arXiv Machine Learning

Q-Score: A Quantum-Native Scoring Function for Molecular Docking

arXiv:2607. 09737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Molecular docking predicts how a small molecule binds to a protein and is a key bottleneck in drug discovery.

arXiv AI
Jul 28

QFoldAgent: An Autonomous Quantum Optimization Multi-Agent System for Protein Structure Prediction

arXiv:2607. 22549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid quantum-classical protein structure prediction depends strongly on Hamiltonian penalty weights, yet existing lattice-based workflows typically fix these coefficients by hand and evaluate only very short fragments in simulation.

By Winson Chen, Yuqi Zhang, Sixu Chen, Nuo Xu, Qiang Guan, Caiwen Ding
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)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

$\mathtt{Q^2SAR}$: overcoming classical bottlenecks in drug discovery via quantum multiple kernel learning

arXiv:2607. 11701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship ($\mathtt{QSAR}$) modeling is a foundational computational methodology in early-stage drug discovery, heavily relied upon for predicting compound toxicity, bioavailability, and therapeutic potential.

By Mariano Caruso, Daniel Ruiz, Alejandro Giraldo, Guido Bellomo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Bridging the NISQ and Fault-Tolerant Regimes: Generative-ML-Assisted Quantum Selected CI for Molecular Simulations

arXiv:2606. 30551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Calculation of binding energies for protein-ligand molecular systems requires accurate treatment of the electronic structure, a quantum chemistry problem that scales exponentially on classical hardware, while current quantum hardware remains too noisy for the required circuit depths.

By Anurag K. S. V., Ashish Kumar Patra, Manas Mukherjee, Ruchika Bhat, Sai Shankar P., Rahul Maitra, Jaiganesh G
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Trustworthy Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction via Reliability-Aware Multi-Engine Fusion

arXiv:2607. 17601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate protein-ligand binding affinity prediction is central to computational drug discovery, yet modern docking engines frequently disagree without indicating which prediction to trust.

By Yongchan Hong, Defu Cao, Wenjin Liu, Thomas Ku, Jordy Homing Lam, Emily Nguyen, Willie Neiswanger, Vsevolod Katritch, Yan Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 7

HamQASBench: A Hamiltonian-Informed Diagnostic Benchmark for Evaluating Quantum Architecture Search

arXiv:2607. 04845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Architecture Search (QAS) automates the design of parameterized quantum circuits for variational quantum algorithms, yet existing benchmarks organize instances by molecular identity or qubit count -- criteria agnostic to Hamiltonian structure -- and rely solely on energy accuracy, which cannot detect structural failures such as over-parameterization on near-product ground states.

By Jiayang Niu, Akib Karim, Yan Wang, Jie Li, Ke Deng, Azadeh Alavi, Muhammad Usman, Yongli Ren
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 20

Trustworthy Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction via Reliability-Aware Multi-Engine Fusion

Accurate protein-ligand binding affinity prediction is central to computational drug discovery, yet modern docking engines frequently disagree without indicating which prediction to trust. Consensus scoring and ensemble methods improve mean accuracy but treat all predictions identically without interpretable confidence measures or uncertainty decomposition, ignoring the chemical context of each protein-ligand pair.

arXiv AI
Jun 8

ShallowBench: Benchmarking Generative Drug Design Models on Shallow-Pocket Targets

arXiv:2606. 06717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While generative AI models have demonstrated remarkable success in structure-based drug design, they predominantly rely on deep binding pockets and struggle to sample effective ligands for challenging low-pocketability targets, such as the historically "undruggable" oncology targets KRAS and MYC.

By Saket Reddy, Shiwei Liu