arXiv Machine Learning

Curvature-Informed Potential Energy Surface for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

arXiv:2606. 14217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is essential for structure-based drug discovery.

arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

ProtScape: A molecular structure and energy-aware representation for protein conformation generation

arXiv:2410.20317v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a principled but computationally expensive approach for studying protein conformational variability, making...

By Siddharth Viswanath, Xingzhi Sun, Lucas Lee, Danqi Liao, Hiren Madhu, David R. Johnson, Jo\~ao Felipe Rocha, Egbert Castro, Jackson D. Grady, Michael Perlmutter, Dhananjay Bhaskar, Smita Krishnaswamy
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

EquiPocket: an E(3)-Equivariant Geometric Graph Neural Network for Ligand Binding Site Prediction

EquiPocket is an E(3)-equivariant Graph Neural Network designed to predict ligand binding sites on proteins. It processes proteins as geometric graphs, extracting local surface atom geometry, modeling chemical and spatial relationships, and performing equivariant message passing to capture surface geometry. A dense attention output layer mitigates issues caused by variable protein sizes, and experiments show the method outperforms current state‑of‑the‑art approaches.

By Yang Zhang, Zhewei Wei, Ye Yuan, Chongxuan Li, Wenbing Huang
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Beyond SBDD: Geometric Deep Learning in Polypharmacology and Multi-target Drug Design

arXiv:2607. 20550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The traditional "one drug, one target" paradigm of structure-based drug design (SBDD) frequently proves inadequate for treating multifactorial diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, owing to compensatory signaling pathways and the emergence of drug resistance.

By Tianming Han, Zhijie Pan, Wenchi Ge, Qi Zhao
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Protein Representation Learning with Secondary-Structure and Energy-Filtered Hydrogen-Bond Graphs

arXiv:2606. 19374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-based representations are widely used in protein modeling, yet many existing approaches rely primarily on sequence adjacency or geometric proximity, which only partially reflect the principles governing protein folding.

By Mohamed Mouhajir, Limei Wang, El Houcine Bergou, Hajar El Hammouti, Lamiae Azizi, Dongqi Fu
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Chemical and geometric representation fidelity improves drug--target affinity prediction

The paper introduces ReGeoDTA, a framework that preserves chemical heterogeneity and continuous geometric relationships in drug and protein representations to improve drug–target affinity prediction. Experiments on three benchmark datasets show that maintaining representation fidelity consistently enhances predictive accuracy across various DTA architectures, while degrading representations harms performance and cannot be recovered by more complex downstream models. The study highlights representation fidelity as a key upstream design principle for accurate and generalizable affinity prediction.

By Yixiao Li, Yining Qian, Yefan Chen, Zenghui Chen, Jiayue Sun, Yuhai Zhao, Cheng Tan, An-Yang Lu