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ArticleACM-BCB ... ... : the ... ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine2025

Physics-Guided Active Learning for New Ligand Discovery.

Nikhil Dhiman, Dikshant Sagar, Negin Forouzesh

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Nikhil DhimanDepartment of Computer Science, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Dikshant SagarDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
Negin ForouzeshDepartment of Computer Science, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Funding

Improving the Accuracy of Implicit Solvents with a Physics-Guided Neural NetworkR16GM146633 · NIGMS · CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES · PI FOROUZESH, NEGIN · 2022 to 2025
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NIGMS NIH HHS R16 GM146633
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structure-based drug discovery seeks to identify small molecules that bind to protein targets and modulate their function, but current workflows remain slow, costly, and data-limited. While generative models can design ligands from protein structures, they often lack physical grounding and fail to generalize beyond static training data. We propose an active learning framework that generates 3D ligands conditioned on protein pocket geometry and iteratively retrains on the top 10% of candidates, evaluated using a composite score integrating binding affinity and solvation energy. On the refined PDBBind v2019 dataset, our approach yields consistent dataset-wide improvements: median binding affinity increases from -9.3 to -9.7 kcal/mol (compared to -8.7 kcal/mol for reference ligands), median solvation free energy decreases from 1.32 to 0.94 kcal/mol, and ASKCOS scores improve from -2.17e

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Active LearningDrug discoveryGenerative neural networks

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PMID42657312
PMCPMC13510072

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