PoseBusters: AI-based docking methods fail to generate physically valid poses or generalise to novel sequences
Predicting how small molecules (or “ligands”) bind to proteins and other macromolecules like DNA and RNA is an important part of computer-aided drug discovery. Oxford Protein Informatics Group DPhil Student, Martin Buttenschoen, Professor Charlotte Deane and Professor Garrett M. Morris recently examined how well deep learning-based methods can dock a ligand into a protein pocket.