AIMC Topic: Molecular Conformation

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Benchmarking 3D Structure-Based Molecule Generators.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
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...

Combination of Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Machine Learning Reveals Structural Characteristics of Stereochemistry-Specific Interdigitation of Synthetic Monomycoloyl Glycerol Analogs.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
Synthetic monomycoloyl glycerol (MMG) analogs possess robust immunostimulatory activity and are investigated as adjuvants for subunit vaccines in preclinical and clinical studies. These synthetic lipids consist of a glycerol moiety attached to a cory...

DCGCN: Dual-Channel Graph Convolutional Network-Based Drug-Target Interaction Prediction Method with 3D Molecular Structure.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
Exploring drug-target interactions (DTIs) is crucial for drug discovery. Most existing methods for predicting DTIs rely solely on the linear structures of molecules, such as SMILES or the amino acid sequence. However, these linear features fail to re...

Amortized template matching of molecular conformations from cryoelectron microscopy images using simulation-based inference.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Characterizing the conformational ensemble of biomolecular systems is key to understand their functions. Cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) captures two-dimensional snapshots of biomolecular ensembles, giving in principle access to thermodynamics. How...

DihedralsDiff: A Diffusion Conformation Generation Model That Unifies Local and Global Molecular Structures.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
Significant advancements have been made in utilizing artificial intelligence to learn to generate molecular conformations, which has greatly facilitated the discovery of drug molecules. In particular, the rapid development of diffusion models has led...

Discriminating High from Low Energy Conformers of Druglike Molecules: An Assessment of Machine Learning Potentials and Quantum Chemical Methods.

Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry
Accurate and efficient prediction of high energy ligand conformations is important in structure-based drug discovery for the exclusion of unrealistic structures in docking-based virtual screening and de novo design approaches. In this work, we constr...

Accurate Prediction of ωB97X-D/6-31G* Equilibrium Geometries from a Neural Net Starting from Merck Molecular Force Field (MMFF) Molecular Mechanics Geometries.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
Starting from Merck Molecular Force Field (MMFF) geometries, a neural-net based model has been formulated to closely reproduce ωB97X-D/6-31G* equilibrium geometries for organic molecules. The model involves training to >6 million energy and force cal...

AGDIFF: Attention-Enhanced Diffusion for Molecular Geometry Prediction.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
Accurate prediction of molecular geometries is crucial for drug discovery and materials science. Existing fast conformer prediction algorithms often rely on approximate empirical energy functions, resulting in low accuracy. More accurate methods like...

ConfRank: Improving GFN-FF Conformer Ranking with Pairwise Training.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
Conformer ranking is a crucial task for drug discovery, with methods for generating conformers often based on molecular (meta)dynamics or sophisticated sampling techniques. These methods are constrained by the underlying force computation regarding r...

Conformational Space Profiling Enhances Generic Molecular Representation for AI-Powered Ligand-Based Drug Discovery.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
The molecular representation model is a neural network that converts molecular representations (SMILES, Graph) into feature vectors, and is an essential module applied across a wide range of artificial intelligence-driven drug discovery scenarios. Ho...