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While RNA technologies hold immense therapeutic potential in a range of applications from vaccination to gene editing, the broad implementation of these technologies is hindered by the challenge of delivering these agents effectively. Lipid…

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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small non-coding RNAs that play an important role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. However, the experimental determination of miRNA sequence and structure is both expensive and time-consuming.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-30 Shyaman Jayasundara , Sandali Lokuge , Puwasuru Ihalagedara , Damayanthi Herath

With the development of computer-assisted techniques, research communities including biochemistry and deep learning have been devoted into the drug discovery field for over a decade. Various applications of deep learning have drawn great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wenhao Hu , Yingying Liu , Xuanyu Chen , Wenhao Chai , Hangyue Chen , Hongwei Wang , Gaoang Wang

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short sequences of ribonucleic acids that control the expression of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) by binding them. Robust prediction of miRNA-mRNA pairs is of utmost importance in deciphering gene regulations but has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Byunghan Lee , Junghwan Baek , Seunghyun Park , Sungroh Yoon

Personalizing drug prescriptions in cancer care based on genomic information requires associating genomic markers with treatment effects. This is an unsolved challenge requiring genomic patient data in yet unavailable volumes as well as…

Secondary structure plays an important role in determining the function of non-coding RNAs. Hence, identifying RNA secondary structures is of great value to research. Computational prediction is a mainstream approach for predicting RNA…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-15 Qi Zhao , Zheng Zhao , Xiaoya Fan , Zhengwei Yuan , Qian Mao , Yudong Yao

In recent years machine learning (ML) took bio- and cheminformatics fields by storm, providing new solutions for a vast repertoire of problems related to protein sequence, structure, and interactions analysis. ML techniques, deep neural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-31 Marta M. Stepniewska-Dziubinska , Piotr Zielenkiewicz , Pawel Siedlecki

Machine learning-based medical anomaly detection is an important problem that has been extensively studied. Numerous approaches have been proposed across various medical application domains and we observe several similarities across these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Tharindu Fernando , Harshala Gammulle , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

RNA is a vital biomolecule with numerous roles and functions within cells, and interest in targeting it for therapeutic purposes has grown significantly in recent years. However, fully understanding and predicting RNA behavior, particularly…

Structural prediction has long been considered critical in RNA research, especially following the success of AlphaFold2 in protein studies, which has drawn significant attention to the field. While recent advances in machine learning and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-26 Jiaxing Yang

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of deep learning bears promise for drug discovery and chemical biology, $\textit{e.g.}$, to predict protein structure and molecular bioactivity, plan organic synthesis, and design molecules…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-29 Rıza Özçelik , Derek van Tilborg , José Jiménez-Luna , Francesca Grisoni

Predicting drug-target interaction is key for drug discovery. Recent deep learning-based methods show promising performance but two challenges remain: (i) how to explicitly model and learn local interactions between drugs and targets for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Peizhen Bai , Filip Miljković , Bino John , Haiping Lu

Algorithms for machine learning-guided design, or design algorithms, use machine learning-based predictions to propose novel objects with desired property values. Given a new design task -- for example, to design novel proteins with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Clara Fannjiang , Ji Won Park

Traditional drug discovery is a long, expensive, and complex process. Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are beginning to change this narrative. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of different AI and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Khartik Uppalapati , Eeshan Dandamudi , S. Nick Ice , Gaurav Chandra , Kirsten Bischof , Christian L. Lorson , Kamal Singh

Development of new medications is a very lengthy and costly process. Finding novel indications for existing drugs, or drug repositioning, can serve as a useful strategy to shorten the development cycle. In this study, we present an approach…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-13 Kai Zhao , Hon-Cheong So

Introduction: Artificial intelligence (AI) is exhibiting tremendous potential to reduce the massive costs and long timescales of drug discovery. There are however important challenges currently limiting the impact and scope of AI models.…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-25 Ghita Ghislat , Saiveth Hernandez-Hernandez , Chayanit Piyawajanusorn , Pedro J. Ballester

De novo drug design is a crucial component of modern drug development, yet navigating the vast chemical space to find synthetically accessible, high-affinity candidates remains a significant challenge. Reinforcement Learning (RL) enhances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 R Yadunandan , Nimisha Ghosh

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven methods can vastly improve the historically costly drug design process, with various generative models already in widespread use. Generative models for de novo drug design, in particular, focus on the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-27 Xiangru Tang , Howard Dai , Elizabeth Knight , Fang Wu , Yunyang Li , Tianxiao Li , Mark Gerstein

Despite considerable progress in genome- and proteome-based high-throughput screening methods and in rational drug design, the increase in approved drugs in the past decade did not match the increase of drug development costs. Network…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-14 Peter Csermely , Tamas Korcsmaros , Huba J. M. Kiss , Gabor London , Ruth Nussinov

Drug discovery projects entail cycles of design, synthesis, and testing that yield a series of chemically related small molecules whose properties, such as binding affinity to a given target protein, are progressively tailored to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Paul Maragakis , Hunter Nisonoff , Brian Cole , David E. Shaw