This study presents ECloudGen, which uses latent diffusion to generate electron clouds from protein pockets and decodes them into molecules, and adopts two-stage training, which expands the chemical space accessible to generative drug design.
LiTEN achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on standard benchmarks, consistently outperforming leading approaches in both precision and speed, and enables comprehensive modeling tasks, ranging from geometry optimization to free energy surface construction, with high computational efficiency for large biomolecules.
Qun Su, Kai Zhu, Qiaolin Gou et al.· Nature Communications· 2 citations
A committor-based method that promotes frequent transitions between the metastable states of the system and allows extensive sampling of the process transition state ensemble and highlights the advantages of a graph-based approach in describing the role of solvent molecules in systems, such as ion pair dissociation or ligand binding.
Peilin Kang, Jin-Tu Zhang, Enrico Trizio et al.· Journal of Chemical Theory a...· 7 citations
A comprehensive overview of how enhanced sampling methods are reshaping the field, with a particular focus on the data-driven construction of collective variables, is provided.
Kai Zhu, Enrico Trizio, Jintu Zhang et al.· Chemical Reviews· 58 citations
An integrated computational workflow that combines enhanced sampling techniques and machine learning collective variables to identify druggable conformations of the AR-NTD and elucidate the binding mechanism of its modulator, EPI-002 is introduced.
Kai Zhu, Huating Wang, Jin-Tu Zhang et al.· Nature Communications· 0 citations
A novel committor learning framework grounded in the AlphaFold 3 paradigm is proposed that elucidates how ligand substituents regulate the ratio between distinct binding pathways, offering new perspectives for structure-based drug design.
Jintu Zhang, Zichang Jin, Huifeng Zhao et al.· 0 citations
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