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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

Machine learning (ML) is a promising approach for predicting small molecule properties in drug discovery. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of various ML methods introduced for this purpose in recent years. We review a wide range of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-25 Nikolai Schapin , Maciej Majewski , Alejandro Varela , Carlos Arroniz , Gianni De Fabritiis

The race to meet the challenges of the global pandemic has served as a reminder that the existing drug discovery process is expensive, inefficient and slow. There is a major bottleneck screening the vast number of potential small molecules…

The drug development process is a critical challenge in the pharmaceutical industry due to its time-consuming nature and the need to discover new drug potentials to address various ailments. The initial step in drug development, drug target…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-17 Hezha O. Rasul , Dlzar D. Ghafour , Bakhtyar K. Aziz , Bryar A. Hassan , Tarik A. Rashid , Arif Kivrak

Research around AI for Science has seen significant success since the rise of deep learning models over the past decade, even with longstanding challenges such as protein structure prediction. However, this fast development inevitably made…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Kieran Didi , Matej Zečević

Due to their excellent drug-like and pharmacokinetic properties, small molecule drugs are widely used to treat various diseases, making them a critical component of drug discovery. In recent years, with the rapid development of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Kun Li , Yida Xiong , Hongzhi Zhang , Xiantao Cai , Jia Wu , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

Machine learning has huge potential to revolutionize the field of drug discovery and is attracting increasing attention in recent years. However, lacking domain knowledge (e.g., which tasks to work on), standard benchmarks and data…

In this paper, we review recent developments and the role of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in computational drug discovery, including molecule generation, molecular property prediction, and drug-drug interaction prediction. By summarizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhengyu Fang , Xiaoge Zhang , Anyin Zhao , Xiao Li , Huiyuan Chen , Jing Li

Predicting drug properties is key in drug discovery to enable de-risking of assets before expensive clinical trials, and to find highly active compounds faster. Interest from the Machine Learning community has led to the release of a…

Introduction: Computational modeling has rapidly advanced over the last decades, especially to predict molecular properties for chemistry, material science and drug design. Recently, machine learning techniques have emerged as a powerful…

Despite the great popularity of virtual screening of existing compound libraries, the search for new potential drug candidates also takes advantage of generative protocols, where new compound suggestions are enumerated using various…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-22 Tomasz Danel , Jan Łęski , Sabina Podlewska , Igor T. Podolak

Neural Network (NN) models provide potential to speed up the drug discovery process and reduce its failure rates. The success of NN models require uncertainty quantification (UQ) as drug discovery explores chemical space beyond the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ya Ju Fan , Jonathan E. Allen , Kevin S. McLoughlin , Da Shi , Brian J. Bennion , Xiaohua Zhang , Felice C. Lightstone

Prediction of toxicity levels of chemical compounds is an important issue in Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) modeling. Although toxicity prediction has achieved significant progress in recent times through deep learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Abdul Karim , Jaspreet Singh , Avinash Mishra , Abdollah Dehzangi , M. A. Hakim Newton , Abdul Sattar

Traditional drug discovery is a long, expensive, and complex process. Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are beginning to change this narrative. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of different AI and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Khartik Uppalapati , Eeshan Dandamudi , S. Nick Ice , Gaurav Chandra , Kirsten Bischof , Christian L. Lorson , Kamal Singh

Virtual screening can accelerate drug discovery by identifying promising candidates for experimental evaluation. Machine learning is a powerful method for screening, as it can learn complex structure-property relationships from experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Simon Axelrod , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli

Computer-aided drug discovery is an essential component of modern drug development. Therein, deep learning has become an important tool for rapid screening of billions of molecules in silico for potential hits containing desired chemical…

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

Repurposing existing drugs to treat new diseases is a cost-effective alternative to de novo drug development, but there are millions of potential drug-disease combinations to be considered with only a small fraction being viable. In silico…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-24 Austin Polanco , M. E. J. Newman

Drug combination therapy is a well-established strategy for disease treatment with better effectiveness and less safety degradation. However, identifying novel drug combinations through wet-lab experiments is resource intensive due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zhihang Hu , Qinze Yu , Yucheng Guo , Taifeng Wang , Irwin King , Xin Gao , Le Song , Yu Li

The nexus of quantum computing and machine learning - quantum machine learning - offers the potential for significant advancements in chemistry. This review specifically explores the potential of quantum neural networks on gate-based…