Journal of chemical information and modeling
Sep 15, 2022
Molecular surface representations have been advertised as a great tool to study protein structure and functions, including protein-ligand binding affinity modeling. However, the conventional surface-area-based methods fail to deliver a competitive pe...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Sep 13, 2022
The availability of AlphaFold2 has led to great excitement in the scientific community─particularly among drug hunters─due to the ability of the algorithm to predict protein structures with high accuracy. However, beyond globally accurate protein str...
Determining transcriptional factor binding sites (TFBSs) is critical for understanding the molecular mechanisms regulating gene expression in different biological conditions. Biological assays designed to directly mapping TFBSs require large sample s...
Prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is crucial for computational drug discovery. A number of deep learning approaches have been developed in recent years to improve the accuracy of such affinity prediction. While the predicting power of t...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Sep 9, 2022
Water molecules at the ligand-protein interfaces play crucial roles in the binding of the ligands, but the behavior of protein-bound water is largely ignored in many currently used machine learning (ML)-based scoring functions (SFs). In an attempt to...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Aug 30, 2022
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are involved in almost all biological processes in the cell. Understanding protein-protein interactions holds the key for the understanding of biological functions, diseases and the development of therapeutics. Rec...
Accurate prediction of DNA-protein binding (DPB) is of great biological significance for studying the regulatory mechanism of gene expression. In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning techniques, advanced deep neural networks have...
Hydration free energy (HFE) is a key factor in improving protein-ligand binding free energy (BFE) prediction accuracy. The HFE itself can be calculated using the three-dimensional reference interaction model (3D-RISM); however, the BFE predictions so...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Aug 8, 2022
RNA binding protein (RBP) is extensively involved in various cellular regulatory processes through the interaction with RNAs. Capturing the RBP binding preferences is fundamental for revealing the pathogenesis of complex diseases. Many experimental d...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Aug 8, 2022
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) complex molecules play an essential role in immune interactions by presenting peptides on the cell surface to T cells. With significant deep learning progress, a series of neural network-based models have been proposed a...