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Designing new chemical compounds with desired pharmaceutical properties is a challenging task and takes years of development and testing. Still, a majority of new drugs fail to prove efficient. Recent success of deep generative modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Karina Zadorozhny , Lada Nuzhna

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for molecular generation, particularly in the context of 3D molecular structures. Inspired by non-equilibrium statistical physics, these models can generate 3D molecular structures with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Amira Alakhdar , Barnabas Poczos , Newell Washburn

Computationally generating novel synthetically accessible compounds with high affinity and low toxicity is a great challenge in drug design. Machine-learning models beyond conventional pharmacophoric methods have shown promise in generating…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-30 Nicholas T. Runcie , Antonia S. J. S. Mey

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is an essential challenge in structure-based drug design. Despite recent advances in data-driven methods for affinity prediction, their accuracy is still limited, partially because…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Yaosen Min , Ye Wei , Peizhuo Wang , Xiaoting Wang , Han Li , Nian Wu , Stefan Bauer , Shuxin Zheng , Yu Shi , Yingheng Wang , Ji Wu , Dan Zhao , Jianyang Zeng

In the era of AI-driven science and engineering, we often want to design discrete objects in silico according to user-specified properties. For example, we may wish to design a protein to bind its target, arrange components within a circuit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 James C. Bowden , Sergey Levine , Jennifer Listgarten

Generative AI poses both opportunities and risks for solving inverse design problems in the sciences. Generative tools provide the ability to expand and refine a search space autonomously, but do so at the cost of exploring low-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Marcus Schwarting , Logan Ward , Nathaniel Hudson , Xiaoli Yan , Ben Blaiszik , Santanu Chaudhuri , Eliu Huerta , Ian Foster

Recent advances in generative deep learning have transformed small molecule design, but most methods lack biological systems context, focusing narrowly on specific protein pockets. We introduce a non-differentiable diffusion guidance method…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-15 Vincent D. Zaballa , Elliot E. Hui

Conventional generative models for materials discovery are predominantly trained and validated using data from Density Functional Theory (DFT) with approximate exchange-correlation functionals. This creates a fundamental bottleneck: these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mahule Roy

Optimizing techniques for discovering molecular structures with desired properties is crucial in artificial intelligence(AI)-based drug discovery. Combining deep generative models with reinforcement learning has emerged as an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jinyeong Park , Jaegyoon Ahn , Jonghwan Choi , Jibum Kim

AI-powered drug discovery typically relies on the successful prediction of compound-protein interactions, which are pivotal for the evaluation of designed compound molecules in structure-based drug design and represent a core challenge in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-22 Pingfei Zhu , Chenyang Zhao , Haishi Zhao , Bo Yang

Computational discovery of ideal lead compounds is a critical process for modern drug discovery. It comprises multiple stages: hit screening, molecular property prediction, and molecule optimization. Current efforts are disparate, involving…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-24 Yueming Yin , Haifeng Hu , Zhen Yang , Jitao Yang , Chun Ye , Jiansheng Wu , Wilson Wen Bin Goh

Longer timelines and lower success rates of drug candidates limit the productivity of clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry. Promising de novo drug design techniques help solve this by exploring a broader chemical space,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-05 Ishir Rao

De novo drug design is a pivotal issue in pharmacology and a new area of focus in AI for science research. A central challenge in this field is to generate molecules with specific properties while also producing a wide range of diverse…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-15 Xiuyuan Hu , Guoqing Liu , Yang Zhao , Hao Zhang

Recent advances in fast sampling methods for diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential to accelerate generation on image modalities. We apply these methods to 3-dimensional molecular conformations by building on the recently…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-23 Romain Lacombe , Neal Vaidya

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

With the rapid advancement of AI technologies, generative models have been increasingly employed in the exploration of novel materials. By integrating traditional computational approaches such as density functional theory (DFT) and…

The intersection of artificial intelligence and bioinformatics has enabled significant advancements in drug discovery, particularly through the application of machine learning models. In this study, we present a combined approach using…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-15 Ricardo Romero

Many generative applications, such as synthesis-based 3D molecular design, involve constructing compositional objects with continuous features. Here, we introduce Compositional Generative Flows (CGFlow), a novel framework that extends flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tony Shen , Seonghwan Seo , Ross Irwin , Kieran Didi , Simon Olsson , Woo Youn Kim , Martin Ester

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

Machine learning is revolutionizing chemistry. Beyond the value of predictive models accelerating virtual screening, generative AI aims at enabling inverse design, reversing the compound-to-property prediction paradigm into…