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Progress in using deep learning to treat cancer

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Deep learning approaches have potential to substantially reduce the astronomical costs and long timescales involved in drug discovery. KarmaDock proposes a deep learning workflow for ligand docking that shows improved performance against both benchmark cases and in a real-world virtual screening experiment.

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Fig. 1: Overview of the KarmaDock workflow7.

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