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Ao Xu

University of Southern California

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Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Assay:protein structure· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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When DL-Based Prescreening Meets Synthon-Based Docking: Target-Adapting PharmacoNet via MEL-Steered Correction

Wenjin Liu, Yongchan Hong, Thomas Ku, Woojin Lee, Emily Nguyen, Ao Xu, Vsevolod Katritch

The paper adapts a general pharmacophore prescreening method to specific targets using fragment-docking data from the V-SYNTHES pipeline, improving its performance without additional data or retraining.

bioRxiv · Sep 4, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics