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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Protein-Ligand Docking in the Machine-Learning Era.

Chao Yang, Eric Anthony Chen, Yingkai Zhang

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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69citing papers in PubMed
22.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 163 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. IntegratedACS omega · 2026
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  4. Strategic Template Filtering Accelerates Fragment-Based Peptide Docking.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  9. Quantum computing applications in drug discovery.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026
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  12. Fine-Tuning DiffDock-L for Allosteric Kinase Docking.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  18. Elastic Net Regression to Predict CDK2 Inhibition.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  19. Deep Learning Pipeline for Accelerating Virtual Screening in Drug Discovery.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  20. Combining MVD and Ridge Method to Predict CDK2 Inhibition.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Chao YangDepartment of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7136-6013
Eric Anthony ChenDepartment of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Yingkai ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4984-3354
New York University · USNew York University Shanghai · CN

Funding

Computational modulator design and machine learning to target protein-protein interactionsR35GM127040 · NIGMS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI Yingkai Zhang · 2018 to 2026
$4.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM127040NIH HHS R35-GM127040
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular docking plays a significant role in early-stage drug discovery, from structure-based virtual screening (VS) to hit-to-lead optimization, and its capability and predictive power is critically dependent on the protein-ligand scoring function. In this review, we give a broad overview of recent scoring function development, as well as the docking-based applications in drug discovery. We outline the strategies and resources available for structure-based VS and discuss the assessment and development of classical and machine learning protein-ligand scoring functions. In particular, we highlight the recent progress of machine learning scoring function ranging from descriptor-based models to deep learning approaches. We also discuss the general workflow and docking protocols of structure-based VS, such as structure preparation, binding site detection, docking strategies, and post-docking filter/re-scoring, as well as a case study on the large-scale docking-based VS test on the LIT-PCBA data set.

Indexed as

Machine LearningProteinsLigandsMolecular Docking SimulationProtein BindingLigandsProteinsdatasetsdeep learningmachine learningmolecular dockingprotein–ligand scoring functionvirtual screening

Identifiers

PMID35889440
PMCPMC9323102
OpenAlexW4285728205

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