Artificial intelligence in virtual screening: Models versus experiments

NA Murugan, GR Priya, GN Sastry, S Markidis - Drug Discovery Today, 2022 - Elsevier
A typical drug discovery project involves identifying active compounds with significant
binding potential for selected disease-specific targets. Experimental high-throughput …

Scoring functions for protein-ligand binding affinity prediction using structure-based deep learning: a review

R Meli, GM Morris, PC Biggin - Frontiers in bioinformatics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The rapid and accurate in silico prediction of protein-ligand binding free energies or binding
affinities has the potential to transform drug discovery. In recent years, there has been a …

Drug design and repurposing with DockThor-VS web server focusing on SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic targets and their non-synonym variants

IA Guedes, LSC Costa, KB Dos Santos, ALM Karl… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus was declared a pandemic disease in
March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Structure-Based Drug Design …

Revolutionizing medicinal chemistry: the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in early drug discovery

R Han, H Yoon, G Kim, H Lee, Y Lee - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated various sectors, including the pharmaceutical
industry and research, where it has been utilized to efficiently identify new chemical entities …

Computer-aided drug design and drug discovery: a prospective analysis

SK Niazi, Z Mariam - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the dynamic landscape of drug discovery, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) emerges
as a transformative force, bridging the realms of biology and technology. This paper …

A fully differentiable ligand pose optimization framework guided by deep learning and a traditional scoring function

Z Wang, L Zheng, S Wang, M Lin, Z Wang… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The recently reported machine learning-or deep learning-based scoring functions (SFs)
have shown exciting performance in predicting protein–ligand binding affinities with fruitful …

Keeping pace with the explosive growth of chemical libraries with structure‐based virtual screening

J Kuan, M Radaeva, A Avenido… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent efforts to synthetically expand drug‐like chemical libraries have led to the
emergence of unprecedently large virtual databases. This surge of make‐on‐demand …

In silico analysis of the apoptotic and HPV inhibitory roles of some selected phytochemicals detected from the rhizomes of greater cardamom

A Nag, P Verma, S Paul, R Kundu - Applied Biochemistry and …, 2022 - Springer
Occurrence of cervical cancer, caused due to persistent human papilloma virus (HPV)
infection, is common in women of developing countries. As the conventional treatments are …

DLPacker: Deep learning for prediction of amino acid side chain conformations in proteins

M Misiura, R Shroff, R Thyer… - … Structure, Function, and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Prediction of side chain conformations of amino acids in proteins (also termed “packing”) is
an important and challenging part of protein structure prediction with many interesting …

Multi-and many-objective optimization: present and future in de novo drug design

JS Angelo, IA Guedes, HJC Barbosa… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
de novo Drug Design (dnDD) aims to create new molecules that satisfy multiple conflicting
objectives. Since several desired properties can be considered in the optimization process …