International journal of molecular sciences
Mar 17, 2025
The classification of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 inhibitors is essential for identifying potential antiviral agents through computational methods. This study aims to develop an optimized machine learning (ML) model using random forest (RF) and molec...
When designing live-attenuated respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidates, attenuating mutations can be developed through biologic selection or reverse-genetic manipulation and may include point mutations, codon and gene deletions, and geno...
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
May 8, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic, driven by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), necessitates a profound understanding of the virus and its lifecycle. As an RNA virus with high mutation rates, SARS-CoV-2 exhibits genetic variability lea...
Hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV and HCV) are significant causes of chronic liver diseases, with approximately 350 million infections globally. To accelerate the finding of effective treatment options, we introduce HBCVTr, a novel ligand-based drug des...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Oct 8, 2021
Fast and accurate identification of inhibitors with potency against HCV NS5B polymerase is currently a challenging task. As conventional experimental methods is the gold standard method for the design and development of new HCV inhibitors, they often...
International journal of molecular sciences
Jul 19, 2021
In the last year, the COVID-19 pandemic has highly affected the lifestyle of the world population, encouraging the scientific community towards a great effort on studying the infection molecular mechanisms. Several vaccine formulations are nowadays a...
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a complex subcellular organelle composed of diverse structures such as tubules, sheets and tubular matrices. Flaviviruses such as Zika virus (ZIKV) induce reorganization of ER membranes to facilitate viral replicatio...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Sep 9, 2020
Artificial intelligence and multiobjective optimization represent promising solutions to bridge chemical and biological landscapes by addressing the automated design of compounds as a result of a humanlike creative process. In the present study, we ...
Knowledge management tools that assist in systematic review and exploration of scientific knowledge generally are of obvious potential importance in evidence based medicine in general, but also to the design of therapeutics based on the protein subse...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Jun 1, 2020
A novel coronavirus, called 2019-nCoV, was recently found in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China, and now is spreading across China and other parts of the world. Although there are some drugs to treat 2019-nCoV, there is no proper scientific evidence abou...
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