BACKGROUND: Learning molecular representations is crucial for accurate drug discovery. Using graphs to represent molecules is a popular solution, and many researchers have used contrastive learning to improve the generalization of molecular graph rep...
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a critical nuclear receptor that regulates a broad spectrum of physiological functions, including stress adaptation, immune response, and metabolism. Given the association between aberrant GR signaling and various ...
The papain-like protease (PLpro), a cysteine protease found in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), plays a crucial role in viral replication by cleaving the viral polyproteins and interfering with the host's innate immune re...
Galectin-3 (Gal-3) has emerged as a critical regulator of neuroinflammation and a promising therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Nevertheless, the development of brain-penetrant small-molecule Gal-3 inhibitors poses a significant challeng...
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Jun 18, 2025
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is an important tool and has a wide range of applications in many scientific fields, including drug discovery. Herein, focusing on drug discovery, the early compound discovery stage in particular, we discuss some of...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jun 17, 2025
Accurate prediction of drug-protein interactions is crucial for drug discovery. Due to the bottleneck of traditional scoring functions, many machine learning scoring functions (MLSFs) have been proposed for structure-based drug screening. However, ex...
The journal of physical chemistry letters
Jun 16, 2025
Atomic charge is crucial in drug design for analyzing reactive sites and interactions between ligands and targets. While quantum mechanical methods offer high accuracy, they are generally computationally costly. Conversely, empirical approaches, whil...
OBJECTIVE: Alzheimer's disease poses a significant threat to human health. Currenttherapeutic medicines, while alleviate symptoms, fail to reverse the disease progression or reduce its harmful effects, and exhibit toxicity and side effects such as ga...
The nexus of quantum computing and machine learning─quantum machine learning─offers the potential for significant advancements in chemistry. This Review specifically explores the potential of quantum neural networks on gate-based quantum computers wi...
INTRODUCTION: The landscape of drug discovery is rapidly evolving, with natural products (NPs) playing a pivotal role in the development of novel therapeutics. Despite their historical significance, challenges persist in fully harnessing their potent...
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