Computational approaches streamlining drug discovery

AV Sadybekov, V Katritch - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Computer-aided drug discovery has been around for decades, although the past few years
have seen a tectonic shift towards embracing computational technologies in both academia …

Protein–ligand docking in the machine-learning era

C Yang, EA Chen, Y Zhang - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking plays a significant role in early-stage drug discovery, from structure-
based virtual screening (VS) to hit-to-lead optimization, and its capability and predictive …

On the frustration to predict binding affinities from protein–ligand structures with deep neural networks

M Volkov, JA Turk, N Drizard, N Martin… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Accurate prediction of binding affinities from protein–ligand atomic coordinates remains a
major challenge in early stages of drug discovery. Using modular message passing graph …

DeepRank-GNN: a graph neural network framework to learn patterns in protein–protein interfaces

M Réau, N Renaud, LC Xue, AMJJ Bonvin - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Gaining structural insights into the protein–protein interactome is essential to
understand biological phenomena and extract knowledge for rational drug design or protein …

Learning characteristics of graph neural networks predicting protein–ligand affinities

A Mastropietro, G Pasculli, J Bajorath - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023 - nature.com
In drug design, compound potency prediction is a popular machine learning application.
Graph neural networks (GNNs) predict ligand affinity from graph representations of protein …

Scoring functions for protein-ligand binding affinity prediction using structure-based deep learning: a review

R Meli, GM Morris, PC Biggin - Frontiers in bioinformatics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The rapid and accurate in silico prediction of protein-ligand binding free energies or binding
affinities has the potential to transform drug discovery. In recent years, there has been a …

AttentionSiteDTI: an interpretable graph-based model for drug-target interaction prediction using NLP sentence-level relation classification

M Yazdani-Jahromi, N Yousefi, A Tayebi… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we introduce an interpretable graph-based deep learning prediction model,
AttentionSiteDTI, which utilizes protein binding sites along with a self-attention mechanism …

Planet: a multi-objective graph neural network model for protein–ligand binding affinity prediction

X Zhang, H Gao, H Wang, Z Chen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Predicting protein–ligand binding affinity is a central issue in drug design. Various deep
learning models have been published in recent years, where many of them rely on 3D …

Simple nearest-neighbour analysis meets the accuracy of compound potency predictions using complex machine learning models

T Janela, J Bajorath - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2022 - nature.com
Compound potency prediction is a popular application of machine learning in drug
discovery, for which increasingly complex models are employed. The general aim is the …

Hac-net: A hybrid attention-based convolutional neural network for highly accurate protein–ligand binding affinity prediction

GW Kyro, RI Brent, VS Batista - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Applying deep learning concepts from image detection and graph theory has greatly
advanced protein–ligand binding affinity prediction, a challenge with enormous ramifications …