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Computational Drug Discovery Methods
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- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Structure-based virtual screening and Molecular Dynamic Simulations identified FDA-approved molecules as potential inhibitors against the surface proteins of H1N1
Sukanya Bordoloi, Roshny Prasad, VS Lakshmi…·Shijulal Nelson Sathi
The paper identifies FDA-approved molecules as potential inhibitors of H1N1 viral surface proteins through virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations.
2 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Offline RL for generative design of protein binders
Denis Tarasov, Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob, Miguel Arbesú…·Arnu Pretorius
This study applies offline reinforcement learning to generate protein binders with improved docking and chemical properties by addressing the computational cost of protein-ligand docking.
DOI 10.1101/2023.11.29.569328 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Molecular Tasks: An Insightful Evaluation with GPT-4
Jinlu Zhang, Yin Fang, Ningyu Zhang…·Xiaohui Fan
This study evaluates GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 in molecular tasks, showing their strengths in molecular optimization but challenges in generating complex molecules.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
ChemXTree: A Tree-enhanced Classification Approach to Small-molecule Drug Discovery
Yuzhi Richie Xu, Xinxin Liu, Jiankai Ge…·John Z.H. Zhang
ChemXTree improves small-molecule drug discovery by integrating tree-based algorithms with a graph model, showing superior performance in feature optimization on benchmark datasets.
DOI 10.1101/2023.11.28.568989 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Sequence-based drug design using transformers
Shengyu Zhang, Donghui Huo, Robert I. Horne…·Michele Vendruscolo
This paper introduces Ligand-Transformer, a deep learning framework for predicting protein-ligand interactions, and demonstrates its application in identifying inhibitors for specific targets and studying disordered proteins.
4 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
RNAmigos2: Fast and accurate structure-based RNA virtual screening with semi-supervised graph learning and large-scale docking data
Juan G. Carvajal-Patiño, Vincent Mallet, David Becerra…·Jérôme Waldispühl
RNAmigos2 improves RNA virtual screening by combining semi-supervised graph learning and large-scale docking data, achieving high accuracy and speed.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Boosting performance of generative diffusion model for molecular docking by training on artificial binding pockets
Taras Voitsitskyi, Volodymyr G. Bdzhola, Roman Stratiichuk…·Sergiy A. Starosyla
This paper introduces a generative diffusion model for molecular docking trained on artificial binding pockets, showing improved performance over existing methods.
2 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Enhancing Ligand-Based Virtual Screening with 3D Shape Similarity via a Distance-Aware Transformer Model
Manuel S. Sellner, Amr Hamed Mahmoud, Markus A. Lill
This paper introduces a distance-aware Transformer model that enhances ligand-based virtual screening by capturing 3D shape similarity, enabling efficient screening of large compound databases.
1 citation - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Protein-Ligand Binding Site Prediction and De Novo Ligand Generation from Cryo-EM Maps
Chunyang Lu, Kaustav Mitra, Kiran Mitra…·Dong Si
The paper develops a system for predicting protein-ligand binding sites from Cryo-EM maps and generates drug-like ligands using a combination of PLBP methods and a de novo structure modeling tool.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
PanScreen: A Comprehensive Approach to Off-Target Liability Assessment
Manuel S. Sellner, Friedrich L. Joos, Alex Odermatt…·Martin Smieško
PanScreen assesses off-target liabilities of small molecules using structure-based modeling and deep learning, offering accurate predictions and insights into potential modes of action.
DOI 10.1101/2023.11.16.567496 - BiochemistrybioRxivPreprint
Computationally Driven Design of Novel BACE-1 Inhibitors for Alzheimer's Disease
Megan M. Chinn, Diego López Mateos, Mary Ann Riley, Justin B. Siegel
This study designs new BACE-1 inhibitors using computational modeling, showing improved docking scores compared to Verubecestat for Alzheimer's disease treatment.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Quality Matters: Deep Learning-Based Analysis of Protein-Ligand Interactions with Focus on Avoiding Bias
Manuel S. Sellner, Markus A. Lill, Martin Smieško
This paper evaluates dataset quality and splitting techniques for predicting protein-ligand binding affinities, introducing a tool (po-sco) and showing improved model performance with better data practices.
3 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
TranSiGen: Deep representation learning of chemical-induced transcriptional profile
Xiaochu Tong, Ning Qu, Xiangtai Kong…·Mingyue Zheng
TranSiGen denoises and reconstructs chemical-induced transcriptional profiles using deep generative modeling, effectively predicting differential expression genes and serving as alternative phenotype information for drug discovery.
1 citation - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Conversational Chemistry: A Novel Approach to Chemical Search and Property Prediction
The paper trains a chemical property prediction model using English and SELFIES, achieving better performance than message passing neural networks in some tasks and enabling natural language drug searches.
1 citation - BiochemistrybioRxivPreprint
Identification of A Potential Inhibitor for Anticancer Target MTHFD2 by Consensus Docking and Molecular Dynamics
Huiyuan Zhou, Yebin Hong, Floyd A. Beckford
This study identifies E96 as a potential inhibitor of MTHFD2 through consensus docking and molecular dynamics, showing it outperforms other compounds in binding stability and free energy.
3 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Do chemical language models provide a better compound representation?
Mirko Torrisi, Saeid Asadollahi, Antonio de la Vega de León…·Wilbert B. Copeland
This study evaluates if pre-training chemical language models on large compound datasets improves compound representation, finding that standard masked language modeling is insufficient.
DOI 10.1101/2023.11.07.566025 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
DeepVASP-S: a deep-learning tool for explaining steric mechanism that controls binding specificity
Yangying Liu, Houliang Zhou, Brian Yuan Chen
DeepVASP-S predicts amino acid contributions to binding specificity using CNNs and explains steric mechanisms in protein-ligand interactions.
DOI 10.1101/2023.11.04.565624 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Structure prediction of protein-ligand complexes from sequence information with Umol
Patrick Bryant, Atharva Kelkar, Andrea Guljas…·Frank Noé
This paper introduces Umol, an AI system that predicts protein-ligand complex structures from sequence and ligand SMILES, outperforming existing methods at high accuracy.
14 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Bio-Mol:Pretraining Multimodality Bioactivity Profile for Enhancing Small Molecule Property Prediction
Hiu Fung Yip, Xiao Wei, Zeming Li…·Aiping Lü
Bio-Mol improves small molecule property prediction by integrating missing bioactivity profiles through pretraining and finetuning, achieving a 5.2% higher AUROC than previous models.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
A foundation model for bioactivity prediction using pairwise meta-learning
Bin Feng, Zequn Liu, Nanlan Huang…·Sheng Wang
ActFound is a foundation model for bioactivity prediction trained on 2.3 million compounds and 50,869 assays, showing strong generalization and performance comparable to FEP+(OPLS4).
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Drug-Target-Interaction Prediction with Contrastive and Siamese Transformers.
This paper introduces two Transformer-based methods for Drug-Target-Interaction prediction, emphasizing interpretability and performance through contrastive learning and cross-attention mechanisms.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Molecular dynamic investigation for ROCO-4 kinase inhibitor as treatment options for parkinsonism
The paper investigates potential inhibitors of ROCO4 kinase for Parkinson's disease treatment, identifying Mongolicain-A as a promising candidate with high specificity for the G2019S mutation.
DOI 10.1101/2023.10.21.563412 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Robust and Adaptive Deep Model Ensemble Framework Fine-tuned by Structural Information for Drug-Target Interactions
Jinhang Wei, Linlin Zhuo, Xiangzheng Fu…·Quan Zou
This paper introduces EADTN, an ensemble model for drug-target interactions that improves predictive performance and identifies false-negative samples through adaptive feature weighting and clustering fine-tuning.
DOI 10.1101/2023.10.20.563031 - Systems BiologybioRxivPreprint
Herb-CMap: Novel Hot Diffusion Algorithm to Identify Bioactive Ingredients from Herbal Medicine Based on Gene Perturbation Profiling
Yinyin Wang, Yihang Sui, Jiaqi Yao…·Ning‐Hua Tan
Herb-CMap identifies bioactive ingredients in herbal medicine by integrating gene perturbation data with a random walk algorithm, revealing molecular mechanisms of action for treating cough variant asthma.
DOI 10.1101/2023.10.19.563046 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Insights into Drug Cardiotoxicity from Biological and Chemical Data: The First Public Classifiers for FDA DICTrank
Srijit Seal, Ola Spjuth, Layla Hosseini-Gerami…·Anne Elizabeth Carpenter
This study develops public classifiers for predicting drug-induced cardiotoxicity using FDA DICTrank data, identifying key chemical and biological features that distinguish toxic from non-toxic compounds.
7 citations - Systems BiologybioRxivPreprint
Compound Mechanism of Action and Polypharmacology can be Elucidated by Large-Scale Perturbational Profile Analysis
Lucas ZhongMing Hu, Tal Hirschhorn, Stanley I. Goldstein…·Andrea Califano
The paper uses large-scale perturbation profiles to analyze drug mechanisms of action and polypharmacology across multiple tumor subtypes and tissues.
1 citation - Systems BiologybioRxivPreprint
The EFFECT benchmark suite: measuring cancer sensitivity prediction performance - without the bias
Bence Szalai, Imre Gáspár, Valér Kaszás…·Kristóf Z. Szalay
The paper introduces the EFFECT benchmark suite to evaluate cancer sensitivity prediction models by addressing data biases and improving benchmarking accuracy.
5 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
MMD-DTA: A multi-modal deep learning framework for drug-target binding affinity and binding region prediction
Liwei Liu, Qi Zhang, Yuxiao Wei…·Bo Liao
MMD-DTA predicts drug-target binding affinity and regions using a multi-modal deep learning framework, outperforming existing models and showing strong generalization.