A pairwise binding comparison network (PBCNet) has been established for predicting the relative binding affinity among congeneric ligands, using a physics-informed graph attention mechanism with a pair of protein pocket-ligand complexes as input. PBCNet shows practical value in guiding structure-based drug lead optimization with speed, precision, and ease-of-use.
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Efficient prediction of relative ligand binding affinity in drug discovery. Nat Comput Sci 3, 829–830 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-023-00531-1
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