Auranofin, an FDA-approved antirheumatic gold drug, has gained ongoing interest in clinical studies for treating advanced or recurrent tumors. However, gold ion's dynamic thiol exchange nature strongly attenuates its bioactivity due to the fast forma...
Protein-ligand interactions play central roles in myriad biological processes and are of key importance in drug design. Deep learning approaches are becoming cost-effective alternatives to high-throughput experimental methods for ligand identificatio...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 25, 2025
Machine learning has become an essential tool in computational drug design, enabling models to uncover patterns in molecular data and predict protein-ligand interactions. This study introduces a novel approach by integrating persistence images with M...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 25, 2025
To understand the benefits and drawbacks of 3D combinatorial and deep learning generators, a novel benchmark was created focusing on the recreation of important protein-ligand interactions and 3D ligand conformations. Using the BindingMOAD data set w...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 16, 2025
Scoring biomolecular complexes remains central to structural modeling efforts. Recent studies suggest that AlphaFold (AF) - a revolutionary deep learning model for biomolecular structure prediction - has implicitly learned an approximate biophysical ...
Phenolic pollutants pose a great threat to human health due to high toxicity, whereas existing methods are difficult to achieve the rapid recognition of multiple phenolic pollutants. In this study, we developed a novel machine learning-assisted senso...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Jul 13, 2025
Identifying orthosteric binding sites and predicting small molecule affinities remains a key challenge in virtual screening. While blind docking explores the entire protein surface, its precision is hindered by the vast search space. Cavity detection...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Jul 8, 2025
Mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) have been widely observed in various tumors, such as gliomas and acute myeloid leukemia, and therefore has become one of the current research focal points. Therefore, it is crucial to find inhibitors tha...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 2, 2025
Increasing structural and biophysical evidence suggests that many drug molecules bind to the protein-membrane interface region in membrane protein structures. An important starting point for drug discovery is the determination of a ligand's binding s...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 2, 2025
Accurate prediction of compound-protein interactions (CPI) remains a cornerstone challenge in computational drug discovery. While existing sequence-based approaches leverage molecular fingerprints or graph representations, they critically overlook th...
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