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Graph generation techniques are increasingly being adopted for drug discovery. Previous graph generation approaches have utilized relatively small molecular building blocks such as atoms or simple cycles, limiting their effectiveness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Wengong Jin , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

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

It is well known that Drug Design is often a costly process both in terms of time and economic effort. While good Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship models (QSAR) can help predicting molecular properties without the need to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-14 Dylan Savoia , Alessio Ragno , Roberto Capobianco

Graph neural networks (GNNs), as topology/structure-aware models within deep learning, have emerged as powerful tools for AI-aided drug discovery (AIDD). By directly operating on molecular graphs, GNNs offer an intuitive and expressive…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-10 Odin Zhang , Haitao Lin , Xujun Zhang , Xiaorui Wang , Zhenxing Wu , Qing Ye , Weibo Zhao , Jike Wang , Kejun Ying , Yu Kang , Chang-yu Hsieh , Tingjun Hou

Molecule generation is central to a variety of applications. Current attention has been paid to approaching the generation task as subgraph prediction and assembling. Nevertheless, these methods usually rely on hand-crafted or external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Xiangzhe Kong , Wenbing Huang , Zhixing Tan , Yang Liu

Machine learning plays an increasingly important role in many areas of chemistry and materials science, e.g. to predict materials properties, to accelerate simulations, to design new materials, and to predict synthesis routes of new…

Deep generative models have achieved great success in areas such as image, speech, and natural language processing in the past few years. Thanks to the advances in graph-based deep learning, and in particular graph representation learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Faezeh Faez , Yassaman Ommi , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Hamid R. Rabiee

Graphs are widely used as a popular representation of the network structure of connected data. Graph data can be found in a broad spectrum of application domains such as social systems, ecosystems, biological networks, knowledge graphs, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Feng Xia , Ke Sun , Shuo Yu , Abdul Aziz , Liangtian Wan , Shirui Pan , Huan Liu

Machine learning on graphs is an important and ubiquitous task with applications ranging from drug design to friendship recommendation in social networks. The primary challenge in this domain is finding a way to represent, or encode, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-11 William L. Hamilton , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec

Graphs are central to the chemical sciences, providing a natural language to describe molecules, proteins, reactions, and industrial processes. They capture interactions and structures that underpin materials, biology, and medicine. This…

The fundamental goal of generative drug design is to propose optimized molecules that meet predefined activity, selectivity, and pharmacokinetic criteria. Despite recent progress, we argue that existing generative methods are limited in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Julien Horwood , Emmanuel Noutahi

Learning distributions of graphs can be used for automatic drug discovery, molecular design, complex network analysis, and much more. We present an improved framework for learning generative models of graphs based on the idea of deep state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Julian Stier , Michael Granitzer

With the development of computer-assisted techniques, research communities including biochemistry and deep learning have been devoted into the drug discovery field for over a decade. Various applications of deep learning have drawn great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wenhao Hu , Yingying Liu , Xuanyu Chen , Wenhao Chai , Hangyue Chen , Hongwei Wang , Gaoang Wang

We study how to generate molecule conformations (i.e., 3D structures) from a molecular graph. Traditional methods, such as molecular dynamics, sample conformations via computationally expensive simulations. Recently, machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Minkai Xu , Shitong Luo , Yoshua Bengio , Jian Peng , Jian Tang

Generating novel graph structures that optimize given objectives while obeying some given underlying rules is fundamental for chemistry, biology and social science research. This is especially important in the task of molecular graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Jiaxuan You , Bowen Liu , Rex Ying , Vijay Pande , Jure Leskovec

Designing a network to learn a molecule structure given its physical/chemical properties is a hard problem, but is useful for drug discovery tasks. In this paper, we incorporate higher-order relational learning of Factor Graphs with strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hieu Le Trung , Yiqing Xu , Wee Sun Lee

Graph neural networks (GNNs), which are capable of learning representations from graphical data, are naturally suitable for modeling molecular systems. This review introduces GNNs and their various applications for small organic molecules.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yuyang Wang , Zijie Li , Amir Barati Farimani

Predicating macroscopic influences of drugs on human body, like efficacy and toxicity, is a central problem of small-molecule based drug discovery. Molecules can be represented as an undirected graph, and we can utilize graph convolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Junying Li , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Molecular generation plays an important role in drug discovery and materials science, especially in data-scarce scenarios where traditional generative models often struggle to achieve satisfactory conditional generalization. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zimo Yan , Jie Zhang , Zheng Xie , Chang Liu , Yizhen Liu , Yiping Song

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), a generalization of deep neural networks on graph data have been widely used in various domains, ranging from drug discovery to recommender systems. However, GNNs on such applications are limited when there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Debmalya Mandal , Sourav Medya , Brian Uzzi , Charu Aggarwal