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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…

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…

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.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.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.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.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…