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The process of screening molecules for desirable properties is a key step in several applications, ranging from drug discovery to material design. During the process of drug discovery specifically, protein-ligand docking, or chemical…

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Recently, deep generative models have revealed itself as a promising way of performing de novo molecule design. However, previous research has focused mainly on generating SMILES strings instead of molecular graphs. Although current graph…

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A significant challenge in wet lab experiments with current drug design generative models is the trade-off between pharmacological properties and synthesizability. Molecules predicted to have highly desirable properties are often difficult…

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Single-step retrosynthesis aims to predict a set of reactions that lead to the creation of a target molecule, which is a crucial task in molecular discovery. Although a target molecule can often be synthesized with multiple different…

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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

Retrosynthesis prediction is one of the fundamental challenges in organic chemistry and related fields. The goal is to find reactants molecules that can synthesize product molecules. To solve this task, we propose a new graph-to-graph…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-20 Zaiyun Lin , Shiqiu Yin , Lei Shi , Wenbiao Zhou , YingSheng Zhang

Identification and verification of molecular properties such as side effects is one of the most important and time-consuming steps in the process of molecule synthesis. For example, failure to identify side effects before submission to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-12 Collin Beaudoin , Koustubh Phalak , Swaroop Ghosh

Deep generative models are able to suggest new organic molecules by generating strings, trees, and graphs representing their structure. While such models allow one to generate molecules with desirable properties, they give no guarantees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 John Bradshaw , Brooks Paige , Matt J. Kusner , Marwin H. S. Segler , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Retrosynthesis, which predicts the reactants of a given target molecule, is an essential task for drug discovery. In recent years, the machine learing based retrosynthesis methods have achieved promising results. In this work, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shufang Xie , Rui Yan , Junliang Guo , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Tao Qin

Stochastic process-based molecular graph generators have become the state of the art for template-free single-step retrosynthesis. However, these models are typically trained only on product-reactant pairs, thereby acquiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiahai Huang , Anjie Qiao , Zhen Wang , Defu Lian , Yutong Lu

Machine learning, particularly graph learning, is gaining increasing recognition for its transformative impact across various fields. One such promising application is in the realm of molecule design and discovery, notably within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Nianzu Yang , Huaijin Wu , Kaipeng Zeng , Yang Li , Junchi Yan

The potential number of drug like small molecules is estimated to be between 10^23 and 10^60 while current databases of known compounds are orders of magnitude smaller with approximately 10^8 compounds. This discrepancy has led to an…

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The potential of synthetic biology techniques for designing complex cellular circuits able to solve complicated computations opens a whole domain of exploration, beyond experiments and theory. Such cellular circuits could be used to carry…

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The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in early-stage drug discovery offers unprecedented opportunities for exploring chemical space and accelerating hit-to-lead optimization. However, docking optimization in generative approaches…

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Designing molecular structures with desired chemical properties is an essential task in drug discovery and material design. However, finding molecules with the optimized desired properties is still a challenging task due to combinatorial…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-02 Masatsugu Yamada , Mahito Sugiyama

Retrosynthesis is the task of planning a series of chemical reactions to create a desired molecule from simpler, buyable molecules. While previous works have proposed algorithms to find optimal solutions for a range of metrics (e.g.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Austin Tripp , Krzysztof Maziarz , Sarah Lewis , Marwin Segler , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Deep learning-based approaches for generating novel drug molecules with specific properties have gained a lot of interest in the last few years. Recent studies have demonstrated promising performance for string-based generation of novel…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-18 Hampus Gummesson Svensson , Christian Tyrchan , Ola Engkvist , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

Retrosynthesis is the task of breaking down a chemical compound recursively step-by-step into molecular precursors until a set of commercially available molecules is found. Consequently, the goal is to provide a valid synthesis route for a…

Drug discovery projects entail cycles of design, synthesis, and testing that yield a series of chemically related small molecules whose properties, such as binding affinity to a given target protein, are progressively tailored to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Paul Maragakis , Hunter Nisonoff , Brian Cole , David E. Shaw

Elucidating and accurately predicting the druggability and bioactivities of molecules plays a pivotal role in drug design and discovery and remains an open challenge. Recently, graph neural networks (GNN) have made remarkable advancements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Weimin Zhu , Yi Zhang , DuanCheng Zhao , Jianrong Xu , Ling Wang