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Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong ability in generating rich representations across domains such as natural language processing and generation, computer vision, and multimodal learning. However, their application in biomedical…

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This research focuses on rational pesticide design, using graph machine learning to accelerate the development of safer, eco-friendly agrochemicals, inspired by in silico methods in drug discovery. With an emphasis on ecotoxicology, the…

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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…

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Machine learning in drug discovery has been focused on virtual screening of molecular libraries using discriminative models. Generative models are an entirely different approach that learn to represent and optimize molecules in a continuous…

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Designing therapeutic peptides with tailored properties is hindered by the vastness of sequence space, limited experimental data, and poor interpretability of current generative models. To address these challenges, we introduce PepThink-R1,…

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De novo design of molecules has recently enjoyed the power of generative deep neural networks. Current approaches aim to generate molecules either resembling the properties of the molecules of the training set or molecules that are…

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To generate drug molecules of desired properties with computational methods is the holy grail in pharmaceutical research. Here we describe an AI strategy, retro drug design, or RDD, to generate novel small molecule drugs from scratch to…

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