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ReviewPhysical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP2020

A review of mathematical representations of biomolecular data.

Duc Duy Nguyen, Zixuan Cang, Guo-Wei Wei

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Review in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Mayer-Homology Learning Prediction of Protein-Ligand Binding Affinities.Journal of computational biophysics and chemistry · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Duc Duy NguyenDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, MI 48824, USA. weig@msu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5921-8851
Zixuan CangDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, MI 48824, USA. weig@msu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9951-5586
Guo-Wei WeiDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, MI 48824, USA. weig@msu.edu and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, MI 48824, USA and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, MI 48824, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8132-5998

Funding

Synergistic integration of topology and machine learning for the predictions of protein-ligand binding affinities and mutation impactsR01GM126189 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WEI, GUOWEI · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
Structural and Mechanistic Characterization of the ZIP Metal TransportersR01GM129004 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HU, JIAN · 2018 to 2020
$593k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126189NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM129004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, machine learning (ML) has established itself in various worldwide benchmarking competitions in computational biology, including Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) and Drug Design Data Resource (D3R) Grand Challenges. However, the intricate structural complexity and high ML dimensionality of biomolecular datasets obstruct the efficient application of ML algorithms in the field. In addition to data and algorithm, an efficient ML machinery for biomolecular predictions must include structural representation as an indispensable component. Mathematical representations that simplify the biomolecular structural complexity and reduce ML dimensionality have emerged as a prime winner in D3R Grand Challenges. This review is devoted to the recent advances in developing low-dimensional and scalable mathematical representations of biomolecules in our laboratory. We discuss three classes of mathematical approaches, including algebraic topology, differential geometry, and graph theory. We elucidate how the physical and biological challenges have guided the evolution and development of these mathematical apparatuses for massive and diverse biomolecular data. We focus the performance analysis on protein-ligand binding predictions in this review although these methods have had tremendous success in many other applications, such as protein classification, virtual screening, and the predictions of solubility, solvation free energies, toxicity, partition coefficients, protein folding stability changes upon mutation, etc.

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Computational BiologyModels, BiologicalAlgorithmsMolecular Sequence Data

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PMID32067019
PMCPMC7081943

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