Tetrapeptide inhibitors of BACE-1 revealed by combined data-driven screening and physics-based free-energy refinement.
An integrated machine learning-to- free energy perturbation (FEP) pipeline is reported, combining XGBoost-based screening, molecular docking, replicate explicit-solvent molecular dynamics (MD), and absolute FEP calculations, as a multi-stage alternative to single-scoring approaches for tetrapeptide lead discovery again...