Connecting chemistry and biology through molecular descriptors

A Fernández-Torras, A Comajuncosa-Creus… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Through the representation of small molecule structures as numerical descriptors and the
exploitation of the similarity principle, chemoinformatics has made paramount contributions …

Advancing targeted protein degradation via multiomics profiling and artificial intelligence

M Duran-Frigola, M Cigler… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Only around 20% of the human proteome is considered to be druggable with small-molecule
antagonists. This leaves some of the most compelling therapeutic targets outside the reach …

MGraphDTA: deep multiscale graph neural network for explainable drug–target binding affinity prediction

Z Yang, W Zhong, L Zhao, CYC Chen - Chemical science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Predicting drug–target affinity (DTA) is beneficial for accelerating drug discovery. Graph
neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in DTA prediction. However, existing …

Sequence-based prediction of protein binding regions and drug–target interactions

I Lee, H Nam - Journal of cheminformatics, 2022 - Springer
Identifying drug–target interactions (DTIs) is important for drug discovery. However,
searching all drug–target spaces poses a major bottleneck. Therefore, recently many deep …

Chemical representation learning for toxicity prediction

J Born, G Markert, N Janakarajan, TB Kimber… - Digital …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Undesired toxicity is a major hindrance to drug discovery and largely responsible for high
attrition rates in early stages. This calls for new, reliable, and interpretable molecular …

AI for targeted polypharmacology: The next frontier in drug discovery

A Cichońska, B Ravikumar, R Rahman - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
In drug discovery, targeted polypharmacology, ie, targeting multiple molecular targets with a
single drug, is redefining therapeutic design to address complex diseases. Pre-selected …

Active site sequence representations of human kinases outperform full sequence representations for affinity prediction and inhibitor generation: 3D effects in a 1D …

J Born, T Huynh, A Stroobants… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the development of large-scale multimodal
models for virtual screening and de novo molecular design. The human kinome with its …

Comprehensive detection and characterization of human druggable pockets through binding site descriptors

A Comajuncosa-Creus, G Jorba, X Barril… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Druggable pockets are protein regions that have the ability to bind organic small molecules,
and their characterization is essential in target-based drug discovery. However, deriving …

Applications of artificial intelligence in drug design: opportunities and challenges

M Thomas, A Boardman, M Garcia-Ortegon… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2022 - Springer
Artificial intelligence (AI) has undergone rapid development in recent years and has been
successfully applied to real-world problems such as drug design. In this chapter, we review …

[HTML][HTML] TAG-DTA: Binding-region-guided strategy to predict drug-target affinity using transformers

NRC Monteiro, JL Oliveira, JP Arrais - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
The proper assessment of target-specific compound selectivity is paramount in the drug
discovery context, promoting the identification of drug-target interactions (DTIs) and the …