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Drug discovery can be viewed as a combinatorial search over an immense chemical space, motivating the development of deep generative models for de novo molecular design. Among these, GPT-based molecular language models (MLM) have shown…

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Recent breakthroughs in generative modeling have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in molecular generation, yet the integration of comprehensive biomedical knowledge into these models has remained an untapped frontier. In this study, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aditya Malusare , Vineet Punyamoorty , Vaneet Aggarwal

To design a drug given a biological molecule by using deep learning methods, there are many successful models published recently. People commonly used generative models to design new molecules given certain protein. LiGAN was regarded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Haotian Zhang , Linxiaoyi Wan

Machine learning in drug discovery has been focused on virtual screening of molecular libraries using discriminative models. Generative models are an entirely different approach that learn to represent and optimize molecules in a continuous…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-17 Matthew Ragoza , Tomohide Masuda , David Ryan Koes

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

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

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

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

Goal-directed molecular generation requires satisfying heterogeneous constraints such as protein--ligand compatibility and multi-objective drug-like properties, yet existing methods often optimize these constraints in isolation, failing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yanting Li , Zhuoyang Jiang , Enyan Dai , Lei Wang , Wen-Cai Ye , Li Liu

Drug discovery using deep learning has attracted a lot of attention of late as it has obvious advantages like higher efficiency, less manual guessing and faster process time. In this paper, we present a novel neural network for generating…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-08 Abhinav Sagar

Traditional drug design faces significant challenges due to inherent chemical and biological complexities, often resulting in high failure rates in clinical trials. Deep learning advancements, particularly generative models, offer potential…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-27 Mahsa Sheikholeslami , Navid Mazrouei , Yousof Gheisari , Afshin Fasihi , Matin Irajpour , Ali Motahharynia

Molecular generation, an essential method for identifying new drug structures, has been supported by advancements in machine learning and computational technology. However, challenges remain in multi-objective generation, model…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-11 Ningfeng Liu , Jie Yu , Siyu Xiu , Xinfang Zhao , Siyu Lin , Bo Qiang , Ruqiu Zheng , Hongwei Jin , Liangren Zhang , Zhenming Liu

Fragment-based drug discovery is an effective strategy for discovering drug candidates in the vast chemical space, and has been widely employed in molecular generative models. However, many existing fragment extraction methods in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Seul Lee , Seanie Lee , Kenji Kawaguchi , Sung Ju Hwang

Materials discovery is decisive for tackling urgent challenges related to energy, the environment, health care and many others. In chemistry, conventional methodologies for innovation usually rely on expensive and incremental strategies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Daniel Schwalbe-Koda , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in early-stage drug discovery offers unprecedented opportunities for exploring chemical space and accelerating hit-to-lead optimization. However, docking optimization in generative approaches…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-03 Ekaterina Podplutova , Anastasia Vepreva , Olga A. Konovalova , Vladimir Vinogradov , Dmitrii O. Shkil , Andrei Dmitrenko

In recent years the scientific community has devoted much effort in the development of deep learning models for the generation of new molecules with desirable properties (i.e. drugs). This has produced many proposals in literature. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Davide Rigoni , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

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

De novo molecular design attempts to search over the chemical space for molecules with the desired property. Recently, deep learning has gained considerable attention as a promising approach to solve the problem. In this paper, we propose…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-28 Sungsoo Ahn , Junsu Kim , Hankook Lee , Jinwoo Shin

The discovery of new energetic materials remains a pressing challenge hindered by limited availability of high-quality data. To address this, we have developed generative molecular language models that have been pretrained on extensive…

The widespread application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques has significantly influenced the development of new therapeutic agents. These computational methods can be used to design and predict the properties of generated…

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