The art and science of molecular docking

JM Paggi, A Pandit, RO Dror - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Molecular docking has become an essential part of a structural biologist's and medicinal
chemist's toolkits. Given a chemical compound and the three-dimensional structure of a …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-based virtual screening of vast chemical space as a starting point for drug discovery

J Carlsson, A Luttens - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Structure-based virtual screening aims to find molecules forming favorable
interactions with a biological macromolecule using computational models of complexes. The …

Structure-based drug design by denoising voxel grids

PO Pinheiro, A Jamasb, O Mahmood, V Sresht… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present VoxBind, a new score-based generative model for 3D molecules conditioned on
protein structures. Our approach represents molecules as 3D atomic density grids and …

PILOT: Equivariant diffusion for pocket conditioned de novo ligand generation with multi-objective guidance via importance sampling

J Cremer, T Le, F Noé, DA Clevert, KT Schütt - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The generation of ligands that both are tailored to a given protein pocket and exhibit a range
of desired chemical properties is a major challenge in structure-based drug design. Here …

REvoLd: Ultra-Large Library Screening with an Evolutionary Algorithm in Rosetta

P Eisenhuth, F Liessmann, R Moretti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Ultra-large make-on-demand compound libraries now contain billions of readily available
compounds. This represents a golden opportunity for in-silico drug discovery. One …

Protein language models are performant in structure-free virtual screening

HYI Lam, JS Guan, XE Ong, R Pincket, Y Mu - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Hitherto virtual screening has been typically performed using a structure-based drug design
paradigm. Such methods typically require the use of molecular docking on high-resolution …

Semi-supervised learning and large-scale docking data accelerate RNA virtual screening

JG Carvajal-Patino, V Mallet, D Becerra, LF Nino… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
RNA-small molecule interactions play a critical role in biological processes and have
emerged as attractive targets for drug discovery. Despite recent enhancements in RNA …