Although protein-RNA interactions are crucial for many biological processes, predicting their binding free energies (ΔG) is a challenging task due to limited available experimental data and the complexity of these interactions. To address this issue,...
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Jan 13, 2026
The interaction of proteins with diverse molecular partners, including other proteins, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates, is essential for performing various functions, from signal transduction and gene regulation to immune recognition and cellular tr...
The majority of machine learning scoring functions used in drug discovery for predicting protein-ligand binding poses and affinities have been trained on the PDBBind data set. However, it is unclear whether these new scoring functions are actually an...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 24, 2025
Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities (PLAs) is essential for drug discovery and development. Recent advancements suggest that transforming protein-ligand complexes into heterogeneous graph representations may offer a viable soluti...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Dec 24, 2025
Understanding protein structure and dynamics is crucial for basic biology and drug design. Conventional methods often provide static conformations that inadequately capture protein flexibility. We present PackDock, a framework that integrates deep le...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 23, 2025
Protein-ligand binding affinity plays a central role in molecular recognition and drug discovery, yet accurate prediction remains challenging due to the complexity of three-dimensional interactions. Conventional computational approaches, including do...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 22, 2025
The accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding poses and affinities is central to structure-based drug design. In this study, we first benchmarked three distinct pose generation strategies for data sets from the ASAP Antiviral Challenge 2025: mole...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Dec 22, 2025
We describe peptide mapping through Split Antibiotic Resistance Complementation (SpARC-map), a method to identify the probable interface between two interacting proteins. Our method is based on in vivo affinity selection inside a bacterial host and u...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Dec 19, 2025
Hit-to-lead (H2L) optimization is a critical stage in small-molecule drug discovery, where efficient exploration of chemical space is required to identify promising lead compounds. Conventional H2L workflows rely on iterative synthesis and experiment...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 17, 2025
The accurate identification of drug-target interactions is crucial for shortening the timeline and lowering the expenses of pharmaceutical research, as the discovery of novel drugs remains a highly complex, resource-intensive, and lengthy endeavor. D...
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