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The accurate screening of candidate drug ligands against target proteins through computational approaches is of prime interest to drug development efforts. Such virtual screening depends in part on methods to predict the binding affinity…

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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…

Prediction of protein-ligand interactions (PLI) plays a crucial role in drug discovery as it guides the identification and optimization of molecules that effectively bind to target proteins. Despite remarkable advances in deep…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-18 Seokhyun Moon , Sang-Yeon Hwang , Jaechang Lim , Woo Youn Kim

Prediction of ligand binding sites of proteins is a fundamental and important task for understanding the function of proteins and screening potential drugs. Most existing methods require experimentally determined protein holo-structures as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-07 Shuo Zhang , Lei Xie

The binding between proteins and ligands plays a crucial role in the realm of drug discovery. Previous deep learning approaches have shown promising results over traditional computationally intensive methods, but resulting in poor…

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Comprehensive knowledge of protein-ligand interactions should provide a useful basis for annotating protein functions, studying protein evolution, engineering enzymatic activity, and designing drugs. To investigate the diversity and…

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Predicting accurate protein-ligand binding affinity is important in drug discovery but remains a challenge even with computationally expensive biophysics-based energy scoring methods and state-of-the-art deep learning approaches. Despite…

Protein-ligand interactions are one of the fundamental types of molecular interactions in living systems. Ligands are small molecules that interact with protein molecules at specific regions on their surfaces called binding sites. Tasks…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-11 Arnab Bhadra , Kalidas Y

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

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…

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Prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is a major goal in drug discovery. Generally, free energy gap is calculated between two states (e.g., ligand binding and unbinding). The energy gap implicitly includes the effects of changes in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-20 Ikki Yasuda , Katsuhiro Endo , Eiji Yamamoto , Yoshinori Hirano , Kenji Yasuoka

Protein-ligand complex structures have been utilised to design benchmark machine learning methods that perform important tasks related to drug design such as receptor binding site detection, small molecule docking and binding affinity…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-26 Rishal Aggarwal , Akash Gupta , U Deva Priyakumar

Protein (receptor)--ligand interaction prediction is a critical component in computer-aided drug design, significantly influencing molecular docking and virtual screening processes. Despite the development of numerous scoring functions in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-22 Haoyu Lin , Shiwei Wang , Jintao Zhu , Yibo Li , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

Despite recent advances in protein-ligand structure prediction, deep learning methods remain limited in their ability to accurately predict binding affinities, particularly for novel protein targets dissimilar from the training set. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-04 Michael Brocidiacono , James Wellnitz , Konstantin I. Popov , Alexander Tropsha

Advancements in AI for science unlocks capabilities for critical drug discovery tasks such as protein-ligand binding affinity prediction. However, current models overfit to existing oversimplified datasets that does not represent naturally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ming-Hsiu Wu , Ziqian Xie , Shuiwang Ji , Degui Zhi

The cornerstone of computational drug design is the calculation of binding affinity between two biological counterparts, especially a chemical compound, i.e., a ligand, and a protein. Predicting the strength of protein-ligand binding with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-04 Yanjun Li , Mohammad A. Rezaei , Chenglong Li , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

Binding affinity optimization is crucial in early-stage drug discovery. While numerous machine learning methods exist for predicting ligand potency, their comparative efficacy remains unclear. This study evaluates the performance of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-30 Nikolai Schapin , Carles Navarro , Albert Bou , Gianni De Fabritiis

Protein-ligand binding complexes are ubiquitous and essential to life. Protein-ligand binding affinity prediction (PLA) quantifies the binding strength between ligands and proteins, providing crucial insights for discovering and designing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Krinos Li , Xianglu Xiao , Zijun Zhong , Guang Yang

We present TerraBind, a foundation model for protein-ligand structure and binding affinity prediction that achieves 26-fold faster inference than state-of-the-art methods while improving affinity prediction accuracy by $\sim$20\%. Current…

Is it feasible to create an analysis paradigm that can analyze and then accurately and quickly predict known drugs from experimental data? PharML.Bind is a machine learning toolkit which is able to accomplish this feat. Utilizing deep…

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