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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Hongsong Feng , Rui Wang , Chang-Guo Zhan , Guo-Wei Wei

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionising drug discovery by expediting the prediction of small molecule properties essential for developing new drugs. These properties -- including absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME)--…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Alex G. C. de Sá , David B. Ascher

Discovering novel drug candidate molecules is one of the most fundamental and critical steps in drug development. Generative deep learning models, which create synthetic data given a probability distribution, offer a high potential for…

Drug repurposing has historically been an economically infeasible process for identifying novel uses for abandoned drugs. Modern machine learning has enabled the identification of complex biochemical intricacies in candidate drugs; however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Luke Delzer , Robert Kroleski , Ali K. AlShami , Jugal Kalita

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) is a critical task in drug discovery, requiring the generation of molecular information across two distinct modalities: discrete molecular graphs and continuous 3D coordinates. However, existing SBDD…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xiuyuan Hu , Guoqing Liu , Can Chen , Yang Zhao , Hao Zhang , Xue Liu

Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize drug discovery. Yet, despite recent advances in deep learning, existing models cannot generate molecules that satisfy all desired physicochemical properties. Herein, we describe IDOLpro, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Erika Lloyd , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

Structure-based drug design is drawing growing attentions in computer-aided drug discovery. Compared with the virtual screening approach where a pre-defined library of compounds are computationally screened, de novo drug design based on the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-14 Kehan Wu , Yingce Xia , Yang Fan , Pan Deng , Haiguang Liu , Lijun Wu , Shufang Xie , Tong Wang , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

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

Recently, deep generative models for molecular graphs are gaining more and more attention in the field of de novo drug design. A variety of models have been developed to generate topological structures of drug-like molecules, but…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-16 Yibo Li , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

Machine learning and especially deep learning has had an increasing impact on molecule and materials design. In particular, given the growing access to an abundance of high-quality small molecule data for generative modeling for drug…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Shehtab Zaman , Denis Akhiyarov , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Kenneth Chiu

Developing new drugs is laborious and costly, demanding extensive time investment. In this paper, we introduce a de-novo drug design strategy, which harnesses the capabilities of language models to devise targeted drugs for specific…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-20 Salma J. Ahmed , Emad A. Mohammed

The aim of the inverse chemical design is to develop new molecules with given optimized molecular properties or objectives. Recently, generative deep learning (DL) networks are considered as the state-of-the-art in inverse chemical design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Haoran Wei , Mariefel Olarte , Garrett B. Goh

Efficient design and discovery of target-driven molecules is a critical step in facilitating lead optimization in drug discovery. Current approaches to develop molecules for a target protein are intuition-driven, hampered by slow iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Andrew D. McNaughton , Mridula S. Bontha , Carter R. Knutson , Jenna A. Pope , Neeraj Kumar

The contributions of model complexity, data volume, and feature modalities to knowledge graph-based drug repurposing remain poorly quantified under rigorous temporal validation. We constructed a pharmacology knowledge graph from ChEMBL 36…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Youssef Abo-Dahab , Ruby Hernandez , Ismael Caleb Arechiga Duran

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) leverages the three-dimensional geometry of proteins to identify potential drug candidates. Traditional approaches, rooted in physicochemical modeling and domain expertise, are often resource-intensive.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Zaixi Zhang , Jiaxian Yan , Yining Huang , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen , Mengdi Wang , Marinka Zitnik

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

Structure-based drug discovery (SBDD) is a systematic scientific process that develops new drugs by leveraging the detailed physical structure of the target protein. Recent advancements in pre-trained models for biomolecules have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yiheng Zhu , Mingyang Li , Junlong Liu , Kun Fu , Jiansheng Wu , Qiuyi Li , Mingze Yin , Jieping Ye , Jian Wu , Zheng Wang

Discovering new medicines is the hallmark of human endeavor to live a better and longer life. Yet the pace of discovery has slowed down as we need to venture into more wildly unexplored biomedical space to find one that matches today's high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Tri Minh Nguyen , Thin Nguyen , Truyen Tran

Peptide-based drugs can bind to protein interaction sites that small molecules often cannot, and are easier to produce than large protein drugs. However, designing effective peptide binders is difficult. A typical peptide has an enormous…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-19 Xiaoqiong Xia , Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

In machine learning and molecular design, there exist two approaches: discriminative and generative. In the discriminative approach dubbed forward design, the goal is to map a set of features/molecules to their respective electronics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Alain Tchagang , Julio Valdés