arXiv Machine Learning

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.

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

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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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 17

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 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 22

DBMol: Design of High-Affinity, Target-Specific Small Molecules through Structure Prediction Models

arXiv:2607. 19237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing small molecule ligands that bind with high affinity to specific protein pockets is a fundamental goal in drug discovery, as small molecules constitute a major fraction of approved therapeutics.

By Yiming Qin, Kai Yi, Miruna Cretu, Sjors H. W. Scheres, Pietro Li\`o, Pascal Frossard

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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 18

KEPLA: A Knowledge-Enhanced Deep Learning Framework for Accurate Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

arXiv:2506. 13196v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is critical for drug discovery.

By Han Liu, Keyan Ding, Peilin Chen, Yinwei Wei, Liqiang Nie, Dapeng Wu, Shiqi Wang

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arXiv Machine Learning

4d ago

MoTIF-X: A Multimodal Tokenized Framework for Interpretable and Extensible Molecular Representation Learning

arXiv:2609.37384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular representation learning is central to computer-aided drug discovery. Molecular graphs, SMILES strings, and 3D conformations provide complemen...

By Linqing Mo, Jiayu Zhou, Bin Chen

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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

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 AI

Aug 5

Learning Molecular Representations from Cellular Phenotypes with Structure Preservation

arXiv:2608. 02688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Phenotypic drug discovery enables the discovery of functional relationships between molecular structures and cellular responses.

By Xuan Lin, Jingyu Sheng, Tengfei Ma, Li Sun, Dapeng Xiong

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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

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