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ArticleNature communications2025

Sequence-based virtual screening using transformers.

Shengyu Zhang, Donghui Huo, Robert I Horne, Yumeng Qi, Sebastian Pujalte Ojeda, Aixia Yan, Michele Vendruscolo

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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 5 papers.

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7 authors.

Shengyu Zhang *Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6901-5874
Donghui Huo *Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Robert I Horne *Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1534-2639
Yumeng Qi *Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Sebastian Pujalte OjedaCentre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Aixia YanCollege of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China.
Michele VendruscoloCentre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. mv245@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3616-1610

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-ligand interactions play central roles in myriad biological processes and are of key importance in drug design. Deep learning approaches are becoming cost-effective alternatives to high-throughput experimental methods for ligand identification. Here, to predict the binding affinity between proteins and small molecules, we introduce Ligand-Transformer, a deep learning method based on the transformer architecture. Ligand-Transformer implements a sequence-based approach, where the inputs are the amino acid sequence of the target protein and the topology of the small molecule to enable the prediction of the conformational space explored by the complex between the two. We apply Ligand-Transformer to screen and validate experimentally inhibitors targeting the mutant EGFR

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Deep LearningProtein Kinase InhibitorsAmino Acid SequenceDrug DesignDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalErbB ReceptorsHumansLigandsProtein BindingProtein ConformationProto-Oncogene Proteins c-ablErbB ReceptorsLigandsProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-abl

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