet existing models often rely on single-modality predefined molecular descriptors or sequence-based embeddings with limited…

Cold-start drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction focuses on interaction between novel drugs and proteins. Previous methods typically learn transferable interaction patterns between structures of drug and proteins to tackle it. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ziying Zhang , Yaqing Wang , Yuxuan Sun , Min Ye , Quanming Yao

The discovery of novel drug target (DT) interactions is an important step in the drug development process. The majority of computer techniques for predicting DT interactions have focused on binary classification, with the goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Partho Ghosh , Md. Aynal Haque

Developing and discovering new drugs is a complex and resource-intensive endeavor that often involves substantial costs, time investment, and safety concerns. A key aspect of drug discovery involves identifying novel drug-target (DT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Rakesh Bal , Yijia Xiao , Wei Wang