Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 16, 2020
Over the past several decades, atomistic simulations of biomolecules, whether carried out using molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo techniques, have provided detailed insights into their function. Comparing the results of such simulations for a few clo...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Jan 8, 2020
Drug Design Data Resource (D3R) Grand Challenge 4 (GC4) offered a unique opportunity for designing and testing novel methodology for accurate docking and affinity prediction of ligands in an open and blinded manner. We participated in the beta-secret...
Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology
Dec 18, 2019
Structure based drug designing is an important endeavor in the field of structural bioinformatics. Previously the entire process was dependent on the wet-lab experiments to build libraries of ligand molecules. And the molecules used to be tested to d...
Machine learning approaches are widely used to evaluate ligand activities of chemical compounds toward potential target proteins. Especially, exploration of highly selective ligands is important for the development of new drugs with higher safety. On...
Progress in molecular biology and translational science
Dec 6, 2019
Formation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) dimers and higher order oligomers represents a key mechanism in pleiotropic signaling, yet how individual protomers function within oligomers remains poorly understood. For the Class A/rhodopsin subfam...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Nov 22, 2019
New computational approaches for virtual screening applications are constantly being developed. However, before a particular tool is used to search for new active compounds, its effectiveness in the type of task must be examined. In this study, we co...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Nov 16, 2019
We present the performances of our mathematical deep learning (MathDL) models for D3R Grand Challenge 4 (GC4). This challenge involves pose prediction, affinity ranking, and free energy estimation for beta secretase 1 (BACE) as well as affinity ranki...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Nov 15, 2019
Cathepsin S (CatS), a member of cysteine cathepsin proteases, has been well studied due to its significant role in many pathological processes, including arthritis, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. CatS inhibitors have been included in D3R-GC3 for...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Nov 14, 2019
The computational prediction of ligand-biopolymer affinities is a crucial endeavor in modern drug discovery and one that still poses major challenges. The choice of the appropriate computational method often reveals itself as a trade-off between accu...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 31, 2019
Structure-based drug design is critically dependent on accuracy of molecular docking scoring functions, and there is of significant interest to advance scoring functions with machine learning approaches. In this work, by judiciously expanding the tra...
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