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ArticleNature communications2025

RNAmigos2: accelerated structure-based RNA virtual screening with deep graph learning.

Juan G Carvajal-Patiño, Vincent Mallet, David Becerra, Luis Fernando Niño Vasquez, Carlos Oliver, Jérôme Waldispühl

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Accurate RNA-Ligand Binding Site Prediction Based on a Multi-Channel Graph Neural Network.Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences · 2026
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  2. Machine Learning for RNA-Targeting Drug Design.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  5. Comparative Evaluation of Explicit Solvent Models for RNA-Ligand Docking.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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6 authors.

Juan G Carvajal-Patiño *School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-8577-2627
Vincent Mallet *LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, IP, Paris, France.
David BecerraSchool of Computer Science, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Luis Fernando Niño VasquezUniversidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogotá - Facultad de Ingeniería - Depto. de Ingeniería de Sistemas e Industrial, Bogotá, Colombia.
Carlos OliverMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. carlos.oliver@vanderbilt.edu.
Jérôme WaldispühlSchool of Computer Science, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada. jerome.waldispuhl@mcgill.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2561-7117

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNAs are a vast reservoir of untapped drug targets. Structure-based virtual screening (VS) identifies candidate molecules by leveraging binding site information, traditionally using molecular docking simulations. However, docking struggles to scale with large compound libraries and RNA targets. Machine learning offers a solution but remains underdeveloped for RNA due to limited data and practical evaluations. We introduce a data-driven VS pipeline tailored for RNA, utilizing coarse-grained 3D modeling, synthetic data augmentation, and RNA-specific self-supervision. Our model achieves a 10,000x speedup over docking while ranking active compounds in the top 2.8% on structurally distinct test sets. It is robust to binding site variations and successfully screens unseen RNA riboswitches in a 20,000-compound in-vitro microarray, with a mean enrichment factor of 2.93 at 1%. This marks the first experimentally validated success of structure-based deep learning for RNA VS.

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Deep LearningRNABinding SitesMolecular Docking SimulationNucleic Acid ConformationRiboswitchRiboswitchRNA

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PMCPMC11928640

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