Aptamers can be regarded as efficient substitutes for monoclonal antibodies in many diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Due to the tedious and prohibitive nature of SELEX (systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment), the in silico...
Scoring functions are essential for modern in silico drug discovery. However, the accurate prediction of binding affinity by scoring functions remains a challenging task. The performance of scoring functions is very heterogeneous across different tar...
International journal of molecular sciences
Jan 30, 2021
Computational prediction of Protein-Ligand Interaction (PLI) is an important step in the modern drug discovery pipeline as it mitigates the cost, time, and resources required to screen novel therapeutics. Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have recently show...
Many sequence variants have been linked to complex human traits and diseases, but deciphering their biological functions remains challenging, as most of them reside in noncoding DNA. Here we have systematically assessed the binding of 270 human trans...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 26, 2021
Similarity-based virtual screening is a fundamental tool in the early drug discovery process and relies heavily on molecular fingerprints. We propose a novel strategy of generating domain-specific fingerprints by training neural networks on target-sp...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 25, 2021
In the world plagued by the emergence of new diseases, it is essential that we accelerate the drug design process to develop new therapeutics against them. In recent years, deep learning-based methods have shown some success in ligand-based drug desi...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 6, 2021
The α2a adrenoceptor is a medically relevant subtype of the G protein-coupled receptor family. Unfortunately, high-throughput techniques aimed at producing novel drug leads for this receptor have been largely unsuccessful because of the complex pharm...
Predicting the structure of multi-protein complexes is a grand challenge in biochemistry, with major implications for basic science and drug discovery. Computational structure prediction methods generally leverage predefined structural features to di...
Journal of integrative bioinformatics
Dec 29, 2020
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play an essential role in critical human activities, and they are considered targets for a wide range of drugs. Accordingly, based on these crucial roles, GPCRs are mainly considered and focused on pharmaceutical r...
Allosteric molecules provide a powerful means to modulate protein function. However, the effect of such ligands on distal orthosteric sites cannot be easily described by classical docking methods. Here, we applied machine learning (ML) approaches to ...
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