Differentiable biology: using deep learning for biophysics-based and data-driven modeling of molecular mechanisms

M AlQuraishi, PK Sorger - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
Deep learning using neural networks relies on a class of machine-learnable models
constructed using 'differentiable programs'. These programs can combine mathematical …

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 …

CB-Dock2: Improved protein–ligand blind docking by integrating cavity detection, docking and homologous template fitting

Y Liu, X Yang, J Gan, S Chen, ZX Xiao… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Protein-ligand blind docking is a powerful method for exploring the binding sites of receptors
and the corresponding binding poses of ligands. It has seen wide applications in …

How accurately can one predict drug binding modes using AlphaFold models?

M Karelina, JJ Noh, RO Dror - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Computational prediction of protein structure has been pursued intensely for decades,
motivated largely by the goal of using structural models for drug discovery. Recently …

Accelerated rational PROTAC design via deep learning and molecular simulations

S Zheng, Y Tan, Z Wang, C Li, Z Zhang… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have emerged as effective tools to selectively
degrade disease-related proteins by using the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Developing …

FitDock: protein–ligand docking by template fitting

X Yang, Y Liu, J Gan, ZX Xiao… - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Protein–ligand docking is an essential method in computer-aided drug design and structural
bioinformatics. It can be used to identify active compounds and reveal molecular …

Binding affinity predictions with hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural networks

L Domingo, M Djukic, C Johnson, F Borondo - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Central in drug design is the identification of biomolecules that uniquely and robustly bind to
a target protein, while minimizing their interactions with others. Accordingly, precise binding …

CarsiDock: a deep learning paradigm for accurate protein–ligand docking and screening based on large-scale pre-training

H Cai, C Shen, T Jian, X Zhang, T Chen, X Han… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The expertise accumulated in deep neural network-based structure prediction has been
widely transferred to the field of protein–ligand binding pose prediction, thus leading to the …

A hybrid structure-based machine learning approach for predicting kinase inhibition by small molecules

C Liu, P Kutchukian, ND Nguyen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Kinases have been the focus of drug discovery programs for three decades leading to over
70 therapeutic kinase inhibitors and biophysical affinity measurements for over 130,000 …

A high-quality data set of protein–ligand binding interactions via comparative complex structure modeling

X Li, C Shen, H Zhu, Y Yang, Q Wang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
High-quality protein–ligand complex structures provide the basis for understanding the
nature of noncovalent binding interactions at the atomic level and enable structure-based …