Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 16, 2025
Scoring biomolecular complexes remains central to structural modeling efforts. Recent studies suggest that AlphaFold (AF) - a revolutionary deep learning model for biomolecular structure prediction - has implicitly learned an approximate biophysical ...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jul 14, 2025
In this study, we propose a Kernel-PCA model designed to capture structure-function relationships in a protein. This model also enables the ranking of reaction coordinates according to their impact on protein properties. By leveraging machine learnin...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Jul 13, 2025
Identifying orthosteric binding sites and predicting small molecule affinities remains a key challenge in virtual screening. While blind docking explores the entire protein surface, its precision is hindered by the vast search space. Cavity detection...
BACKGROUND: Predicting protein structural similarity and detecting homologous sequences remain fundamental and challenging tasks in computational biology. Accurate identification of structural homologs enables function inference for newly discovered ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 8, 2025
Peptide toxicity prediction is a critical task in biomedical research, influencing drug safety and therapeutic development. Traditional methods, relying on sequence similarity or handcrafted features, struggle to capture the complex relationship betw...
BACKGROUND: Proteins self-organize in dynamic cellular environments by assembling into reversible biomolecular condensates through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). These condensates can comprise single or multiple proteins, with different roles...
In the AlphaFold era, there is a significant momentum in predicting protein structures, functionality, and mutational hotspots from deep learning approaches. In this review, we highlight how structural information is only a starting point in understa...
At sufficiently high resolution, x-ray crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy are capable of resolving small spherical map features corresponding to either water or ions. Correct classification of these sites provides crucial insight for u...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 3, 2025
Accurate prediction of protein properties that influence cellular functions is crucial for drug design, disease research, and guiding biological wet-lab experiments. Previous methods primarily relied on physicochemical property analysis and homologou...
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