Transferable Collective Variable to accelerate Protein-Ligand (Un)Binding Transitions via Explainable Machine Learning and Intriguing Role of Ligand Solvation
This paper introduces an interpretable machine learning method to derive optimized collective variables for protein-ligand binding-unbinding transitions, achieving accurate free energy estimates and residence times with low computational cost.
bioRxiv · Aug 22, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics