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Models based on machine learning can enable accurate and fast molecular property predictions, which is of interest in drug discovery and material design. Various supervised machine learning models have demonstrated promising performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jerret Ross , Brian Belgodere , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Inkit Padhi , Youssef Mroueh , Payel Das

Molecular property prediction is an increasingly critical task within drug discovery and development. Typically, neural networks can learn molecular properties using graph-based, language-based or feature-based methods. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Philip Spence , Brooks Paige , Anne Osbourn

Protein-ligand binding affinity (PLBA) prediction is the fundamental task in drug discovery. Recently, various deep learning-based models predict binding affinity by incorporating the three-dimensional structure of protein-ligand complexes…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-21 Jiaxian Yan , Zhaofeng Ye , Ziyi Yang , Chengqiang Lu , Shengyu Zhang , Qi Liu , Jiezhong Qiu

Chemical autoencoders are attractive models as they combine chemical space navigation with possibilities for de-novo molecule generation in areas of interest. This enables them to produce focused chemical libraries around a single lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Esben Jannik Bjerrum , Boris Sattarov

In drug discovery, predicting the absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity (ADMET) properties of small-molecule drugs is critical for ensuring safety and efficacy. However, the process of accurately predicting these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Bohao Xu , Yingzhou Lu , Chenhao Li , Ling Yue , Xiao Wang , Tianfan Fu , Minjie Shen , Lulu Chen

Predicting peptide--major histocompatibility complex I (pMHC-I) binding affinity remains challenging due to extreme allelic diversity ($\sim$30,000 HLA alleles), severe data scarcity for most alleles, and noisy experimental measurements.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-18 Sergio E. Mares , Ariel Espinoza Weinberger , Nilah M. Ioannidis

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is crucial for drug development. Recent advances in machine learning show promising results on this task. However, these methods typically rely heavily on labeled data, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Meng Liu , Saee Gopal Paliwal

In recent decades, antibodies have emerged as indispensable therapeutics for combating diseases, particularly viral infections. However, their development has been hindered by limited structural information and labor-intensive engineering…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-01 Hongtai Jing , Zhengtao Gao , Sheng Xu , Tao Shen , Zhangzhi Peng , Shwai He , Tao You , Shuang Ye , Wei Lin , Siqi Sun

This study assesses the efficiency of several popular machine learning approaches in the prediction of molecular binding affinity: CatBoost, Graph Attention Neural Network, and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Oleksandr Gurbych , Maksym Druchok , Dzvenymyra Yarish , Sofiya Garkot

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

An in-depth insight into the chemistry and nature of the individual chemical bonds is essential for understanding materials. Bonding analysis is thus expected to provide important features for large-scale data analysis and machine learning…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-19 Aakash Ashok Naik , Christina Ertural , Nidal Dhamrait , Philipp Benner , Janine George

Chemical reaction and retrosynthesis prediction are fundamental tasks in drug discovery. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in many domains. However, directly applying LLMs to these tasks faces two major challenges:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xuan Lin , Qingrui Liu , Hongxin Xiang , Daojian Zeng , Xiangxiang Zeng

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are expanding in popularity for broad applications to challenging tasks in chemistry and materials science. Examples include the prediction of properties, the discovery of new reaction…

Empirical scoring functions based on either molecular force fields or cheminformatics descriptors are widely used, in conjunction with molecular docking, during the early stages of drug discovery to predict potency and binding affinity of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Joseph Gomes , Bharath Ramsundar , Evan N. Feinberg , Vijay S. Pande

Large Language Models are versatile, general-purpose tools with a wide range of applications. Recently, the advent of "reasoning models" has led to substantial improvements in their abilities in advanced problem-solving domains such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Nicholas T. Runcie , Charlotte M. Deane , Fergus Imrie

The quantum Hamiltonian is a fundamental property that governs a molecule's electronic structure and behavior, and its calculation and prediction are paramount in computational chemistry and materials science. Accurate prediction is highly…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhenzhong Wang , Yongjie Hou , Chenggong Huang , Yuxuan Du , Dacheng Tao , Min Jiang

The increasing integration of large language models (LLMs) across various fields has heightened concerns about their potential to propagate dangerous information. This paper specifically explores the security vulnerabilities of LLMs within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Aidan Wong , He Cao , Zijing Liu , Yu Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success and have been applied across various scientific fields, including chemistry. However, many chemical tasks require the processing of visual information, which cannot be…

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful tool for scientific discovery in chemistry, yet its efficiency is often hampered by the sparse experimental data and vast search space. Here, we introduce ChemBOMAS: a large language model…

The cornerstone of computational drug design is the calculation of binding affinity between two biological counterparts, especially a chemical compound, i.e., a ligand, and a protein. Predicting the strength of protein-ligand binding with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-04 Yanjun Li , Mohammad A. Rezaei , Chenglong Li , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu