Application of Dirichlet process mixture model to the identification of spin systems in protein NMR spectra

Analysis of structure, function and interactions of proteins by NMR spectroscopy usually requires the assignment of resonances to the corresponding nuclei in protein. This task, although automated by methods such as FLYA or PINE, is still frequently performed manually. To facilitate the manual sequence-specific chemical shift assignment of complex proteins, we propose a method based on Dirichlet process mixture model (DPMM) that performs automated matching of groups of signals observed in NMR spectra to corresponding nuclei in protein sequence. The model has been extensively tested on 80 proteins retrieved from the BMRB database and has shown superior performance to the reference method.

Interaction prediction in structure-based virtual screening using deep learning

We introduce a deep learning architecture for structure-based virtual screening that generates fixed-sized fingerprints of proteins and small molecules by applying learnable atom convolution and softmax operations to each molecule separately. These fingerprints are further non-linearly transformed, their inner product is calculated and used to predict the binding potential. Moreover, we show that widely used benchmark datasets may be insufficient for testing structure-based virtual screening methods that utilize machine learning. Therefore, we introduce a new benchmark dataset, which we constructed based on DUD-E, MUV and PDBBind databases.