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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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-24 Yibo Li , Liangren Zhang , Zhenming Liu

Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) has revolutionized drug discovery by enabling the rational design of molecules for specific protein targets. Despite significant advancements in improving docking scores, advanced 3D-SBDD generative models…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-04 Bowen Gao , Yanwen Huang , Yiqiao Liu , Wenxuan Xie , Wei-Ying Ma , Ya-Qin Zhang , Yanyan Lan

In recent years, AI-assisted drug design methods have been proposed to generate molecules given the pockets' structures of target proteins. Most of them are atom-level-based methods, which consider atoms as basic components and generate…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-19 Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Odin Zhang , Lirong Wu , Siyuan Li , Zhiyuan Chen , Stan Z. Li

Searching new molecules in areas like drug discovery often starts from the core structures of candidate molecules to optimize the properties of interest. The way as such has called for a strategy of designing molecules retaining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Jaechang Lim , Sang-Yeon Hwang , Seungsu Kim , Seokhyun Moon , Woo Youn Kim

The generation of ligands that both are tailored to a given protein pocket and exhibit a range of desired chemical properties is a major challenge in structure-based drug design. Here, we propose an in-silico approach for the $\textit{de…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-27 Julian Cremer , Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert , Kristof T. Schütt

Currently, the field of structure-based drug design is dominated by three main types of algorithms: search-based algorithms, deep generative models, and reinforcement learning. While existing works have typically focused on comparing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Kangyu Zheng , Kai Zhang , Jiale Tan , Xuehan Chen , Yingzhou Lu , Zaixi Zhang , Lichao Sun , Marinka Zitnik , Tianfan Fu , Zhiding Liang

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to generate 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein targets. Existing 3D deep generative models including diffusion models have shown great promise for SBDD. However, it is complex to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-01 Zhilin Huang , Ling Yang , Zaixi Zhang , Xiangxin Zhou , Yu Bao , Xiawu Zheng , Yuwei Yang , Yu Wang , Wenming Yang

The de novo design of molecular structures using deep learning generative models introduces an encouraging solution to drug discovery in the face of the continuously increased cost of new drug development. From the generation of original…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-08 Yuemin Bian , Xiang-Qun Xie

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

Three-dimensional molecular structure generation is typically performed at the level of individual atoms, yet molecular graph generation techniques often consider fragments as their structural units. Building on the advances in frame-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Roman Poletukhin , Marcel Kollovieh , Eike Eberhard , Stephan Günnemann

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of deep learning bears promise for drug discovery and chemical biology, $\textit{e.g.}$, to predict protein structure and molecular bioactivity, plan organic synthesis, and design molecules…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-29 Rıza Özçelik , Derek van Tilborg , José Jiménez-Luna , Francesca Grisoni

In the field of computational molecule generation, an essential task in the discovery of new chemical compounds, fragment-based deep generative models are a leading approach, consistently achieving state-of-the-art results in molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-10 Sergei Voloboev

Currently, the field of structure-based drug design is dominated by three main types of algorithms: search-based algorithms, deep generative models, and reinforcement learning. While existing works have typically focused on comparing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kangyu Zheng , Yingzhou Lu , Zaixi Zhang , Zhongwei Wan , Yao Ma , Marinka Zitnik , Tianfan Fu

Deep learning has proven to yield fast and accurate predictions of quantum-chemical properties to accelerate the discovery of novel molecules and materials. As an exhaustive exploration of the vast chemical space is still infeasible, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-10 Niklas W. A. Gebauer , Michael Gastegger , Kristof T. Schütt

Machine learning has the potential to automate molecular design and drastically accelerate the discovery of new functional compounds. Towards this goal, generative models and reinforcement learning (RL) using string and graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Daniel Flam-Shepherd , Alexander Zhigalin , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Developing bioactive molecules remains a central, time- and cost-heavy challenge in drug discovery, particularly for novel targets lacking structural or functional data. Pharmacophore modeling presents an alternative for capturing the key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Amira Alakhdar , Barnabas Poczos , Newell Washburn

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

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

Predicting the 3D conformation of small molecules within protein binding sites is a key challenge in drug design. When a crystallized reference ligand (template) is available, it provides geometric priors that can guide 3D pose prediction.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-03 Noémie Bergues , Arthur Carré , Paul Join-Lambert , Brice Hoffmann , Arnaud Blondel , Hamza Tajmouati

Deep generative models have achieved tremendous success in structure-based drug design in recent years, especially for generating 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein pocket. Notably, diffusion models have transformed ligand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Daiheng Zhang , Chengyue Gong , Qiang Liu