International journal of molecular sciences
May 14, 2025
Cryptic sites, which are transient binding sites that emerge through protein conformational changes upon ligand binding, are valuable targets for drug discovery, particularly for allosteric modulators. However, identifying these sites remains challen...
Scientific reports
May 14, 2025
The stability of proteins at higher temperatures is crucial for their functionality, which is measured by their melting temperature (Tm). The Tm is the temperature at which 50% of the protein loses its native structure and activity. Existing methods ...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
May 13, 2025
The dissociation or off rate, , of a drug molecule has been shown to be more relevant to efficacy than affinity for selected systems, motivating the development of predictive computational methodologies. These are largely based on enhanced-sampling m...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
May 13, 2025
Machine learning has emerged as a promising approach for predicting molecular properties of proteins, as it addresses limitations of experimental and traditional computational methods. Here, we introduce GSnet, a graph neural network (GNN) trained to...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 12, 2025
While predicting structure-function relationships from sequence data is fundamental in biophysical chemistry, identifying prospective single-point and collective mutation sites in proteins can help us stay ahead in understanding their potential effec...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 12, 2025
The rapid expansion of readily accessible compounds over the past six years has transformed molecular docking, improving hit rates and affinities. While many millions of molecules may score well in a docking campaign, the results are rarely fully sha...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 12, 2025
The properties of biological materials like proteins and nucleic acids are largely determined by their primary sequence. Certain segments in the sequence strongly influence specific functions, but identifying these segments, or so-called motifs, is c...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
May 12, 2025
Molecular surface analysis can provide a high-dimensional, rich representation of molecular properties and interactions, which is crucial for enabling powerful predictive modeling and rational molecular design across diverse scientific and technologi...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
May 6, 2025
MOTIVATION: Understanding the protein sequence-function relationship is essential for advancing protein biology and engineering. However, <1% of known protein sequences have human-verified functions. While deep-learning methods have demonstrated prom...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
May 6, 2025
MOTIVATION: Unraveling the human interactome to uncover disease-specific patterns and discover drug targets hinges on accurate protein-protein interaction (PPI) predictions. However, challenges persist in machine learning (ML) models due to a scarcit...