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The development of novel pharmaceuticals represents a significant challenge in modern science, with substantial costs and time investments. Deep generative models have emerged as promising tools for accelerating drug discovery by…

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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…

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Molecular discovery has brought great benefits to the chemical industry. Various molecule design techniques are developed to identify molecules with desirable properties. Traditional optimization methods, such as genetic algorithms,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-05 Chris Zhuang , Debadyuti Mukherjee , Yingzhou Lu , Tianfan Fu , Ruqi Zhang

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

The quality of mesh generation has long been considered a vital aspect in providing engineers with reliable simulation results throughout the history of the Finite Element Method (FEM). The element extraction method, which is currently the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Hua Tong

Predicting stable and metastable structures is central to molecular and materials discovery, but remains limited by the cost of searching high-dimensional energy landscapes. Deep generative models offer efficient structure sampling, yet…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yifang Qin , Yu Shi , Junfu Tan , Chang Liu , Ming Zhang , Ziheng Lu

There exists a broad class of sequencing problems, for example, in proteins and polymers that can be formulated as a heuristic search algorithm that involve decision making akin to a computer game. AI gaming algorithms such as Monte Carlo…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-08 Tarak K Patra , Troy D. Loeffler , Subramanian K R S Sankaranarayanan

In this work, we propose the novel Prototypical Graph Regression Self-explainable Trees (ProGReST) model, which combines prototype learning, soft decision trees, and Graph Neural Networks. In contrast to other works, our model can be used…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-29 Dawid Rymarczyk , Daniel Dobrowolski , Tomasz Danel

Generating novel molecules is challenging, with most representations leading to generative models producing many invalid molecules. Spanning Tree-based Graph Generation (STGG) is a promising approach to ensure the generation of valid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Aristide Baratin , Kisoo Kwon , Boris Knyazev , Yan Zhang

Predicting synergistic drug combinations can help accelerate discovery of cancer treatments, particularly therapies personalized to a patient's specific tumor via biopsied cells. In this paper, we propose a novel setting and models for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Carl Edwards , Aakanksha Naik , Tushar Khot , Martin Burke , Heng Ji , Tom Hope

Molecular conformation generation (MCG) is a fundamental and important problem in drug discovery. Many traditional methods have been developed to solve the MCG problem, such as systematic searching, model-building, random searching,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gengmo Zhou , Zhifeng Gao , Zhewei Wei , Hang Zheng , Guolin Ke

Ionizable lipids are essential in developing lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for effective messenger RNA (mRNA) delivery. While traditional methods for designing new ionizable lipids are typically time-consuming, deep generative models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jingyi Zhao , Yuxuan Ou , Austin Tripp , Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Retrosynthetic planning, which aims to find a reaction pathway to synthesize a target molecule, plays an important role in chemistry and drug discovery. This task is usually modeled as a search problem. Recently, data-driven methods have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Shufang Xie , Rui Yan , Peng Han , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Chenjuan Guo , Bin Yang , Tao Qin

Cancer cell lines have frequently been used to link drug sensitivity and resistance with genomic profiles. To capture genomic complexity in cancer, the Cancer Genome Project (CGP) (Garnett et al., 2012) screened 639 human tumor cell lines…

Applications · Statistics 2017-02-09 Hongmei Liu , J. Sunil Rao

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

The design of molecules and materials with tailored properties is challenging, as candidate molecules must satisfy multiple competing requirements that are often difficult to measure or compute. While molecular structures, produced through…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Julia Westermayr , Joe Gilkes , Rhyan Barrett , Reinhard J. Maurer

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

The intersection of artificial intelligence and bioinformatics has enabled significant advancements in drug discovery, particularly through the application of machine learning models. In this study, we present a combined approach using…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-15 Ricardo Romero

High-dimensional design spaces underpin a wide range of physics-based modeling and computational design tasks in science and engineering. These problems are commonly formulated as constrained black-box searches over rugged objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Suvo Banik , Troy D. Loeffler , Henry Chan , Sukriti Manna , Orcun Yildiz , Tom Peterka , Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

Finding drug-like compounds with high bioactivity is essential for drug discovery, but the task is complicated by the high cost of chemical synthesis and validation. With their outstanding performance in de novo drug design, deep generative…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-03 Yibo Li , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai