arXiv Machine Learning

CORAL: Learning Amyloid Fibril Ligand Docking with Cooperative Binding Rewards

arXiv:2607. 17412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's is the aberrant aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils, and small molecules that selectively bind to these fibrils hold promise as diagnostics, imaging probes, and therapeutics.

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)

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Learning Topological Representations for Molecular Dynamics

arXiv:2606. 14737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations generate trajectories in a high-dimensional configuration space whose analysis critically depends on molecular descriptors, typically handcrafted observables or learned kinetic embeddings.

By Dominik Geng, Florian Graf, Martin Uray, Roland Kwitt

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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

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arXiv Machine Learning

2d ago

READ: A Retrieval-Alignment Diffusion Framework for Structure-based Drug Design

arXiv:2506. 14488v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Structure-based drug design (SBDD) models are central to modern pharmaceutical research, enabling the rational exploration of protein-ligand interactions at atomic resolution.

By Dong Xu, Zhangfan Yang, Junchuang Cai, Sisi Yuan, Zexuan Zhu, Jianqiang Li, Junkai Ji

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 11

RAVEN: Frozen Random Graph Reservoirs with Physics-Informed Interaction Fingerprints for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

arXiv:2608. 09099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative estimation of protein-ligand binding affinity from three-dimensional complex structures is a fundamental task in structure-based computational chemistry and molecular modeling.

By Qingyang Zou, Jiaye Huang, Hangbo Xie, Jiayue Yin, Youyi Song, Jinfeng Liu

arXiv AI

Jun 30

Beyond Drug Discovery: The Nanotechnology Molecular Optimization (NMO) Benchmark

arXiv:2606. 30170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative molecular design is shaped by simple proxy benchmarks for drug-like properties and models pretrained on large pharmaceutical datasets.

By Matthias Blaschke, Daniel Kienzle, Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda, Julian Lorenz, Rainer Lienhart, Fabian Pauly

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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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 27

TriGlue: a Biology-Inspired Generative Model for Generating Molecular Glue-Induced Ternary Complex

arXiv:2607. 22143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular glue degraders have emerged as a promising strategy for targeted protein degradation by inducing ternary complex formation between an E3 ubiquitin ligase and a target protein.

By Yuliang Yan, Shuo Yan, Haochun Tang, Yiqin Sun, Enyan Dai

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arXiv AI

Jun 24

Deciphering Fingerprints of 3D Molecular Surfaces for Accurate Epitope Prediction

arXiv:2606. 23830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Molecular surfaces encode the geometric and physicochemical patterns that determine antibody-antigen recognition, central to epitope prediction.

By Fang Wu, Weihao Xuan, Jure Leskovec, Yejin Choi, Li Erran Li

llms 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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 5

AlloGen: Conformation-Selective Binder Generation with Differential State Scoring

arXiv:2606. 05474v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Protein binder design has largely optimized for affinity alone, leaving conformational selectivity unaddressed: for allosteric targets such as kinases, nuclear receptors, and GPCRs, a binder that engages both active and inactive states provides no functional specificity regardless of how tightly it binds.

By Hanqun Cao, Zachary Quinn, Aastha Pal, Sumi Kimura, Jingjie Zhang, Pheng Ann Heng, Pranam Chatterjee

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 25

Neural operator-based digital twins for modeling amyloid-$\beta$ and tau propagation and treatment optimization in Alzheimer's disease

arXiv:2606. 25185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurately predicting the spatiotemporal evolution of amyloid-$\beta$ and tau proteins at the individual level is critical for improving the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

By Xiaofeng Xu, Tingting Dan, Zifan Zhou, Bin Li, Guorong Wu, Wenrui Hao

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