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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Jaehyeong Jo , Seul Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Designing new chemical compounds with desired pharmaceutical properties is a challenging task and takes years of development and testing. Still, a majority of new drugs fail to prove efficient. Recent success of deep generative modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Karina Zadorozhny , Lada Nuzhna

Due to the vast design space of molecules, generating molecules conditioned on a specific sub-structure relevant to a particular function or therapeutic target is a crucial task in computer-aided drug design. Existing works mainly focus on…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-24 Qi Zhengyang , Liu Zijing , Zhang Jiying , Cao He , Li Yu

Generative deep learning has become pivotal in molecular design for drug discovery, materials science, and chemical engineering. A widely used paradigm is to pretrain neural networks on string representations of molecules and fine-tune them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jonathan Pirnay , Jan G. Rittig , Alexander B. Wolf , Martin Grohe , Jakob Burger , Alexander Mitsos , Dominik G. Grimm

The ultimate goal of drug design is to find novel compounds with desirable pharmacological properties. Designing molecules retaining particular scaffolds as the core structures of the molecules is one of the efficient ways to obtain…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-06 Yibo Li , Jianxing Hu , Yanxing Wang , Jielong Zhou , Liangren Zhang , Zhenming Liu

To design a drug given a biological molecule by using deep learning methods, there are many successful models published recently. People commonly used generative models to design new molecules given certain protein. LiGAN was regarded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Haotian Zhang , Linxiaoyi Wan

The discovery of functional molecules is an expensive and time-consuming process, exemplified by the rising costs of small molecule therapeutic discovery. One class of techniques of growing interest for early-stage drug discovery is de novo…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-18 Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley

We consider the problem of molecular graph generation using deep models. While graphs are discrete, most existing methods use continuous latent variables, resulting in inaccurate modeling of discrete graph structures. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Youzhi Luo , Keqiang Yan , Shuiwang Ji

Optimizing chemical properties is a challenging task due to the vastness and complexity of chemical space. Here, we present a generative energy-based architecture for implicit chemical property optimization, designed to efficiently generate…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-19 Luca Miglior , Lorenzo Simone , Marco Podda , Davide Bacciu

It remains a challenging task to generate a vast variety of novel compounds with desirable pharmacological properties. In this work, a generative network complex (GNC) is proposed as a new platform for designing novel compounds, predicting…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-01 Christopher Grow , Kaifu Gao , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

Generating molecular graphs is crucial in drug design and discovery but remains challenging due to the complex interdependencies between nodes and edges. While diffusion models have demonstrated their potentiality in molecular graph design,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Xiaoyang Hou , Tian Zhu , Milong Ren , Dongbo Bu , Xin Gao , Chunming Zhang , Shiwei Sun

The problem of molecular generation has received significant attention recently. Existing methods are typically based on deep neural networks and require training on large datasets with tens of thousands of samples. In practice, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Minghao Guo , Veronika Thost , Beichen Li , Payel Das , Jie Chen , Wojciech Matusik

Graphs are ubiquitous data structures for representing interactions between entities. With an emphasis on the use of graphs to represent chemical molecules, we explore the task of learning to generate graphs that conform to a distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Qi Liu , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt , Alexander L. Gaunt

De novo molecular design has facilitated the exploration of large chemical space to accelerate drug discovery. Structure-based de novo method can overcome the data scarcity of active ligands by incorporating drug-target interaction into…

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In genome-scale constraint-based metabolic models, gene deletion strategies are essential for achieving growth-coupled production, where cell growth and target metabolite synthesis occur simultaneously. Despite the inherently networked…

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In this work, we introduce a method to fine-tune a Transformer-based generative model for molecular de novo design. Leveraging the superior sequence learning capacity of Transformers over Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), our model can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Pengcheng Xu , Tao Feng , Tianfan Fu , Siddhartha Laghuvarapu , Jimeng Sun

Predicting molecular properties with data-driven methods has drawn much attention in recent years. Particularly, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various molecular generation and prediction tasks. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-19 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Hao Wang , Chengqiang Lu , Chee-Kong Lee

Self-supervised neural language models have recently found wide applications in generative design of organic molecules and protein sequences as well as representation learning for downstream structure classification and functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-21 Lai Wei , Nihang Fu , Yuqi Song , Qian Wang , Jianjun Hu

We study how to generate molecule conformations (i.e., 3D structures) from a molecular graph. Traditional methods, such as molecular dynamics, sample conformations via computationally expensive simulations. Recently, machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Minkai Xu , Shitong Luo , Yoshua Bengio , Jian Peng , Jian Tang

Controllable molecular graph generation is essential for material and drug discovery, where generated molecules must satisfy diverse property constraints. While recent advances in graph diffusion models have improved generation quality,…

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