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Main Authors: Li, Yunting, Cui, Xiaopeng, Xiong, Zhaoping, Liu, Bowen, Wang, Bi-Ying, Shu, Runqiu, Qiao, Nan, Yung, Man-Hong
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08265
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author Li, Yunting
Cui, Xiaopeng
Xiong, Zhaoping
Liu, Bowen
Wang, Bi-Ying
Shu, Runqiu
Qiao, Nan
Yung, Man-Hong
author_facet Li, Yunting
Cui, Xiaopeng
Xiong, Zhaoping
Liu, Bowen
Wang, Bi-Ying
Shu, Runqiu
Qiao, Nan
Yung, Man-Hong
contents Molecular docking (MD) is a crucial task in drug design, which predicts the position, orientation, and conformation of the ligand when bound to a target protein. It can be interpreted as a combinatorial optimization problem, where quantum annealing (QA) has shown promising advantage for solving combinatorial optimization. In this work, we propose a novel quantum molecular docking (QMD) approach based on QA-inspired algorithm. We construct two binary encoding methods to efficiently discretize the degrees of freedom with exponentially reduced number of bits and propose a smoothing filter to rescale the rugged objective function. We propose a new quantum-inspired algorithm, hopscotch simulated bifurcation (hSB), showing great advantage in optimizing over extremely rugged energy landscapes. This hSB can be applied to any formulation of objective function under binary variables. An adaptive local continuous search is also introduced for further optimization of the discretized solution from hSB. Concerning the stability of docking, we propose a perturbation detection method to help ranking the candidate poses. We demonstrate our approach on a typical dataset. QMD has shown advantages over the search-based Autodock Vina and the deep-learning DIFFDOCK in both re-docking and self-docking scenarios. These results indicate that quantum-inspired algorithms can be applied to solve practical problems in the drug discovery even before quantum hardware become mature.
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spellingShingle Quantum molecular docking with quantum-inspired algorithm
Li, Yunting
Cui, Xiaopeng
Xiong, Zhaoping
Liu, Bowen
Wang, Bi-Ying
Shu, Runqiu
Qiao, Nan
Yung, Man-Hong
Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
Molecular docking (MD) is a crucial task in drug design, which predicts the position, orientation, and conformation of the ligand when bound to a target protein. It can be interpreted as a combinatorial optimization problem, where quantum annealing (QA) has shown promising advantage for solving combinatorial optimization. In this work, we propose a novel quantum molecular docking (QMD) approach based on QA-inspired algorithm. We construct two binary encoding methods to efficiently discretize the degrees of freedom with exponentially reduced number of bits and propose a smoothing filter to rescale the rugged objective function. We propose a new quantum-inspired algorithm, hopscotch simulated bifurcation (hSB), showing great advantage in optimizing over extremely rugged energy landscapes. This hSB can be applied to any formulation of objective function under binary variables. An adaptive local continuous search is also introduced for further optimization of the discretized solution from hSB. Concerning the stability of docking, we propose a perturbation detection method to help ranking the candidate poses. We demonstrate our approach on a typical dataset. QMD has shown advantages over the search-based Autodock Vina and the deep-learning DIFFDOCK in both re-docking and self-docking scenarios. These results indicate that quantum-inspired algorithms can be applied to solve practical problems in the drug discovery even before quantum hardware become mature.
title Quantum molecular docking with quantum-inspired algorithm
topic Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08265