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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction

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GB-score: Minimally designed machine learning scoring function based on distance-weighted interatomic contact

Milad Rayka¹, Rohoullah Firouzi¹

¹Department of Physical Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Research Center of Iran, Tehran, Iran.

Molecular Informatics

|February 1, 2023

Summary

GB-Score is a new machine learning scoring function that predicts protein-ligand binding affinity. It uses interatomic contact features and Gradient Boosting Trees, achieving high accuracy in binding affinity prediction for drug design.

Keywords:

CASF-2016 gradient-boosting trees machine learning molecular docking scoring function scoring power

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Area of Science:

Computational chemistry
Drug discovery
Machine learning

Background:

Data-driven approaches, including machine learning, are crucial for accelerating drug discovery.
Developing accurate scoring functions for predicting protein-ligand binding affinity is an active research area in computer-aided drug design.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce GB-Score, a novel machine learning-based scoring function for predicting binding affinity.
To evaluate the performance of GB-Score using established benchmarks.

Main Methods:

Utilized distance-weighted interatomic contact features for numerical representation of protein-ligand complexes.
Employed the Gradient Boosting Trees algorithm for binding affinity prediction.
Trained and validated the model on the PDBbind-v2019 general set.

Main Results:

GB-Score achieved a Pearson's correlation coefficient of 0.862.
The Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) was 1.190 on the CASF-2016 benchmark.
Demonstrated strong performance in scoring power for binding affinity prediction.

Conclusions:

GB-Score represents a state-of-the-art machine learning approach for binding affinity prediction.
The method shows significant potential for accelerating drug design and discovery.
The freely available code facilitates further research and application.