collaborators

6 papers

q-bio.BM2025

Sesame: Opening the door to protein pockets

Raúl Miñán, Carles Perez-Lopez, Javier Iglesias +2

Molecular docking is a cornerstone of drug discovery, relying on high-resolution ligand-bound structures to achieve accurate predictions. However, obtaining these structures is oft…

cs.LG2025

sHGCN: Simplified hyperbolic graph convolutional neural networks

Pol Arévalo, Alexis Molina, Álvaro Ciudad

Hyperbolic geometry has emerged as a powerful tool for modeling complex, structured data, particularly where hierarchical or tree-like relationships are present. By enabling embedd…

q-bio.QM2024

Character-level Tokenizations as Powerful Inductive Biases for RNA Foundational Models

Adrián Morales-Pastor, Raquel Vázquez-Reza, Miłosz Wieczór +5

RNA is a vital biomolecule with numerous roles and functions within cells, and interest in targeting it for therapeutic purposes has grown significantly in recent years. However, f…

q-bio.BM2024

Are Protein Language Models Compute Optimal?

Yaiza Serrano, Álvaro Ciudad, Alexis Molina

While protein language models (pLMs) have transformed biological research, the scaling laws governing their improvement remain underexplored. By adapting methodologies from NLP sca…

cs.LG2024

Scoreformer: A Surrogate Model For Large-Scale Prediction of Docking Scores

Álvaro Ciudad, Adrián Morales-Pastor, Laura Malo +3

In this study, we present ScoreFormer, a novel graph transformer model designed to accurately predict molecular docking scores, thereby optimizing high-throughput virtual screening…

q-bio.BM2024

GeoDirDock: Guiding Docking Along Geodesic Paths

Raúl Miñán, Javier Gallardo, Álvaro Ciudad +1

This work introduces GeoDirDock (GDD), a novel approach to molecular docking that enhances the accuracy and physical plausibility of ligand docking predictions. GDD guides the deno…