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Deep learning-based approaches for generating novel drug molecules with specific properties have gained a lot of interest in the last few years. Recent studies have demonstrated promising performance for string-based generation of novel…

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Molecule design is a fundamental problem in molecular science and has critical applications in a variety of areas, such as drug discovery, material science, etc. However, due to the large searching space, it is impossible for human experts…

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This paper demonstrates that language models are strong structure-based protein designers. We present LM-Design, a generic approach to reprogramming sequence-based protein language models (pLMs), that have learned massive sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Zaixiang Zheng , Yifan Deng , Dongyu Xue , Yi Zhou , Fei YE , Quanquan Gu

A pharmacological effect of a drug on cells, organs and systems refers to the specific biochemical interaction produced by a drug substance, which is called its mechanism of action. Drug repositioning (or drug repurposing) is a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Dehua Chen , Amir Jalilifard , Adriano Veloso , Nivio Ziviani

The optimal design of compounds through manipulating properties at the molecular level is often the key to considerable scientific advances and improved process systems performance. This paper highlights key trends, challenges, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-13 Abdulelah S. Alshehri , Rafiqul Gani , Fengqi You

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

Deep generative models have shown significant promise in generating valid 3D molecular structures, with the GEOM-Drugs dataset serving as a key benchmark. However, current evaluation protocols suffer from critical flaws, including incorrect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Filipp Nikitin , Ian Dunn , David Ryan Koes , Olexandr Isayev

Ground-state 3D geometries of molecules are essential for many molecular analysis tasks. Modern quantum mechanical methods can compute accurate 3D geometries but are computationally prohibitive. Currently, an efficient alternative to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Zhao Xu , Yaochen Xie , Youzhi Luo , Xuan Zhang , Xinyi Xu , Meng Liu , Kaleb Dickerson , Cheng Deng , Maho Nakata , Shuiwang Ji

Structure-Based drug design (SBDD) has emerged as a popular approach in drug discovery, leveraging three-dimensional protein structures to generate drug ligands. However, existing generative models encounter several key challenges: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qingsong Zhong , Haomin Yu , Yan Lin , Wangmeng Shen , Long Zeng , Jilin Hu

In biomedical applications of machine learning, relevant information often has a rich structure that is not easily encoded as real-valued predictors. Examples of such data include DNA or RNA sequences, gene sets or pathways, gene…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-16 Jake Crawford , Casey S. Greene

De novo molecule generation allows the search for more drug-like hits across a vast chemical space. However, lead optimization is still required, and the process of optimizing molecular structures faces the challenge of balancing structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiebin Fang , Churu Mao , Yuchen Zhu , Xiaoming Chen , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Zhongjun Ma

Drug discovery remains a slow and expensive process that involves many steps, from detecting the target structure to obtaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is often riddled with safety concerns. Accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-22 Ali Vefghi , Zahed Rahmati , Mohammad Akbari

Geometric deep learning has been revolutionizing the molecular modeling field. Despite the state-of-the-art neural network models are approaching ab initio accuracy for molecular property prediction, their applications, such as drug…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Yusong Wang , Shaoning Li , Xinheng He , Mingyu Li , Zun Wang , Nanning Zheng , Bin Shao , Tie-Yan Liu , Tong Wang

Deep learning in molecular and materials sciences is limited by the lack of integration between applied science, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing. Bottlenecks with respect to the amount of training data, the size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Nathan C. Frey , Siddharth Samsi , Joseph McDonald , Lin Li , Connor W. Coley , Vijay Gadepally

Why and how that deep learning works well on different tasks remains a mystery from a theoretical perspective. In this paper we draw a geometric picture of the deep learning system by finding its analogies with two existing geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Xiao Dong , Jiasong Wu , Ling Zhou

Recent remarkable advancements in geometric deep generative models, coupled with accumulated structural data, enable structure-based drug design (SBDD) using only target protein information. However, existing models often struggle to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-09 Joongwon Lee , Wonho Zhung , Jisu Seo , Woo Youn Kim

Traditional drug discovery programs are being transformed by the advent of machine learning methods. Among these, Generative AI methods (GM) have gained attention due to their ability to design new molecules and enhance specific properties…

Accurate prediction of compound-protein interactions (CPI) remains a cornerstone challenge in computational drug discovery. While existing sequence-based approaches leverage molecular fingerprints or graph representations, they critically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ngoc-Quang Nguyen

Proteins are sequences of amino acids that serve as the basic building blocks of living organisms. Despite rapidly growing databases documenting structural and functional information for various protein sequences, our understanding of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-06 Weihang Dai

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) is crucial for developing specific and effective therapeutics against protein targets but remains challenging due to complex protein-ligand interactions and vast chemical space. Although language models…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-20 Cong Fu , Xiner Li , Blake Olson , Heng Ji , Shuiwang Ji