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ArticleCommunications biology2023

SVSBI: sequence-based virtual screening of biomolecular interactions.

Li Shen, Hongsong Feng, Yuchi Qiu, Guo-Wei Wei

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 21 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Li ShenDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
Hongsong FengDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
Yuchi QiuDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7058-6428
Guo-Wei WeiDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA. weig@msu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5781-2937

Funding

AI-based platform for predicting emerging vaccine-escape variants and designing mutation-proof antibodiesR01AI164266 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI Guowei Wei, YONG-HUI ZHENG · 2022 to 2026
$2.7M
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
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI164266NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virtual screening (VS) is a critical technique in understanding biomolecular interactions, particularly in drug design and discovery. However, the accuracy of current VS models heavily relies on three-dimensional (3D) structures obtained through molecular docking, which is often unreliable due to the low accuracy. To address this issue, we introduce a sequence-based virtual screening (SVS) as another generation of VS models that utilize advanced natural language processing (NLP) algorithms and optimized deep K-embedding strategies to encode biomolecular interactions without relying on 3D structure-based docking. We demonstrate that SVS outperforms state-of-the-art performance for four regression datasets involving protein-ligand binding, protein-protein, protein-nucleic acid binding, and ligand inhibition of protein-protein interactions and five classification datasets for protein-protein interactions in five biological species. SVS has the potential to transform current practices in drug discovery and protein engineering.

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AlgorithmsProteinsDrug DiscoveryLigandsMolecular Docking SimulationLigandsProteins

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PMID37202415
PMCPMC10195826

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