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Publications (7)

q-bio.BM2023

Delete: Deep Lead Optimization Enveloped in Protein Pocket through Unified Deleting Strategies and a Structure-aware Network

Haotian Zhang, Huifeng Zhao, Xujun Zhang +10

Drug discovery is a highly complicated process, and it is unfeasible to fully commit it to the recently developed molecular generation methods. Deep learning-based lead optimizatio…

q-bio.BM2026

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

Shi Li, Xujun Zhang, Mingquan Liu +5

Nucleic acids are increasingly recognized as therapeutic targets beyond conventional protein-centered drug discovery, yet accurate and efficient docking of small molecules to nucle…

q-bio.BM2025

ODesign: A World Model for Biomolecular Interaction Design

Odin Zhang, Xujun Zhang, Haitao Lin +34

Biomolecular interactions underpin almost all biological processes, and their rational design is central to programming new biological functions. Generative AI models have emerged…

q-bio.BM2025

Discovery of novel antimicrobial peptides with notable antibacterial potency by a LLM-based foundation model

Jike Wang, Jianwen Feng, Yu Kang +16

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable advancements in chemistry and biomedical research, acting as versatile foundation models for various tasks. We introduce AMP-Desi…

q-bio.BM2024

Deep Lead Optimization: Leveraging Generative AI for Structural Modification

Odin Zhang, Haitao Lin, Hui Zhang +7

The idea of using deep-learning-based molecular generation to accelerate discovery of drug candidates has attracted extraordinary attention, and many deep generative models have be…

physics.chem-ph2024

Deep Geometry Handling and Fragment-wise Molecular 3D Graph Generation

Odin Zhang, Yufei Huang, Shichen Cheng +14

Most earlier 3D structure-based molecular generation approaches follow an atom-wise paradigm, incrementally adding atoms to a partially built molecular fragment within protein pock…

q-bio.BM2023

Highly accurate and efficient deep learning paradigm for full-atom protein loop modeling with KarmaLoop

Tianyue Wang, Xujun Zhang, Odin Zhang +5

Protein loop modeling is the most challenging yet highly non-trivial task in protein structure prediction. Despite recent progress, existing methods including knowledge-based, ab i…