DeltaDock: A Unified Framework for Accurate, Efficient, and Physically Reliable Molecular Docking

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yan, Jiaxian, Zhang, Zaixi, Zhu, Jintao, Zhang, Kai, Pei, Jianfeng, Liu, Qi
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910652616933376
author Yan, Jiaxian
Zhang, Zaixi
Zhu, Jintao
Zhang, Kai
Pei, Jianfeng
Liu, Qi
author_facet Yan, Jiaxian
Zhang, Zaixi
Zhu, Jintao
Zhang, Kai
Pei, Jianfeng
Liu, Qi
contents Molecular docking, a technique for predicting ligand binding poses, is crucial in structure-based drug design for understanding protein-ligand interactions. Recent advancements in docking methods, particularly those leveraging geometric deep learning (GDL), have demonstrated significant efficiency and accuracy advantages over traditional sampling methods. Despite these advancements, current methods are often tailored for specific docking settings, and limitations such as the neglect of protein side-chain structures, difficulties in handling large binding pockets, and challenges in predicting physically valid structures exist. To accommodate various docking settings and achieve accurate, efficient, and physically reliable docking, we propose a novel two-stage docking framework, DeltaDock, consisting of pocket prediction and site-specific docking. We innovatively reframe the pocket prediction task as a pocket-ligand alignment problem rather than direct prediction in the first stage. Then we follow a bi-level coarse-to-fine iterative refinement process to perform site-specific docking. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of DeltaDock. Notably, in the blind docking setting, DeltaDock achieves a 31\% relative improvement over the docking success rate compared with the previous state-of-the-art GDL model. With the consideration of physical validity, this improvement increases to about 300\%.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2410_11224
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle DeltaDock: A Unified Framework for Accurate, Efficient, and Physically Reliable Molecular Docking
Yan, Jiaxian
Zhang, Zaixi
Zhu, Jintao
Zhang, Kai
Pei, Jianfeng
Liu, Qi
Biomolecules
Machine Learning
Molecular docking, a technique for predicting ligand binding poses, is crucial in structure-based drug design for understanding protein-ligand interactions. Recent advancements in docking methods, particularly those leveraging geometric deep learning (GDL), have demonstrated significant efficiency and accuracy advantages over traditional sampling methods. Despite these advancements, current methods are often tailored for specific docking settings, and limitations such as the neglect of protein side-chain structures, difficulties in handling large binding pockets, and challenges in predicting physically valid structures exist. To accommodate various docking settings and achieve accurate, efficient, and physically reliable docking, we propose a novel two-stage docking framework, DeltaDock, consisting of pocket prediction and site-specific docking. We innovatively reframe the pocket prediction task as a pocket-ligand alignment problem rather than direct prediction in the first stage. Then we follow a bi-level coarse-to-fine iterative refinement process to perform site-specific docking. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of DeltaDock. Notably, in the blind docking setting, DeltaDock achieves a 31\% relative improvement over the docking success rate compared with the previous state-of-the-art GDL model. With the consideration of physical validity, this improvement increases to about 300\%.
title DeltaDock: A Unified Framework for Accurate, Efficient, and Physically Reliable Molecular Docking
topic Biomolecules
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11224