Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Oct 16, 2025
T cells play a key role in adaptive immunity by mounting specific responses against diverse pathogens. Effective bindings between T cell receptors (TCRs) and pathogen derived peptides presented on major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs) mediate imm...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 14, 2025
Pose prediction of ligands to proteins remains a central challenge of structure-based drug design. Although data leakage and generalizability concerns remain, data-driven methods for pose prediction (i.e., based on deep learning and diffusion) now ro...
Co-folding models represent a major innovation in deep-learning-based protein-ligand structure prediction. The recent publications of RoseTTAFold All-Atom, AlphaFold3, and others have shown high-quality results on predicting the structures of protein...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Oct 6, 2025
Protein pockets, or small cavities on the protein surface, are critical sites for enzymatic catalysis, molecular recognition, and drug binding. Accurately identifying these pockets is crucial for understanding protein function and designing therapeut...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 3, 2025
Accurately predicting protein-ligand binding affinity (PLA) is essential in drug discovery for identifying lead compounds. The sequence and structural contexts of an amino acid residue (i.e., microenvironment) describe the surrounding chemical proper...
Structure-based virtual screening approaches like molecular docking rely on accurately identifying and precisely calculating binding pockets to efficiently search for potential ligands. In this paper, we introduce GENEOnet, a machine learning model d...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Sep 25, 2025
The main protease (Mpro) is a critical target in the design of antiviral drugs against coronaviruses, while accurately predicting the binding affinity between small molecules and this target remains a key challenge. In the recent Polaris challenge of...
Microtubules (MTs) play a crucial role in mitosis and are composed of α-/β-tubulin heterodimeric subunits. In eukaryotes, eight α-tubulin and ten β-tubulin isotypes have been reported, each displaying tissue-specific expression patterns. Among them, ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Sep 19, 2025
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play fundamental roles in biological processes and therapeutic development. Accurately predicting PPI binding affinity is critical for understanding interaction mechanisms and guiding protein engineering. Recent ad...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Sep 18, 2025
Protein-protein interactions play pivotal roles in a wide range of biological processes. Determining the atomic-level structures of protein-protein complexes is indispensable for elucidating macromolecular interaction mechanisms and advancing structu...
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