Artificial intelligence and machine learning‐aided drug discovery in central nervous system diseases: State‐of‐the‐arts and future directions

S Vatansever, A Schlessinger, D Wacker… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurological disorders significantly outnumber diseases in other therapeutic areas.
However, developing drugs for central nervous system (CNS) disorders remains the most …

A practical guide to machine-learning scoring for structure-based virtual screening

VK Tran-Nguyen, M Junaid, S Simeon, PJ Ballester - Nature Protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Structure-based virtual screening (SBVS) via docking has been used to discover
active molecules for a range of therapeutic targets. Chemical and protein data sets that …

[HTML][HTML] New machine learning and physics-based scoring functions for drug discovery

IA Guedes, AMS Barreto, D Marinho, E Krempser… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Scoring functions are essential for modern in silico drug discovery. However, the accurate
prediction of binding affinity by scoring functions remains a challenging task. The …

Delta machine learning to improve scoring-ranking-screening performances of protein–ligand scoring functions

C Yang, Y Zhang - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2022 - ACS Publications
Protein–ligand scoring functions are widely used in structure-based drug design for fast
evaluation of protein–ligand interactions, and it is of strong interest to develop scoring …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing AutoDock and Vina in ligand/decoy discrimination for virtual screening

TF Vieira, SF Sousa - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
AutoDock and Vina are two of the most widely used protein–ligand docking programs. The
fact that these programs are free and available under an open source license, also makes …

Combined strategies in structure-based virtual screening

Z Wang, H Sun, C Shen, X Hu, J Gao, D Li… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The identification and optimization of lead compounds are inalienable components in drug
design and discovery pipelines. As a powerful computational approach for the identification …

[HTML][HTML] Cytoplasmic DNA sensing by KU complex in aged CD4+ T cell potentiates T cell activation and aging-related autoimmune inflammation

Y Wang, Z Fu, X Li, Y Liang, S Pei, S Hao, Q Zhu, T Yu… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Aging is associated with DNA accumulation and increased homeostatic proliferation of
circulating T cells. Although these attributes are associated with aging-related autoimmunity …

ToDD: Topological compound fingerprinting in computer-aided drug discovery

A Demir, B Coskunuzer, Y Gel… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In computer-aided drug discovery (CADD), virtual screening (VS) is used for comparing a
library of compounds against known active ligands to identify the drug candidates that are …

Beware of simple methods for structure-based virtual screening: the critical importance of broader comparisons

VK Tran-Nguyen, PJ Ballester - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We discuss how data unbiasing and simple methods such as protein-ligand Interaction
FingerPrint (IFP) can overestimate virtual screening performance. We also show that IFP is …

[HTML][HTML] SCORCH: Improving structure-based virtual screening with machine learning classifiers, data augmentation, and uncertainty estimation

M McGibbon, S Money-Kyrle, V Blay… - Journal of Advanced …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction The discovery of a new drug is a costly and lengthy endeavour. The
computational prediction of which small molecules can bind to a protein target can …