Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 10, 2025
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are two important targets in current drug discovery, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the MERS-CoV outbreaks in recent yea...
The rapid development of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods provides new opportunities for innovative drug discovery. While these techniques are widely used in docking organic molecules (drugs) with protein, an evaluation of the per...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Aug 6, 2025
The coronavirus main protease, essential for viral replication, is a well-validated antiviral target. Here, we present Deep-CovBoost, a computational pipeline integrating deep learning with free energy perturbation (FEP) simulations to guide the stru...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Jun 28, 2025
SARS-CoV-2 infection is highly contagious, prompting the World Health Organization to classify it as a global public health emergency. The virus has numerous potential hosts, which complicates efforts for effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatmen...
The papain-like protease (PLpro), a cysteine protease found in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), plays a crucial role in viral replication by cleaving the viral polyproteins and interfering with the host's innate immune re...
International journal of biological macromolecules
Apr 10, 2025
While star drugs like Paxlovid have shown remarkable performance in combating SARS-CoV-2, we still face serious challenges such as viral mutants and resistance. In this study, we employ a computational framework combining molecular dynamics (MD) simu...
International journal of molecular sciences
Mar 26, 2025
In this study, we utilized machine learning techniques to identify potential inhibitors of the MERS-CoV 3CL protease. Among the models evaluated, the Random Forest (RF) algorithm exhibited the highest predictive performance, achieving an accuracy of ...
International journal of molecular sciences
Mar 17, 2025
The classification of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 inhibitors is essential for identifying potential antiviral agents through computational methods. This study aims to develop an optimized machine learning (ML) model using random forest (RF) and molec...
The global impact of SARS-CoV-2 has highlighted the urgent need for novel antiviral therapies. This study integrates combinatorial chemistry, molecular docking, and deep learning to design, evaluate and synthesize new pyrazole derivatives as potentia...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 16, 2025
The global impact of SARS-CoV-2 highlights the need for treatments beyond vaccination, given the limited availability of effective medications. While Pfizer introduced , an FDA-approved antiviral targeting the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro), this st...
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