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Identifying interacting partners from two sets of protein sequences has important applications in computational biology. Interacting partners share similarities across species due to their common evolutionary history, and feature…

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Identifying protein targets for small molecules, or reverse screening, is essential for understanding drug action, guiding compound repurposing, predicting off-target effects, and elucidating the molecular mechanisms of bioactive compounds.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Shengjie Xu , Xianbin Ye , Mengran Zhu , Xiaonan Zhang , Shanzhuo Zhang , Xiaomin Fang

Protein inference plays a vital role in the proteomics study. Two major approaches could be used to handle the problem of protein inference; top-down and bottom-up. This paper presents a framework for protein inference, which uses hardware…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-03-07 S. M. Vidanagamachchi , S. D. Dewasurendra , R. G. Ragel

Proteins play a vital role in biological processes and are indispensable for living organisms. Accurate representation of proteins is crucial, especially in drug development. Recently, there has been a notable increase in interest in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-28 Dan Kalifa , Uriel Singer , Kira Radinsky

The regulation of various cellular processes heavily relies on the protein complexes within a living cell, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of their three-dimensional structures to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. While…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-26 Yuanfeng Ji , Yatao Bian , Guoji Fu , Peilin Zhao , Ping Luo

The trade-off between predictive accuracy and data availability makes it difficult to predict protein--protein binding affinity accurately. The lack of experimentally resolved protein structures limits the performance of structure-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Wajid Arshad Abbasi , Syed Ali Abbas , Maryum Bibi , Saiqa Andleeb , Muhammad Naveed Akhtar

This study evaluates the concordance between RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) and NanoString technologies for gene expression analysis in non-human primates (NHPs) infected with Ebola virus (EBOV). We performed a detailed comparison of both…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-01 Mostafa Rezapour , Aarthi Narayanan , Wyatt H. Mowery , Metin Nafi Gurcan

The capability of accurate prediction of protein functions and properties is essential in the biotechnology industry, e.g. drug development and artificial protein synthesis, etc. The main challenges of protein function prediction are the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-02 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Po-Han Chi , Jia-Hua Wu , Min Sun

In the field of Structure-based Drug Design (SBDD), deep learning-based generative models have achieved outstanding performance in terms of docking score. However, further study shows that the existing molecular generative methods and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-21 Bowen Gao , Minsi Ren , Yuyan Ni , Yanwen Huang , Bo Qiang , Zhi-Ming Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

The biological functions of proteins often depend on dynamic structural ensembles. In this work, we develop a flow-based generative modeling approach for learning and sampling the conformational landscapes of proteins. We repurpose highly…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Bowen Jing , Bonnie Berger , Tommi Jaakkola

Predicting which proteins interact together from amino-acid sequences is an important task. We develop a method to pair interacting protein sequences which leverages the power of protein language models trained on multiple sequence…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-30 Umberto Lupo , Damiano Sgarbossa , Anne-Florence Bitbol

Sampling physically valid ligand-binding poses remains a major challenge in molecular docking, particularly for unseen or structurally diverse targets. We introduce PocketVina, a fast and memory-efficient, search-based docking framework…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-26 Ahmet Sarigun , Bora Uyar , Vedran Franke , Altuna Akalin

Deep neural networks, particularly Transformers, have been widely adopted for predicting the functional properties of proteins. In this work, we focus on exploring whether Protein Transformers can capture biological intelligence among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Fudong Lin , Wanrou Du , Jinchan Liu , Tarikul Milon , Shelby Meche , Wu Xu , Xiaoqi Qin , Xu Yuan

Cotranslational folding depends on the folding speed and stability of the nascent protein. It remains difficult, however, to predict which proteins cotranslationally fold. Here, we simulate evolution of model proteins to investigate how…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-28 Victor Zhao , William M. Jacobs , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Studying the function of proteins is important for understanding the molecular mechanisms of life. The number of publicly available protein structures has increasingly become extremely large. Still, the determination of the function of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Wajdi Dhifli , Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo

One of the most difficult problems difficult problem in systems biology is to discover protein-protein interactions as well as their associated functions. The analysis and alignment of protein-protein interaction networks (PPIN), which are…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-20 Ricardo Alberich , Adrià Alcala , Mercè Llabrés , Francesc Rosselló , Gabriel Valiente

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Keith M. Beardmore , Niels Gronbech-Jensen

Control over molecular scale electrical properties within nano junctions is demonstrated, utilizing site-directed C60 targeting into protein macromolecules as a doping means. The protein molecules, self-assembled in a miniaturized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Elad Mentovich , Bogdan Belgorodsky , Michael Gozin , Shachar Richter , Hagai Cohen

In the recent years, therapeutic use of antibodies has seen a huge growth, due to their inherent proprieties and technological advances in the methods used to study and characterize them. Effective design and engineering of antibodies for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-08 Francesco Ambrosetti , Zuzana Jandova , Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin

Virtual screening performance depends heavily on the chosen docking and scoring methods. Recent AI-based tools such as DiffDock and NMDN have reported strong benchmark results, but their practical utility on realistic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Youssef Abo-Dahab , Xiaoiang Xiang , Joanne Chun , Liang Zhao