Structure, Molecular Dynamics, Assembly, and Evolution of Protein Systems with AI-Enhanced Modeling in Pharmacology and Structural Biology
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 55
Special Issue Editors
Interests: blood coagulation proteins; drug design; inhibitors; molecular dynamics; molecular evolution; protein ligand docking, structural biology, and bioinformatics with Cryo-EM techniques; AI (ML, DL, NNs) in chemoinformatics and bioinformatics
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Interests: proteomics; PPI; bioinformatics; DNA-repairing proteins
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Progress in protein biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology, and medicine cannot currently occur without an understanding of the structure, assembly, dynamics, and evolution of protein systems, as well as rational drug design. This Special Issue aims to highlight both experimental and computational advances in the characterization of protein folding, stability, assembly, and interactions, with a particular focus on protein–ligand systems and drug-target mechanisms.
We welcome submissions on molecular dynamics simulations, protein evolution, structural bioinformatics, or ligand docking. Of particular interest are studies that integrate machine learning (ML) techniques with deep learning (DL) and Neural Networks (NNs) with cheminformatics to elucidate structure–function relationships, discover novel bioactive compounds, or model receptor-binding processes, including those for challenging protein classes. Appropriate experimental validation is essential for studies mainly relying on computational methods.
The Special Issue invites original research articles and reviews at the intersection of experimental validation and computational innovation, including studies that utilize AI-enhanced modeling in pharmacology, biophysics, and structural biology.
We hope to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives from structural biochemistry, systems biology, and bioinformatics, and to foster collaborative advances in the future of computational molecular science.
Dr. Michal Blazej Ponczek
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Ragab AbdelGawwad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- machine learning in structural biology
- molecular dynamics simulations
- protein–ligand interactions
- computational pharmacology
- structure-based drug design
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