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The field of machine learning for drug discovery is witnessing an explosion of novel methods. These methods are often benchmarked on simple physicochemical properties such as solubility or general druglikeness, which can be readily…

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Molecular docking, a technique for predicting ligand binding poses, is crucial in structure-based drug design for understanding protein-ligand interactions. Recent advancements in docking methods, particularly those leveraging geometric…

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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 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…

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The process of screening molecules for desirable properties is a key step in several applications, ranging from drug discovery to material design. During the process of drug discovery specifically, protein-ligand docking, or chemical…

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Molecular docking is a key task in computational biology that has attracted increasing interest from the machine learning community. While existing methods have achieved success, they generally treat each protein-ligand pair in isolation.…

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The machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques are widely recognized to be powerful tools for virtual drug screening. The recently reported ML- or DL-based scoring functions have shown exciting performance in predicting…

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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…

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Molecular docking is a central method in the computer-based screening of compound libraries as a part of the rational approach to drug design. Although the method has proved its competence in predicting binding modes correctly, its inherent…

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Molecular docking is a structure-based computational drug design technique for predicting the interaction between a small molecule (ligand) and a macromolecule (receptor). Over the past three decades various docking software programs have…

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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…

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De novo ligand design is a fundamental task that seeks to generate protein or molecule candidates that can effectively dock with protein receptors and achieve strong binding affinity entirely from scratch. It holds paramount significance…

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Molecular docking, given a ligand molecule and a ligand binding site (called ``pocket'') on a protein, predicting the binding mode of the protein-ligand complex, is a widely used technique in drug design. Many deep learning models have been…

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Deep learning promises to dramatically improve scoring functions for molecular docking, leading to substantial advances in binding pose prediction and virtual screening. To train scoring functions-and to perform molecular docking-one must…

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Accelerating molecular docking -- the process of predicting how molecules bind to protein targets -- could boost small-molecule drug discovery and revolutionize medicine. Unfortunately, current molecular docking tools are too slow to screen…

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