arXiv AI

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.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 15

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.

By Peng-Fei Sun, Chuan-Xian Ren, Hong Yan

benchmarks safety

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 15

Curvature-Guided Geometric Representation for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

arXiv:2606. 14159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein-ligand binding affinity (PLA) prediction is critical in drug discovery.

By Shuai Li, Chuan-Xian Ren, Yuhao Li, Ziqi Huang, Yue Pan, Mingzhe Tang, Hong Yan

benchmarks safety

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 5

An accurate nucleic acid-small molecule docking framework via geometric deep learning with large-scale pretraining

arXiv:2606. 05198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nucleic acids are increasingly recognized as therapeutic targets beyond conventional protein-centered drug discovery, yet accurate and efficient docking of small molecules to nucleic acid structures remains challenging.

By Shi Li (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China), Xujun Zhang (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China), Mingquan Liu (Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China), Hui Zhang (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China), Shuoying Jia (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China), Yu Kang (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China), Tingjun Hou (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Intelligent Drug Discovery and Development, Jinhua Institute of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China), Peichen Pan (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Intelligent Drug Discovery and Development, Jinhua Institute of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China)

fine-tuning benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 21

Do Language Models Dream of Binding Molecules? Benchmarking LLMs under Spatial Constraints

arXiv:2607. 18144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structure-based drug design (SBDD) leverages the 3D structure of protein targets, often complemented by other spatial constraints, to generate candidate binding molecules.

By Thomas MacDougall, Maksim Kuznetsov, Roman Schutski, Rim Shayakhmetov, Maxim Malkov, Vladimir Aladinskiy, Alex Aliper, Alex Zhavoronkov

llms diffusion benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 2

Structure-Guided Adaptive Propagation for Protein-Protein Interaction Site Prediction

arXiv:2606. 01781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of protein-protein interaction sites (PPIS) is essential for understanding cellular processes, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic target discovery.

By Enqiang Zhu, Yizi Liu, Yilong Luo, Yao Chen, Yu Zhang, Baoshan Ma

diffusion benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 24

SenCos-GEM: SENet-Calibrated and Law-of-Cosines-Constrained Geometry-Enhanced Molecular Representation for Property Prediction

arXiv:2607. 20551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective molecular representation learning is crucial for accurate molecular property prediction.

By Tianming Han, Li Zhang, Qi Zhao

benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

Out-of-Distribution Detection in Molecular Complexes via Diffusion Models for Irregular Graphs

arXiv:2512. 18454v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predictive machine learning models generally excel on in-distribution data, but their performance degrades on out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs.

By David Graber, Victor Armegioiu, Rebecca Buller, Siddhartha Mishra

diffusion

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 15

Generating Developable 3D Molecules via Pocket-Conditioned Diffusion and Property-Aware Optimization

arXiv:2607. 12349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drug discovery and development is time-consuming and resource-intensive, motivating computational approaches such as diffusion models for de novo drug design.

By Ruoxi Gao, Jiangweizhi Peng, Ziqi Chen, Frazier N. Baker, David C. Kombo, John L. Kane Jr., Andrew A. Scholte, Yi Li, Matthew J. LaMarche, Luigi I. Iconaru, Hans-Peter Biemann, Mingyi Hong, Xia Ning

diffusion benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 6

Geometry-Informed Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Pre-trained Molecular GNNs for Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Prediction

arXiv:2608. 04257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Blood-brain barrier permeability (BBBP) prediction is a critical screening task in central nervous system drug discovery, where candidate molecules must be assessed for whether they can cross, or should be prevented from crossing, the blood-brain barrier.

By Marco Vieto Vega, Long D. Nguyen, Binh P. Nguyen

fine-tuning

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 4

Fused Bayesian Flow Networks for Dual-Target Molecular Design

arXiv:2608. 01007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dual-target drug design aims to generate 3D molecules that can simultaneously interact with two target proteins, offering a promising route for discovering polypharmacological compounds against complex diseases.

By Jingyuan Zhou, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

diffusion safety

arXiv Machine Learning

1d ago

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

arXiv:2302. 12177v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predicting the binding sites of target proteins plays a fundamental role in drug discovery.

By Yang Zhang, Zhewei Wei, Ye Yuan, Chongxuan Li, Wenbing Huang

benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

Advancing Ligand-based Virtual Screening and Molecular Generation with Pretrained Molecular Embedding Distance

arXiv:2604. 24474v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Molecular similarity plays a central role in ligand-based drug discovery, such as virtual screening, analog searching, and goal-directed molecular generation.

By Shiyun Wa, Yifei Wang, Simone Sciabola, Ye Wang

rag

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