MOTIVATION: Interactions between proteins and peptides influence biological functions. Predicting such bio-molecular interactions can lead to faster disease prevention and help in drug discovery. Experimental methods for determining protein-peptide b...
In recent years machine learning (ML) took bio- and cheminformatics fields by storm, providing new solutions for a vast repertoire of problems related to protein sequence, structure, and interactions analysis. ML techniques, deep neural networks espe...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 18, 2020
Protein pocket matching, or binding site comparison, is of importance in drug discovery. Identification of similar binding pockets can help guide efforts for hit-finding, understanding polypharmacology, and characterization of protein function. The d...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Mar 17, 2020
Scoring functions are routinely deployed in structure-based drug design to quantify the potential for protein-ligand (PL) complex formation. Here, we present a new scoring function Bappl+ that is designed to predict the binding affinities of non-meta...
Structural information about protein-protein interactions, often missing at the interactome scale, is important for mechanistic understanding of cells and rational discovery of therapeutics. Protein docking provides a computational alternative for su...
We show that machine learning can pinpoint features distinguishing inactive from active states in proteins, in particular identifying key ligand binding site flexibility transitions in GPCRs that are triggered by biologically active ligands. Our anal...
Unsupervised machine learning that can discover novel knowledge from big sequence data without prior knowledge or particular models is highly desirable for current genome study. We previously established a batch-learning self-organizing map (BLSOM) f...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 11, 2020
Accurate protein druggability predictions are important for the selection of drug targets in the early stages of drug discovery. Because of the flexible nature of proteins, the druggability of a binding pocket may vary due to conformational changes. ...
The intricate details of how proteins bind to proteins, DNA, and RNA are crucial for the understanding of almost all biological processes. Disease-causing sequence variants often affect binding residues. Here, we described a new, comprehensive system...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 3, 2020
We present a simple, modular graph-based convolutional neural network that takes structural information from protein-ligand complexes as input to generate models for activity and binding mode prediction. Complex structures are generated by a standard...