Current opinion in structural biology
Mar 12, 2025
Recent years have seen tremendous developments in the use of machine learning models to link amino-acid sequence, structure, and function of folded proteins. These methods are, however, rarely applicable to the wide range of proteins and sequences th...
Current opinion in structural biology
Feb 24, 2025
Structure-based drug discovery is a fundamental approach in modern drug development, leveraging computational models to predict protein-ligand interactions. AI-driven methodologies are significantly improving key aspects of the field, including ligan...
Current opinion in structural biology
Feb 21, 2025
Large Language Models for proteins, namely protein Language Models (pLMs), have begun to provide an important alternative to capturing the information encoded in a protein sequence in computers. Arguably, pLMs have advanced importantly to understandi...
Current opinion in structural biology
Feb 20, 2025
Deep generative models that learn from the distribution of natural protein sequences and structures may enable the design of new proteins with valuable functions. While the majority of today's models focus on generating either sequences or structures...
Current opinion in structural biology
Feb 18, 2025
Fragment-based drug discovery is a technique that finds potent binding fragments to the binding hotspots and makes them a hit compound. The combination of fragments allows us to explore the large chemical space. Thus, it becomes an effective methodol...
Current opinion in structural biology
Feb 10, 2025
Predicting RNA structures from sequences with computational approaches is of vital importance in RNA biology considering the high costs of experimental determination. AI methods have revolutionized this field in recent years, enabling RNA structure p...
This review highlights recent advances in AI-driven methods for generating Boltzmann-weighted structural ensembles, which are crucial for understanding biomolecular dynamics and drug discovery. With the rise of deep learning models such as AlphaFold2...
Protein-ligand structure prediction methods, aiming to predict the three-dimensional complex structure and binding energy of a compound and target protein, are essential in many structure-based drug discovery pipelines, including virtual screening an...
Current opinion in structural biology
Jan 28, 2025
Recent progress and development of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) techniques have enabled addressing complex biomolecular problems. AI/ML models learn the underlying distribution of data they are trained on and when exposed to n...
Current opinion in structural biology
Jan 27, 2025
Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) has revolutionized structural biology by enabling the determination of macromolecular structures that were challenging to study with conventional methods. Processing cryo-EM data involves several computational steps...