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Molecular structure generation is a fundamental problem that involves determining the 3D positions of molecules' constituents. It has crucial biological applications, such as molecular docking, protein folding, and molecular design. Recent…

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Molecular property prediction is an important problem in drug discovery and materials science. As geometric structures have been demonstrated necessary for molecular property prediction, 3D information has been combined with various graph…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-04 Xu Wang , Huan Zhao , Weiwei Tu , Quanming Yao

The task of deducing three-dimensional molecular configurations from their two-dimensional graph representations holds paramount importance in the fields of computational chemistry and pharmaceutical development. The rapid advancement of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Bobin Yang , Jie Deng , Zhenghan Chen , Ruoxue Wu

We present a data-driven generative framework for synthesizing blood vessel 3D geometry. This is a challenging task due to the complexity of vascular systems, which are highly variating in shape, size, and structure. Existing model-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Paula Feldman , Miguel Fainstein , Viviana Siless , Claudio Delrieux , Emmanuel Iarussi

Drug development is a critical but notoriously resource- and time-consuming process. In this manuscript, we develop a novel generative artificial intelligence (genAI) method DiffSMol to facilitate drug development. DiffSmol generates 3D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ziqi Chen , Bo Peng , Tianhua Zhai , Daniel Adu-Ampratwum , Xia Ning

Learning on 3D structures of large biomolecules is emerging as a distinct area in machine learning, but there has yet to emerge a unifying network architecture that simultaneously leverages the graph-structured and geometric aspects of the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-18 Bowen Jing , Stephan Eismann , Patricia Suriana , Raphael J. L. Townshend , Ron Dror

We present VoxBind, a new score-based generative model for 3D molecules conditioned on protein structures. Our approach represents molecules as 3D atomic density grids and leverages a 3D voxel-denoising network for learning and generation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Arian Jamasb , Omar Mahmood , Vishnu Sresht , Saeed Saremi

Without knowledge of specific pockets, generating ligands based on the global structure of a protein target plays a crucial role in drug discovery as it helps reduce the search space for potential drug-like candidates in the pipeline.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-02 Nhat Khang Ngo , Truong Son Hy

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) leverages the three-dimensional geometry of proteins to identify potential drug candidates. Traditional approaches, rooted in physicochemical modeling and domain expertise, are often resource-intensive.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Zaixi Zhang , Jiaxian Yan , Yining Huang , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen , Mengdi Wang , Marinka Zitnik

Deep generative models have been applied with increasing success to the generation of two dimensional molecules as SMILES strings and molecular graphs. In this work we describe for the first time a deep generative model that can generate 3D…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Tomohide Masuda , Matthew Ragoza , David Ryan Koes

Deep generative models for graphs have exhibited promising performance in ever-increasing domains such as design of molecules (i.e, graph of atoms) and structure prediction of proteins (i.e., graph of amino acids). Existing work typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Wenbin Zhang , Liming Zhang , Dieter Pfoser , Liang Zhao

Generating molecules with high binding affinities to target proteins (a.k.a. structure-based drug design) is a fundamental and challenging task in drug discovery. Recently, deep generative models have achieved remarkable success in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-24 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance in generating realistic objects and have been successfully applied to images, text, and videos. Recent work has shown that diffusion can also be defined on graphs, including graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Alex M. Tseng , Nathaniel Diamant , Tommaso Biancalani , Gabriele Scalia

Generative deep learning has become pivotal in molecular design for drug discovery, materials science, and chemical engineering. A widely used paradigm is to pretrain neural networks on string representations of molecules and fine-tune them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jonathan Pirnay , Jan G. Rittig , Alexander B. Wolf , Martin Grohe , Jakob Burger , Alexander Mitsos , Dominik G. Grimm

In recent years, deep learning techniques have made significant strides in molecular generation for specific targets, driving advancements in drug discovery. However, existing molecular generation methods present significant limitations:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Taojie Kuang , Qianli Ma , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Yu Wang , Qiang , Cheng , Zhixiang Ren

Graphs are ubiquitous data structures for representing interactions between entities. With an emphasis on the use of graphs to represent chemical molecules, we explore the task of learning to generate graphs that conform to a distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Qi Liu , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt , Alexander L. Gaunt

Predicting the 3D conformation of small molecules within protein binding sites is a key challenge in drug design. When a crystallized reference ligand (template) is available, it provides geometric priors that can guide 3D pose prediction.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-03 Noémie Bergues , Arthur Carré , Paul Join-Lambert , Brice Hoffmann , Arnaud Blondel , Hamza Tajmouati

Recently, deep generative models for molecular graphs are gaining more and more attention in the field of de novo drug design. A variety of models have been developed to generate topological structures of drug-like molecules, but…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-16 Yibo Li , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools to accurately predict materials and molecular properties in computational discovery pipelines. In this article, we exploit the invertible nature of these neural networks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Félix Therrien , Edward H. Sargent , Oleksandr Voznyy