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The primary objective of most lead optimization campaigns is to enhance the binding affinity of ligands. For large molecules such as antibodies, identifying mutations that enhance antibody affinity is particularly challenging due to the…

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The scarcity of experimental protein-ligand complexes poses a significant challenge for training robust deep learning models for molecular docking. Given the prohibitive cost and time constraints associated with experimental structure…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Sofiene Khiari , Matthew R. Masters , Amr H. Mahmoud , Markus A. Lill

Small-molecule foundation models are typically pretrained on standalone molecular data, unlike vision and language models that often benefit from cross-modal or relational supervision. Protein-ligand co-folding provides a molecular analogue…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-25 Hyosoon Jang , Hyunjin Seo , Honghui Kim , Seonghyun Park , Taewon Kim , Yunhui Jang , Sungsoo Ahn

Deploying generative machine learning techniques to generate novel chemical structures based on molecular fingerprint representation has been well established in molecular design. Typically, sequential learning (SL) schemes such as hidden…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-07 Mohammad Sajjad Ghaemi , Karl Grantham , Isaac Tamblyn , Yifeng Li , Hsu Kiang Ooi

Simultaneously optimizing molecules against multiple therapeutic targets remains a profound challenge in drug discovery, particularly due to sparse rewards and conflicting design constraints. We propose a structured active learning (AL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Júlia Vilalta-Mor , Alexis Molina , Laura Ortega Varga , Isaac Filella-Merce , Victor Guallar

Although machine learning has been successfully used to propose novel molecules that satisfy desired properties, it is still challenging to explore a large chemical space efficiently. In this paper, we present a conditional molecular design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Seokho Kang , Kyunghyun Cho

As vast databases of chemical identities become increasingly available, the challenge shifts to how we effectively explore and leverage these resources to study molecular properties. This paper presents an active learning approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Ayana Ghosh , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

Machine learning and especially deep learning has had an increasing impact on molecule and materials design. In particular, given the growing access to an abundance of high-quality small molecule data for generative modeling for drug…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Shehtab Zaman , Denis Akhiyarov , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Kenneth Chiu

Inspired by the success of deep learning techniques in the physical and chemical sciences, we apply a modification of an autoencoder type deep neural network to the task of dimension reduction of molecular dynamics data. We can show that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-04 Christoph Wehmeyer , Frank Noé

Probabilistic generative deep learning for molecular design involves the discovery and design of new molecules and analysis of their structure, properties and activities by probabilistic generative models using the deep learning approach.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Daniel T. Chang

Adapting generative Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) into universal embedding models typically demands resource-intensive contrastive pre-training, while traditional hard negative mining methods suffer from severe false negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yeong-Joon Ju , Seong-Whan Lee

Virtual Screening is an essential technique in the early phases of drug discovery, aimed at identifying promising drug candidates from vast molecular libraries. Recently, ligand-based virtual screening has garnered significant attention due…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-22 Gengmo Zhou , Zhen Wang , Feng Yu , Guolin Ke , Zhewei Wei , Zhifeng Gao

In the field of Structure-based Drug Design (SBDD), deep learning-based generative models have achieved outstanding performance in terms of docking score. However, further study shows that the existing molecular generative methods and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-21 Bowen Gao , Minsi Ren , Yuyan Ni , Yanwen Huang , Bo Qiang , Zhi-Ming Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Recent advancements in deep learning-based modeling of molecules promise to accelerate in silico drug discovery. A plethora of generative models is available, building molecules either atom-by-atom and bond-by-bond or fragment-by-fragment.…

We propose an active learning method for discovering low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional Gaussian process (GP) tasks. Such problems are increasingly frequent and important, but have hitherto presented severe practical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-28 Roman Garnett , Michael A. Osborne , Philipp Hennig

"How to evaluate the de novo designs proposed by a generative model?" Despite the transformative potential of generative deep learning in drug discovery, this seemingly simple question has no clear answer. The absence of standardized…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-14 Rıza Özçelik , Francesca Grisoni

Virtual, make-on-demand chemical libraries have transformed early-stage drug discovery by unlocking vast, synthetically accessible regions of chemical space. Recent years have witnessed rapid growth in these libraries from millions to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-10 Aryan Pedawi , Pawel Gniewek , Chaoyi Chang , Brandon M. Anderson , Henry van den Bedem

We propose a novel computational strategy for de novo design of molecules with desired properties termed ReLeaSE (Reinforcement Learning for Structural Evolution). Based on deep and reinforcement learning approaches, ReLeaSE integrates two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Mariya Popova , Olexandr Isayev , Alexander Tropsha

Accurate prediction and optimization of protein-protein binding affinity is crucial for therapeutic antibody development. Although machine learning-based prediction methods $\Delta\Delta G$ are suitable for large-scale mutant screening,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-19 Kairi Furui , Masahito Ohue

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have propelled the development of innovative computational materials modeling and design techniques. Generative deep learning models have been used for molecular representation, discovery, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Navid Shervani-Tabar , Nicholas Zabaras