Pub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2024.3469178
Haixi Zhang;Jiahui Yang;Chenyan Lv;Xing Wei;Haibin Han;Bin Liu
Apple leaf diseases can seriously affect apple production and quality, and accurately detecting them can improve the efficiency of disease monitoring. Owing to the complex natural growth environment, apple leaf lesions may be easily confused with background noise, leading to poor performance. In this study, a cascaded Incremental Region Proposal Network (Inc-RPN) is proposed to accurately detect apple leaf diseases in natural environments. The proposed Inc-RPN has a two-layer RPN architecture, where the precursor RPN is leveraged to generate diseased leaf proposals, and the successor RPN focuses on extracting target disease spots based on diseased leaf proposals. In the successor RPN, a low-level feature aggregation module is designed to fully utilize the bridged features and preserve the semantic information of the target disease spots. An incremental module is also leveraged to extract aggregated diseased leaf features and target disease spot features. Finally, a novel position anchor generator is designed to generate anchors based on diseased leaf proposals. The experimental results show that the proposed Inc-RPN performs very well on the FALD_CED and Apple Leaf Disease datasets, showing that it can accurately perform apple leaf disease detection tasks.
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AutoDock Vina and its derivatives have established themselves as a prevailing pipeline for virtual screening in contemporary drug discovery. Our Vina-GPU method leverages the parallel computing power of GPUs to accelerate AutoDock Vina, and Vina-GPU 2.0 further enhances the speed of AutoDock Vina and its derivatives. Given the prevalence of large virtual screens in modern drug discovery, the improvement of speed and accuracy in virtual screening has become a longstanding challenge. In this study, we propose Vina-GPU 2.1, aimed at enhancing the docking speed and precision of AutoDock Vina and its derivatives through the integration of novel algorithms to facilitate improved docking and virtual screening outcomes. Building upon the foundations laid by Vina-GPU 2.0, we introduce a novel algorithm, namely Reduced Iteration and Low Complexity BFGS (RILC-BFGS), designed to expedite the most time-consuming operation. Additionally, we implement grid cache optimization to further enhance the docking speed. Furthermore, we employ optimal strategies to individually optimize the structures of ligands, receptors, and binding pockets, thereby enhancing the docking precision. To assess the performance of Vina-GPU 2.1, we conduct extensive virtual screening experiments on three prominent targets, utilizing two fundamental compound libraries and seven docking tools. Our results demonstrate that Vina-GPU 2.1 achieves an average 4.97-fold acceleration in docking speed and an average 342% improvement in EF1% compared to Vina-GPU 2.0.
{"title":"Vina-GPU 2.1: Towards Further Optimizing Docking Speed and Precision of AutoDock Vina and Its Derivatives","authors":"Shidi Tang;Ji Ding;Xiangyu Zhu;Zheng Wang;Haitao Zhao;Jiansheng Wu","doi":"10.1109/TCBB.2024.3467127","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TCBB.2024.3467127","url":null,"abstract":"AutoDock Vina and its derivatives have established themselves as a prevailing pipeline for virtual screening in contemporary drug discovery. Our Vina-GPU method leverages the parallel computing power of GPUs to accelerate AutoDock Vina, and Vina-GPU 2.0 further enhances the speed of AutoDock Vina and its derivatives. Given the prevalence of large virtual screens in modern drug discovery, the improvement of speed and accuracy in virtual screening has become a longstanding challenge. In this study, we propose Vina-GPU 2.1, aimed at enhancing the docking speed and precision of AutoDock Vina and its derivatives through the integration of novel algorithms to facilitate improved docking and virtual screening outcomes. Building upon the foundations laid by Vina-GPU 2.0, we introduce a novel algorithm, namely Reduced Iteration and Low Complexity BFGS (RILC-BFGS), designed to expedite the most time-consuming operation. Additionally, we implement grid cache optimization to further enhance the docking speed. Furthermore, we employ optimal strategies to individually optimize the structures of ligands, receptors, and binding pockets, thereby enhancing the docking precision. To assess the performance of Vina-GPU 2.1, we conduct extensive virtual screening experiments on three prominent targets, utilizing two fundamental compound libraries and seven docking tools. Our results demonstrate that Vina-GPU 2.1 achieves an average 4.97-fold acceleration in docking speed and an average 342% improvement in EF1% compared to Vina-GPU 2.0.","PeriodicalId":13344,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"21 6","pages":"2382-2393"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2024.3467093
Runchang Jia;Zhijie He;Cong Wang;Xudong Guo;Fuyi Li
Protein-metal ion interactions play a central role in the onset of numerous diseases. When amino acid changes lead to missense mutations in metal-binding sites, the disrupted interaction with metal ions can compromise protein function, potentially causing severe human ailments. Identifying these disease-associated mutation sites within metal-binding regions is paramount for understanding protein function and fostering innovative drug development. While some computational methods aim to tackle this challenge, they often fall short in accuracy, commonly due to manual feature extraction and the absence of structural data. We introduce MetalPrognosis, an innovative, alignment-free solution that predicts disease-associated mutations within metal-binding sites of metalloproteins with heightened precision. Rather than relying on manual feature extraction, MetalPrognosis employs sliding window sequences as input, extracting deep semantic insights from pre-trained protein language models. These insights are then incorporated into a convolutional neural network, facilitating the derivation of intricate features. Comparative evaluations show MetalPrognosis outperforms leading methodologies like MCCNN and M-Ionic across various metalloprotein test sets. Furthermore, an ablation study reiterates the effectiveness of our model architecture.
{"title":"MetalPrognosis: A Biological Language Model-Based Approach for Disease-Associated Mutations in Metal-Binding Site Prediction","authors":"Runchang Jia;Zhijie He;Cong Wang;Xudong Guo;Fuyi Li","doi":"10.1109/TCBB.2024.3467093","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TCBB.2024.3467093","url":null,"abstract":"Protein-metal ion interactions play a central role in the onset of numerous diseases. When amino acid changes lead to missense mutations in metal-binding sites, the disrupted interaction with metal ions can compromise protein function, potentially causing severe human ailments. Identifying these disease-associated mutation sites within metal-binding regions is paramount for understanding protein function and fostering innovative drug development. While some computational methods aim to tackle this challenge, they often fall short in accuracy, commonly due to manual feature extraction and the absence of structural data. We introduce MetalPrognosis, an innovative, alignment-free solution that predicts disease-associated mutations within metal-binding sites of metalloproteins with heightened precision. Rather than relying on manual feature extraction, MetalPrognosis employs sliding window sequences as input, extracting deep semantic insights from pre-trained protein language models. These insights are then incorporated into a convolutional neural network, facilitating the derivation of intricate features. Comparative evaluations show MetalPrognosis outperforms leading methodologies like MCCNN and M-Ionic across various metalloprotein test sets. Furthermore, an ablation study reiterates the effectiveness of our model architecture.","PeriodicalId":13344,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"21 6","pages":"2340-2348"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alignment-free analysis of sequences has revolutionized the high-throughput processing of sequencing data within numerous bioinformatics pipelines. Hashing $k$