Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Aug 21, 2019
In this work, computational compound screening strategies on the basis of two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) molecular representations were investigated including similarity searching and support vector machine (SVM) ranking. Calculations based o...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
May 23, 2019
DNA-binding proteins (DBPs) participate in various biological processes including DNA replication, recombination, and repair. In the human genome, about 6-7% of these proteins are utilized for genes encoding. DBPs shape the DNA into a compact structu...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Mar 19, 2019
Identifying the viability of protein targets is one of the preliminary steps of drug discovery. Determining the ability of a protein to bind drugs in order to modulate its function, termed the druggability, requires a non-trivial amount of time and r...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Oct 26, 2018
Feature selection is commonly used as a preprocessing step to machine learning for improving learning performance, lowering computational complexity and facilitating model interpretation. This paper proposes the application of boosting feature select...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Aug 16, 2018
Advanced mathematics, such as multiscale weighted colored subgraph and element specific persistent homology, and machine learning including deep neural networks were integrated to construct mathematical deep learning models for pose and binding affin...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Jul 10, 2018
We assess the ability of our convolutional neural network (CNN)-based scoring functions to perform several common tasks in the domain of drug discovery. These include correctly identifying ligand poses near and far from the true binding mode when giv...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Nov 13, 2017
We report the implementation of molecular modeling approaches developed as a part of the 2016 Grand Challenge 2, the blinded competition of computer aided drug design technologies held by the D3R Drug Design Data Resource ( https://drugdesigndata.org...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Sep 18, 2017
We present a novel optimization approach to train a free-shape distance-dependent protein-ligand scoring function called Convex-PL. We do not impose any functional form of the scoring function. Instead, we decompose it into a polynomial basis and ded...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Mar 9, 2017
The aim of computational molecular design is the identification of promising hypothetical molecules with a predefined set of desired properties. We address the issue of accelerating the material discovery with state-of-the-art machine learning techni...