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We explore a "best-of-both" approach to modelling molecular properties by combining learned molecular descriptors from a graph neural network (GNN) with general-purpose descriptors and a mixed ensemble of machine learning (ML) models. We…

Accurate prediction of drug-target binding affinity can accelerate drug discovery by prioritizing promising compounds before costly wet-lab screening. While deep learning has advanced this task, most models fuse ligand and protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Mohammadsaleh Refahi , Bahrad A. Sokhansanj , James R. Brown , Gail Rosen

Predicting drug side-effects before they occur is a key task in keeping the number of drug-related hospitalizations low and to improve drug discovery processes. Automatic predictors of side-effects generally are not able to process the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-01 Pietro Bongini , Elisa Messori , Niccolò Pancino , Monica Bianchini

Graph neural networks (GNNs) demonstrate great performance in compound property and activity prediction due to their capability to efficiently learn complex molecular graph structures. However, two main limitations persist including…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-10 Apakorn Kengkanna , Masahito Ohue

In this study, we present a framework aimed at enhancing molecular property prediction through the integration of local descriptors obtained from large-scale pretrained machine learning potentials into three-dimensional graph neural…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Ryoichi Uchiyama , Yuya Nakajima , Yuta Tanaka , Junji Seino

The field of drug discovery hinges on the accurate prediction of binding affinity between prospective drug molecules and target proteins, especially when such proteins directly influence disease progression. However, estimating binding…

Binding affinity optimization is crucial in early-stage drug discovery. While numerous machine learning methods exist for predicting ligand potency, their comparative efficacy remains unclear. This study evaluates the performance of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-30 Nikolai Schapin , Carles Navarro , Albert Bou , Gianni De Fabritiis

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is an essential challenge in structure-based drug design. Despite recent advances in data-driven methods for affinity prediction, their accuracy is still limited, partially because…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Yaosen Min , Ye Wei , Peizhuo Wang , Xiaoting Wang , Han Li , Nian Wu , Stefan Bauer , Shuxin Zheng , Yu Shi , Yingheng Wang , Ji Wu , Dan Zhao , Jianyang Zeng

Predicting molecular properties is a critical component of drug discovery. Recent advances in deep learning, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), have enabled end-to-end learning from molecular structures, reducing reliance on manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Peng Zhou , Lai Hou Tim , Zhixiang Cheng , Kun Xie , Chaoyi Li , Wei Liu , Xiangxiang Zeng

As the size of accessible compound libraries expands to over 10 billion, the need for more efficient structure-based virtual screening methods is emerging. Different pre-screening methods have been developed for rapid screening, but there…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Seonghwan Seo , Woo Youn Kim

Predicting accurate protein-ligand binding affinity is important in drug discovery but remains a challenge even with computationally expensive biophysics-based energy scoring methods and state-of-the-art deep learning approaches. Despite…

Molecular property prediction plays a fundamental role in drug discovery to identify candidate molecules with target properties. However, molecular property prediction is essentially a few-shot problem which makes it hard to use regular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Yaqing Wang , Abulikemu Abuduweili , Quanming Yao , Dejing Dou

In recent years machine learning (ML) took bio- and cheminformatics fields by storm, providing new solutions for a vast repertoire of problems related to protein sequence, structure, and interactions analysis. ML techniques, deep neural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-31 Marta M. Stepniewska-Dziubinska , Piotr Zielenkiewicz , Pawel Siedlecki

The recent success of graph neural networks has significantly boosted molecular property prediction, advancing activities such as drug discovery. The existing deep neural network methods usually require large training dataset for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Zhichun Guo , Chuxu Zhang , Wenhao Yu , John Herr , Olaf Wiest , Meng Jiang , Nitesh V. Chawla

Predicting drug properties is key in drug discovery to enable de-risking of assets before expensive clinical trials, and to find highly active compounds faster. Interest from the Machine Learning community has led to the release of a…

Accurate prediction of molecular properties is essential in drug discovery and related fields. However, existing graph neural networks (GNNs) often struggle to simultaneously capture both local and global molecular structures. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 XiaYu Liu , Chao Fan , Yang Liu , Hou-biao Li

The Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Elimination, and Toxicity (ADMET) properties of drug candidates are estimated to account for up to 50% of all clinical trial failures. Predicting ADMET properties has therefore been of great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Evan N. Feinberg , Robert Sheridan , Elizabeth Joshi , Vijay S. Pande , Alan C. Cheng

Predicting the solubility of given molecules remains crucial in the pharmaceutical industry. In this study, we revisited this extensively studied topic, leveraging the capabilities of contemporary computing resources. We employed two…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-08 John Ho , Zhao-Heng Yin , Colin Zhang , Nicole Guo , Yang Ha

The quest for accurate prediction of drug molecule properties poses a fundamental challenge in the realm of Artificial Intelligence Drug Discovery (AIDD). An effective representation of drug molecules emerges as a pivotal component in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Zhuoyuan Wang , Jiacong Mi , Shan Lu , Jieyue He

Virtual screening can accelerate drug discovery by identifying promising candidates for experimental evaluation. Machine learning is a powerful method for screening, as it can learn complex structure-property relationships from experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Simon Axelrod , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli