Understanding the fine structural details of inhibitor binding at the active site of metalloenzymes can have a profound impact on the rational drug design targeted to this broad class of biomolecules. Structural techniques such as NMR, cryo-EM, and X...
Machine learning models are revolutionizing our approaches to discovering and designing bioactive peptides. These models often need protein structure awareness, as they heavily rely on sequential data. The models excel at identifying sequences of a p...
Current opinion in structural biology
May 24, 2024
Recent progress in protein structure prediction based on deep learning revolutionized the field of Structural Biology. Beyond single proteins, it also enabled high-throughput prediction of structures of protein-protein interactions. Despite the succe...
Intrinsically disordered proteins have dynamic structures through which they play key biological roles. The elucidation of their conformational ensembles is a challenging problem requiring an integrated use of computational and experimental methods. ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 17, 2024
The atomic partial charge is of great importance in many fields, such as chemistry and drug-target recognition. However, conventional quantum-based computing of atomic charges is relatively slow, limiting further applications of atomic charge analysi...
Current opinion in structural biology
May 13, 2024
Computational approaches can provide highly detailed insight into the molecular recognition processes that underlie drug binding, the assembly of protein complexes, and the regulation of biological functional processes. Classical simulation methods c...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 13, 2024
Currently, antimicrobial resistance constitutes a serious threat to human health. Drugs based on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) constitute one of the alternatives to address it. Shallow and deep learning (DL)-based models have mainly been built from a...
The quality prediction of quaternary structure models of a protein complex, in the absence of its true structure, is known as the Estimation of Model Accuracy (EMA). EMA is useful for ranking predicted protein complex structures and using them approp...
The introduction of AlphaFold 2 has spurred a revolution in modelling the structure of proteins and their interactions, enabling a huge range of applications in protein modelling and design. Here we describe our AlphaFold 3 model with a substantially...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
May 6, 2024
Molecular representation learning can preserve meaningful molecular structures as embedding vectors, which is a necessary prerequisite for molecular property prediction. Yet, learning how to accurately represent molecules remains challenging. Previou...
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