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Rapid discovery of new reactions and molecules in recent years has been facilitated by the advancements in high throughput screening, accessibility to a much more complex chemical design space, and the development of accurate molecular…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-28 Vipul Mann , Venkat Venkatasubramanian

We address a fundamental problem in chemistry known as chemical reaction product prediction. Our main insight is that the input reactant and reagent molecules can be jointly represented as a graph, and the process of generating product…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

We propose a new model for making generalizable and diverse retrosynthetic reaction predictions. Given a target compound, the task is to predict the likely chemical reactants to produce the target. This generative task can be framed as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Benson Chen , Tianxiao Shen , Tommi S. Jaakkola , Regina Barzilay

Modeling molecules as undirected graphs and chemical reactions as graph rewriting operations is a natural and convenient approach tom odeling chemistry. Graph grammar rules are most naturally employed to model elementary reactions like…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-08-17 Jakob L. Andersen , Christoph Flamm , Daniel Merkle , Peter F. Stadler

Predicting enzyme-substrate interactions has long been a fundamental problem in biochemistry and metabolic engineering. While existing methods could leverage databases of expert-curated enzyme-substrate pairs for models to learn from known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Tengwei Song , Long Yin , Zhen Han , Zhiqiang Xu

In this paper, we propose a new method to identify biochemical reaction networks (i.e. both reactions and kinetic parameters) from heterogeneous datasets. Such datasets can contain (a) data from several replicates of an experiment performed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Wei Pan , Ye Yuan , Lennart Ljung , Jorge Goncalves , Guy-Bart Stan

Atomized chemical knowledge, such as functional group information of molecules and reactions, plays a pivotal intermediate role in the reasoning process that connects molecular structures with their properties and reactivities. While large…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zihan Zhao , Ziping Wan , Lu Chen , Xuanze Lin , Shiyang Yu , Situo Zhang , Da Ma , Zichen Zhu , Danyang Zhang , Huayang Wang , Zhongyang Dai , Liyang Wen , Bo Chen , Xin Chen , Kai Yu

While automated chemical tools excel at specific tasks, they have struggled to capture the strategic thinking that characterizes expert chemical reasoning. Here we demonstrate that large language models (LLMs) can serve as powerful tools…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Andres M Bran , Theo A Neukomm , Daniel P Armstrong , Zlatko Jončev , Philippe Schwaller

Deep generative models are able to suggest new organic molecules by generating strings, trees, and graphs representing their structure. While such models allow one to generate molecules with desirable properties, they give no guarantees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 John Bradshaw , Brooks Paige , Matt J. Kusner , Marwin H. S. Segler , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Prediction of complete step-by-step chemical reaction mechanisms (CRMs) remains a major challenge. Whereas the traditional approaches in CRM tasks rely on expert-driven experiments or costly quantum chemical computations, contemporary deep…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Manajit Das , Ajnabiul Hoque , Mayank Baranwal , Raghavan B. Sunoj

The chemical reaction recommendation is to select proper reaction condition parameters for chemical reactions, which is pivotal to accelerating chemical science. With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), there is growing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Cheng Yang , Jiaxuan Lu , Haiyuan Wan , Junchi Yu , Feiwei Qin

Advancements in artificial intelligence for molecular science are necessitating a paradigm shift from purely data-driven predictions to knowledge-guided computational reasoning. Existing molecular models are predominantly proprietary,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Pengfei Liu , Shuang Ge , Jun Tao , Zhixiang Ren

Network models are widely used as structural summaries of biochemical systems. Statistical estimation of networks is usually based on linear or discrete models. However, the dynamics of these systems are generally nonlinear, suggesting that…

Applications · Statistics 2014-06-03 C. J. Oates , F. Dondelinger , N. Bayani , J. Korola , J. W. Gray , S. Mukherjee

Retrosynthesis prediction is a fundamental problem in organic synthesis, where the task is to identify precursor molecules that can be used to synthesize a target molecule. A key consideration in building neural models for this task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Vignesh Ram Somnath , Charlotte Bunne , Connor W. Coley , Andreas Krause , Regina Barzilay

Retrosynthesis analysis is pivotal yet challenging in drug discovery and organic chemistry. Despite the proliferation of computational tools over the past decade, AI-based systems often fall short in generalizing across diverse reaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yifei Yang , Runhan Shi , Zuchao Li , Shu Jiang , Bao-Liang Lu , Yang Yang , Hai Zhao

Accurately predicting chemical reactions is essential for driving innovation in synthetic chemistry, with broad applications in medicine, manufacturing, and agriculture. At the same time, reaction prediction is a complex problem which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Ryan J. Miller , Alexander E. Dashuta , Brayden Rudisill , David Van Vranken , Pierre Baldi

A detailed algorithmic explanation is required for how a network of chemical reactions can generate the sophisticated behavior displayed by living cells. Though several previous works have shown that reaction networks are computationally…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Muppirala Viswa Virinchi , Abhishek Behera , Manoj Gopalkrishnan

The essence of a chemical reaction lies in the redistribution and reorganization of electrons, which is often manifested through electron transfer or the migration of electron pairs. These changes are inherently discrete and abrupt in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Haitao Lin , Junjie Wang , Zhifeng Gao , Xiaohong Ji , Rong Zhu , Linfeng Zhang , Guolin Ke , Weinan E

The prediction of organic reaction outcomes is a fundamental problem in computational chemistry. Since a reaction may involve hundreds of atoms, fully exploring the space of possible transformations is intractable. The current solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Wengong Jin , Connor W. Coley , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Due to the intrinsic complexity and nonlinearity of chemical reactions, direct applications of traditional machine learning algorithms may face with many difficulties. In this study, through two concrete examples with biological background,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-02 Wuyue Yang , Liangrong Peng , Yi Zhu , Liu Hong