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most citedAre 2D fingerprints still valuable for drug discovery?

145 citations · 317 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CV2026

CRISP: Compositional Relations as Invariant Structural Priors for Domain Generalization

Dat Nguyen, Duc-Duy Nguyen

Domain generalization requires identifying stable representations that support reliable classification across domains. Domains may differ in low-level attributes, such as color, te…

cs.LG2025

Geometric Multi-color Message Passing Graph Neural Networks for Blood-brain Barrier Permeability Prediction

Trung Nguyen, Md Masud Rana, Farjana Tasnim Mukta +2

Accurate prediction of blood-brain barrier permeability (BBBP) is essential for central nervous system (CNS) drug development. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have advanced mole…

q-bio.BM2023

GGL-PPI: Geometric Graph Learning to Predict Mutation-Induced Binding Free Energy Changes

Md Masud Rana, Duc Duy Nguyen

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are critical for various biological processes, and understanding their dynamics is essential for decoding molecular mechanisms and advancing fie…

q-bio.BM2023

Geometric Graph Learning with Extended Atom-Types Features for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

Md Masud Rana, Duc Duy Nguyen

Understanding and accurately predicting protein-ligand binding affinity are essential in the drug design and discovery process. At present, machine learning-based methodologies are…

q-bio.BM2022

EISA-Score: Element Interactive Surface Area Score for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

Md Masud Rana, Duc Duy Nguyen

Molecular surface representations have been advertised as a great tool to study protein structure and functions, including protein-ligand binding affinity modeling. However, the co…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Multiscale Laplacian Learning

Ekaterina Merkurjev, Duc DUy Nguyen, Guo-Wei Wei

Machine learning methods have greatly changed science, engineering, finance, business, and other fields. Despite the tremendous accomplishments of machine learning and deep learnin…

q-bio.BM2020★ 2 cited

Review of COVID-19 Antibody Therapies

Jiahui Chen, Kaifu Gao, Rui Wang +2

Under the global health emergency caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), efficient and specific therapies are urgently needed. Compared with traditional small-molecular dru…

q-bio.BM2020★ 1 cited

Generative network complex for the automated generation of druglike molecules

Kaifu Gao, Duc D Nguyen, Meihua Tu +1

Current drug discovery is expensive and time-consuming. It remains a challenging task to create a wide variety of novel compounds with desirable pharmacological properties and chea…

q-bio.BM2020★ 5 cited

Unveiling the molecular mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibition from 92 crystal structures

Duc D Nguyen, Kaifu Gao, Jiahui Chen +2

Currently, there is no effective antiviral drugs nor vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Due to its hig…

q-bio.BM2020

Repositioning of 8565 existing drugs for COVID-19

Kaifu Gao, Duc Duy Nguyen, Jiahui Chen +2

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected near 5 million people and led to over 0.3 milli…

math.CO2019★ 2 cited

Persistent spectral graph

Rui Wang, Duc Duy Nguyen, Guo-Wei Wei

Persistent homology is constrained to purely topological persistence while multiscale graphs account only for geometric information. This work introduces persistent spectral theory…

q-bio.BM2019★ 103 cited

A review of mathematical representations of biomolecules

Duc D Nguyen, Zixuan Cang, Guo-Wei Wei

Recently, machine learning (ML) has established itself in various worldwide benchmarking competitions in computational biology, including Critical Assessment of Structure Predictio…

q-bio.BM2019★ 145 cited

Are 2D fingerprints still valuable for drug discovery?

Kaifu Gao, Duc Duy Nguyen, Vishnu Sresht +3

Recently, molecular fingerprints extracted from three-dimensional (3D) structures using advanced mathematics, such as algebraic topology, differential geometry, and graph theory ha…

q-bio.BM2019★ 1 cited

Generative network complex (GNC) for drug discovery

Christopher Grow, Kaifu Gao, Duc Duy Nguyen +1

It remains a challenging task to generate a vast variety of novel compounds with desirable pharmacological properties. In this work, a generative network complex (GNC) is proposed…

q-bio.QM2019★ 4 cited

MathDL: Mathematical deep learning for D3R Grand Challenge 4

Duc Duy Nguyen, Kaifu Gao, Menglun Wang +1

We present the performances of our mathematical deep learning (MathDL) models for D3R Grand Challenge 4 (GC4). This challenge involves pose prediction, affinity ranking, and free e…

q-bio.BM2018★ 2 cited

Algebraic graph learning of protein-ligand binding affinity

Duc Duy Nguyen, Guo-Wei Wei

Although algebraic graph theory based models have been widely applied in physical modeling and molecular studies, they are typically incompetent in the analysis and prediction of b…

q-bio.QM2018★ 1 cited

DG-GL: Differential geometry based geometric learning of molecular datasets

Duc Duy Nguyen, Guo-Wei Wei

Motivation: Despite its great success in various physical modeling, differential geometry (DG) has rarely been devised as a versatile tool for analyzing large, diverse and complex…

q-bio.BM2018★ 7 cited

Mathematical deep learning for pose and binding affinity prediction and ranking in D3R Grand Challenges

Duc Duy Nguyen, Zixuan Cang, Kedi Wu +3

Advanced mathematics, such as multiscale weighted colored graph and element specific persistent homology, and machine learning including deep neural networks were integrated to con…

q-bio.BM2017

Rigidity strengthening is a vital mechanism for protein-ligand binding

Duc Duy Nguyen, Tian Xiao, Menglun Wang +1

Protein-ligand binding is essential to almost all life processes. The understanding of protein-ligand interactions is fundamentally important to rational drug design and protein de…

q-bio.QM2017

Feature functional theory - binding predictor (FFT-BP) for the blind prediction of binding free energies

Bao Wang, Zhixiong Zhao, Duc D. Nguyen +1

We present a feature functional theory - binding predictor (FFT-BP) for the protein-ligand binding affinity prediction. The underpinning assumptions of FFT-BP are as follows: i) re…

q-bio.BM2016★ 29 cited

Generalized flexibility-rigidity index

Duc Duy Nguyen, Kelin Xia, Guo-Wei Wei

Flexibility-rigidity index (FRI) has been developed as a robust, accurate and efficient method for macromolecular thermal fluctuation analysis and B-factor prediction. The performa…

q-bio.QM2016

The impact of surface area, volume, curvature and Lennard-Jones potential to solvation modeling

Duc Duy Nguyen, Guo-Wei Wei

This paper explores the impact of surface area, volume, curvature and Lennard-Jones potential on solvation free energy predictions. Rigidity surfaces are utilized to generate robus…

q-bio.BM2016★ 2 cited

Accurate, robust and reliable calculations of Poisson-Boltzmann binding energies

Duc D. Nguyen, Bao Wang, Guo-wei Wei

Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model is one of the most popular implicit solvent models in biophysical modeling and computation. The ability of providing accurate and reliable PB estimatio…

math.GR2010★ 12 cited

First cohomology for finite groups of Lie type: simple modules with small dominant weights

Brian D. Boe, Adrian M. Brunyate, Jon F. Carlson +12

Let be an algebraically closed field of characteristic , and let be a simple, simply connected algebraic group defined over . Given , set $q=…