Accurate prediction of peptide binding affinity to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins has the potential to design better therapeutic vaccines. Previous work has shown that pan-specific prediction algorithms can achieve better predict...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 16, 2021
Efficient molecular featurization is one of the major issues for machine learning models in drug design. Here, we propose a persistent Ricci curvature (PRC), in particular, Ollivier PRC (OPRC), for the molecular featurization and feature engineering,...
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) is highly participated in regulating diabetes mellitus (DM), and inhibitors of DPP4 may act as potential DM drugs. Therefore, we performed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) protocol to screen and validate the potentia...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Mar 9, 2021
Free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFAR1 or GPR40) has attracted attention for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, and various small-molecule agonists have been developed. However, most FFAR1 agonists as well as endogenous ligands, such as linoleic a...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Mar 8, 2021
Macrocycles, including macrocyclic peptides, have shown promise for targeting challenging protein-protein interactions (PPIs). One PPI of high interest is between Kelch-like ECH-Associated Protein-1 (KEAP1) and Nuclear Factor (Erythroid-derived 2)-li...
Substances that can modify the androgen receptor pathway in humans and animals are entering the environment and food chain with the proven ability to disrupt hormonal systems and leading to toxicity and adverse effects on reproduction, brain developm...
Interactions with RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are integral to RNA function and cellular regulation, and dynamically reflect specific cellular conditions. However, presently available tools for predicting RBP-RNA interactions employ RNA sequence and/o...
Deep learning has emerged as a revolutionary technology for protein residue-residue contact prediction since the 2012 CASP10 competition. Considerable advancements in the predictive power of the deep learning-based contact predictions have been achie...
Biases in data used to train machine learning (ML) models can inflate their prediction performance and confound our understanding of how and what they learn. Although biases are common in biological data, systematic auditing of ML models to identify ...
Journal of molecular graphics & modelling
Feb 9, 2021
Voxel-based 3D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to predict protein-ligand binding affinity. However, the memory usage and computation cost of these voxel-based approaches increase cubically with respect to spatial resolution and...