Abstract
Computer-aided drug design has an important role in drug development and design. It has
become a thriving area of research in the pharmaceutical industry to accelerate the drug discovery
process. Deep learning, a subdivision of artificial intelligence, is widely applied to advance new drug
development and design opportunities. This article reviews the recent technology that uses deep
learning techniques to ameliorate the understanding of drug-target interactions in computer-aided
drug discovery based on the prior knowledge acquired from various literature. In general, deep learning
models can be trained to predict the binding affinity between the protein-ligand complexes and
protein structures or generate protein-ligand complexes in structure-based drug discovery. In other
words, artificial neural networks and deep learning algorithms, especially graph convolutional neural
networks and generative adversarial networks, can be applied to drug discovery. Graph convolutional
neural network effectively captures the interactions and structural information between atoms and
molecules, which can be enforced to predict the binding affinity between protein and ligand. Also,
the ligand molecules with the desired properties can be generated using generative adversarial networks.
Keywords:
Deep learning, artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, machine learning, convolutional neural network, graph convolutional neural networks, computer-aided drug discovery.
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