[HTML][HTML] Industrializing AI/ML during the end-to-end drug discovery process

J Yoo, TY Kim, IS Joung, SO Song - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Drug discovery aims to select proper targets and drug candidates to address unmet clinical
needs. The end-to-end drug discovery process includes all stages of drug discovery from …

Phanto-IDP: compact model for precise intrinsically disordered protein backbone generation and enhanced sampling

J Zhu, Z Li, H Tong, Z Lu, N Zhang, T Wei… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The biological function of proteins is determined not only by their static structures but also by
the dynamic properties of their conformational ensembles. Numerous high-accuracy static …

Ligand binding affinity prediction with fusion of graph neural networks and 3D structure-based complex graph

L Dong, S Shi, X Qu, D Luo, B Wang - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Accurate prediction of protein–ligand binding affinity is pivotal for drug design and discovery.
Here, we proposed a novel deep fusion graph neural networks framework named FGNN to …

Synthesis and molecular modeling studies of naphthazarin derivatives as novel selective inhibitors of α-glucosidase and α-amylase

Ş Abadan, MF Saglam, MS Koca, M Bingul… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus is known as one of the most life-threatening diseases and has attracted
the attention of medicinal chemists. The design and synthesis of novel potential candidates …

In silico studies for improving target selectivity of anti-malarial dual falcipain inhibitors vis-à-vis human cathepsins

J Patra, S Arora, U Debnath… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Dual falcipain-2 (FP-2) and falcipain-3 (FP-3) inhibitors, NM12 and NM15,
displayed micromolar inhibitions but they exhibit similar binding affinities for the human …

Evaluation of Machine Learning/Molecular Mechanics End-State Corrections with Mechanical Embedding to Calculate Relative Protein–Ligand Binding Free Energies

J Karwounopoulos, M Bieniek, Z Wu… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The development of machine-learning (ML) potentials offers significant accuracy
improvements compared to molecular mechanics (MM) because of the inclusion of quantum …

Insights and Challenges in Correcting Force Field Based Solvation Free Energies Using a Neural Network Potential

J Karwounopoulos, Z Wu, S Tkaczyk… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We present a comprehensive study investigating the potential gain in accuracy for
calculating absolute solvation free energies (ASFE) using a neural network potential to …

Optimal Dielectric Boundary for Binding Free Energy Estimates in the Implicit Solvent

N Forouzesh, F Ghafouri, IS Tolokh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Accuracy of binding free energy calculations utilizing implicit solvent models is critically
affected by parameters of the underlying dielectric boundary, specifically, the atomic and …

Revisiting MMPBSA by adoption of MC-based surface area/volume, ANI-ML potentials, and two-valued interior dielectric constant

E Akkus, O Tayfuroglu, M Yildiz… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Here, we report the accuracy improvements of molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann
surface area (MMPBSA) calculations by adoption of ANI-ML potentials in replacement of MM …

Exploring epigenetic drugs as potential inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease: a docking and MD simulation study

U Uzuner, E Akkus, A Kocak… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused havoc around the globe since 2019 and is considered
the largest global epidemic of the twentieth century. Although the first antiviral drug …