Journal of chemical information and modeling
Apr 8, 2015
Molecular docking, despite its undeniable usefulness in computer-aided drug design protocols and the increasing sophistication of tools used in the prediction of ligand-protein interaction energies, is still connected with a problem of effective resu...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Mar 22, 2015
Molecular dynamics simulations of protein receptors have become an attractive tool for rational drug discovery. However, the high computational cost of employing molecular dynamics trajectories in virtual screening of large repositories threats the f...
BACKGROUND: Accurately predicting the binding affinities of large sets of protein-ligand complexes is a key challenge in computational biomolecular science, with applications in drug discovery, chemical biology, and structural biology. Since a scorin...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to highlight the state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) techniques in computational docking. The use of smart computational methods in the life cycle of drug design is relatively a recent development that has...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Feb 9, 2015
The pharmacophore concept is commonly employed in virtual screening for hit identification. A pharmacophore is generally defined as the three-dimensional arrangement of the structural and physicochemical features of a compound responsible for its aff...
The study of biomolecular interactions between a drug and its biological target is of paramount importance for the design of novel bioactive compounds. In this paper, we report on the use of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and machine learning to...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Dec 20, 2014
The assessment of binding affinity between ligands and the target proteins plays an essential role in drug discovery and design process. As an alternative to widely used scoring approaches, machine learning methods have also been proposed for fast pr...
In this work, for the first time, a deep eutectic solvent assisted ligand affinity assay was proposed. Several critical parameters affecting the analysis performance were investigated and the optimized DES extract conditions were as follows: the solu...
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry
Apr 22, 2025
Protein kinase C (PKC) is a family of serine/threonine kinases, and PKC ligands have the potential to be therapeutic seeds for cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and human immunodeficiency virus infection. However, in addition to desired therapeutic effect...
Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) is the central conduit for information transfer in the cell. Identifying potential RNA targets in disease conditions is a challenging task, given the vast repertoire of functional non-coding RNAs in a human cell. A potential dr...