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While generative models have recently become ubiquitous in many scientific areas, less attention has been paid to their evaluation. For molecular generative models, the state-of-the-art examines their output in isolation or in relation to…

"How to evaluate the de novo designs proposed by a generative model?" Despite the transformative potential of generative deep learning in drug discovery, this seemingly simple question has no clear answer. The absence of standardized…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-14 Rıza Özçelik , Francesca Grisoni

Traditional drug discovery programs are being transformed by the advent of machine learning methods. Among these, Generative AI methods (GM) have gained attention due to their ability to design new molecules and enhance specific properties…

Graph generation techniques are increasingly being adopted for drug discovery. Previous graph generation approaches have utilized relatively small molecular building blocks such as atoms or simple cycles, limiting their effectiveness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Wengong Jin , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

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

In the scope of drug discovery, the molecular design aims to identify novel compounds from the chemical space where the potential drug-like molecules are estimated to be in the order of 10^60 - 10^100. Since this search task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Wenlu Wang , Ye Wang , Honggang Zhao , Simone Sciabola

The goal of most materials discovery is to discover materials that are superior to those currently known. Fundamentally, this is close to extrapolation, which is a weak point for most machine learning models that learn the probability…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-08 Hyunseung Kim , Haeyeon Choi , Dongju Kang , Won Bo Lee , Jonggeol Na

Designing molecules with desirable physiochemical properties and functionalities is a long-standing challenge in chemistry, material science, and drug discovery. Recently, machine learning-based generative models have emerged as promising…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-26 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Enhong Chen

The recent success of large foundation models in artificial intelligence has prompted the emergence of chemical pre-trained models. Despite the growing interest in large molecular pre-trained models that provide informative representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jinho Chang , Jong Chul Ye

Developing new molecular compounds is crucial to address pressing challenges, from health to environmental sustainability. However, exploring the molecular space to discover new molecules is difficult due to the vastness of the space. Here…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Manuel Ruiz-Botella , Marta Sales-Pardo , Roger Guimerà

Generating molecules that bind to specific proteins is an important but challenging task in drug discovery. Previous works usually generate atoms in an auto-regressive way, where element types and 3D coordinates of atoms are generated one…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-16 Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Odin Zhang , Siqi Ma , Meng Liu , Xuanjing Li , Lirong Wu , Jishui Wang , Tingjun Hou , Stan Z. Li

Searching for novel molecules with desired chemical properties is crucial in drug discovery. Existing work focuses on developing neural models to generate either molecular sequences or chemical graphs. However, it remains a big challenge to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-22 Yutong Xie , Chence Shi , Hao Zhou , Yuwei Yang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Lei Li

Generative models have demonstrated remarkable abilities in generating high-fidelity visual content. In this work, we explore how generative models can further be used not only to synthesize visual content but also to understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yanbo Wang , Justin Dauwels , Yilun Du

We study a fundamental problem in structure-based drug design -- generating molecules that bind to specific protein binding sites. While we have witnessed the great success of deep generative models in drug design, the existing methods are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-15 Shitong Luo , Jiaqi Guan , Jianzhu Ma , Jian Peng

Drug discovery using deep learning has attracted a lot of attention of late as it has obvious advantages like higher efficiency, less manual guessing and faster process time. In this paper, we present a novel neural network for generating…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-08 Abhinav Sagar

Generative artificial intelligence models learn probability distributions from data and produce novel samples that capture the salient properties of their training sets. Proteins are particularly attractive for such approaches given their…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Filippo Stocco , Michele Garibbo , Noelia Ferruz

Structure-based drug design involves finding ligand molecules that exhibit structural and chemical complementarity to protein pockets. Deep generative methods have shown promise in proposing novel molecules from scratch (de-novo design),…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-09 Pavol Drotár , Arian Rokkum Jamasb , Ben Day , Cătălina Cangea , Pietro Liò

Recent breakthroughs in generative modeling have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in molecular generation, yet the integration of comprehensive biomedical knowledge into these models has remained an untapped frontier. In this study, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aditya Malusare , Vineet Punyamoorty , Vaneet Aggarwal

Drug discovery is a complex process that involves multiple stages and tasks. However, existing molecular generative models can only tackle some of these tasks. We present Generalist Molecular generative model (GenMol), a versatile framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Seul Lee , Karsten Kreis , Srimukh Prasad Veccham , Meng Liu , Danny Reidenbach , Yuxing Peng , Saee Paliwal , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat