Prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is a major goal in drug discovery. Generally, free energy gap is calculated between two states (e.g., ligand binding and unbinding). The energy gap implicitly includes the effects of changes in protein dy...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 17, 2022
Protein-ligand scoring functions are widely used in structure-based drug design for fast evaluation of protein-ligand interactions, and it is of strong interest to develop scoring functions with machine-learning approaches. In this work, by expanding...
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
May 4, 2022
Evaluating the protein-ligand binding affinity is a substantial part of the computer-aided drug discovery process. Most of the proposed computational methods predict protein-ligand binding affinity using either limited full-length protein 3D structur...
Natural compounds constitute a rich resource of potential small molecule therapeutics. While experimental access to this resource is limited due to its vast diversity and difficulties in systematic purification, computational assessment of structural...
Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology
Apr 21, 2022
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) have crucial roles in various cellular processes such as alternative splicing and gene regulation. Therefore, the analysis and identification of RBPs is an essential issue. However, although many computational methods have...
With the accumulation of ChIP-seq data, convolution neural network (CNN)-based methods have been proposed for predicting transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). However, biological experimental data are noisy, and are often treated as ground trut...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Apr 21, 2022
The identification of promising lead compounds showing pharmacological activities toward a biological target is essential in early stage drug discovery. With the recent increase in available small-molecule databases, virtual high-throughput screening...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Apr 14, 2022
Deciphering the relationship between transcription factors (TFs) and DNA sequences is very helpful for computational inference of gene regulation and a comprehensive understanding of gene regulation mechanisms. Transcription factor binding sites (TFB...
In the living cells, proteins bind small molecules (or "ligands") through a "conformational selection" mechanism, where a subset of protein structures are capable of binding the small molecules well while most other protein structures are not capable...
With the great advancements in experimental data, computational power and learning algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) based drug design has begun to gain momentum recently. AI-based drug design has great promise to revolutionize pharmaceutical ...