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Recently, 3D generative models have shown promising performances in structure-based drug design by learning to generate ligands given target binding sites. However, only modeling the target-ligand distribution can hardly fulfill one of the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-22 Xiangxin Zhou , Xiwei Cheng , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu

Discovering new drug molecules is a pivotal yet challenging process due to the near-infinitely large chemical space and notorious demands on time and resources. Numerous generative models have recently been introduced to accelerate the drug…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Shitong Luo , Wenhao Gao , Zuofan Wu , Jian Peng , Connor W. Coley , Jianzhu Ma

Designing molecules with desirable physiochemical properties and functionalities is a long-standing challenge in chemistry, material science, and drug discovery. Recently, machine learning-based generative models have emerged as promising…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-26 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Enhong Chen

Structure-based and ligand-based computational drug design have traditionally relied on disjoint data sources and modeling assumptions, limiting their joint use at scale. In this work, we introduce Contrastive Geometric Learning for Unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lisa Schneckenreiter , Sohvi Luukkonen , Lukas Friedrich , Daniel Kuhn , Günter Klambauer

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

Designing 3D ligands within a target binding site is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Existing structured-based drug design methods treat all ligand atoms equally, which ignores different roles of atoms in the ligand for drug design…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-14 Jiaqi Guan , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu

De novo molecular design has facilitated the exploration of large chemical space to accelerate drug discovery. Structure-based de novo method can overcome the data scarcity of active ligands by incorporating drug-target interaction into…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-16 Yaqin Li , Lingli Li , Yongjin Xu , Yi Yu

Generating precise 3D molecular geometries is crucial for drug discovery and material science. While prior efforts leverage 1D representations like SELFIES to ensure molecular validity, they fail to fully exploit the rich chemical knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhanpeng Chen , Weihao Gao , Shunyu Wang , Yanan Zhu , Hong Meng , Yuexian Zou

In this paper we study the practicality and usefulness of incorporating distributed representations of graphs into models within the context of drug pair scoring. We argue that the real world growth and update cycles of drug pair scoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Paul Scherer , Pietro Liò , Mateja Jamnik

The generation of ligands that both are tailored to a given protein pocket and exhibit a range of desired chemical properties is a major challenge in structure-based drug design. Here, we propose an in-silico approach for the $\textit{de…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-27 Julian Cremer , Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert , Kristof T. Schütt

Currently, the field of structure-based drug design is dominated by three main types of algorithms: search-based algorithms, deep generative models, and reinforcement learning. While existing works have typically focused on comparing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kangyu Zheng , Yingzhou Lu , Zaixi Zhang , Zhongwei Wan , Yao Ma , Marinka Zitnik , Tianfan Fu

Several generative models with elaborate training and sampling procedures have been proposed to accelerate structure-based drug design (SBDD); however, their empirical performance turns out to be suboptimal. We seek to better understand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rafał Karczewski , Samuel Kaski , Markus Heinonen , Vikas Garg

Generating peptides with desired properties is crucial for drug discovery and biotechnology. Traditional sequence-based and structure-based methods often require extensive datasets, which limits their effectiveness. In this study, we…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-19 Po-Yu Liang , Xueting Huang , Tibo Duran , Andrew J. Wiemer , Jun Bai

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) stands at the forefront of drug discovery, emphasizing the creation of molecules that target specific binding pockets. Recent advances in this area have witnessed the adoption of deep generative models and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-22 Minsi Ren , Bowen Gao , Bo Qiang , Yanyan Lan

Designing molecular structures with desired chemical properties is an essential task in drug discovery and material design. However, finding molecules with the optimized desired properties is still a challenging task due to combinatorial…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-02 Masatsugu Yamada , Mahito Sugiyama

Designing protein-binding proteins with high affinity is critical in biomedical research and biotechnology. Despite recent advancements targeting specific proteins, the ability to create high-affinity binders for arbitrary protein targets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhenqiao Song , Tiaoxiao Li , Lei Li , Martin Renqiang Min

Rich data and powerful machine learning models allow us to design drugs for a specific protein target \textit{in silico}. Recently, the inclusion of 3D structures during targeted drug design shows superior performance to other target-free…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-08 Jiaqi Guan , Wesley Wei Qian , Xingang Peng , Yufeng Su , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Drug discovery aims to find novel compounds with specified chemical property profiles. In terms of generative modeling, the goal is to learn to sample molecules in the intersection of multiple property constraints. This task becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Wengong Jin , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Subgraph-based methods have proven to be effective and interpretable in predicting drug-drug interactions (DDIs), which are essential for medical practice and drug development. Subgraph selection and encoding are critical stages in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Haotong Du , Quanming Yao , Juzheng Zhang , Yang Liu , Zhen Wang

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