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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Computational Drug Discovery Methods

   AlphaFold2 structures guide prospective ligand discovery

   Lyu, Kapolka, Gumpper et al. · Science · 2024

   Docking large libraries against unrefined AlphaFold2 models of two receptors found new ligands as well as docking against experimental structures, extending structure-based drug design.

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   1. UncheckedDocking against AlphaFold2 models and experimental structures gave similarly high hit rates and similar binding affinities for two receptors.“Hit rates were high and similar for the experimental and AF2 structures, as were affinities.”
   2. UncheckedA cryo-EM structure of a potent 5-HT2A ligand found by AlphaFold2 docking showed residue adjustments resembling the AlphaFold2 prediction.“Determination of the cryo–electron microscopy structure for one of the more potent 5-HT2A ligands from the AF2 docking revealed residue accommodations that resembled the AF2 prediction.”

2. Computer Science › Computational Drug Discovery Methods

   AlphaFold3 for Structure-guided Ligand Discovery

   Menon, Davasam, Chen et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025

   The authors compared AlphaFold3 co-folding with conventional DOCK3 docking for ligand discovery, in retrospective tests, pose reproduction, and a prospective sigma-2 receptor screen with a crystal structure.

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   1. Unchecked“First, retrospective enrichment of actives over decoys showed that AF3 outperforms the physics-based docking program DOCK3 across 43 drug targets in DUDE-Z; however, this advantage is largely driven by hidden ligand-only biases inherent to computational deco…
   2. UncheckedIn a prospective screen against the sigma-2 receptor, AlphaFold3 had about half the hit rate of DOCK3, with similar affinities among the top five hits.“However, compared with the parallel DOCK3 campaign, AF3 delivered a two-fold lower hit rate, despite yielding a similar affinity distribution among the top five hits.”