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Molecular generation and molecular property prediction are both crucial for drug discovery, but they are often developed independently. Inspired by recent studies, which demonstrate that diffusion model, a prominent generative approach, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Shikun Feng , Yuyan Ni , Yan Lu , Zhi-Ming Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Drug response prediction (DRP) is a crucial phase in drug discovery, and the most important metric for its evaluation is the IC50 score. DRP results are heavily dependent on the quality of the generated molecules. Existing molecule…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-24 Kun Li , Xiuwen Gong , Shirui Pan , Jia Wu , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence in drug discovery encounters challenges with generalization and extensive training, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promise in reshaping interactions with complex molecular data. Our…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-20 He Cao , Zijing Liu , Xingyu Lu , Yuan Yao , Yu Li

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

Recently, deep generative models have revealed itself as a promising way of performing de novo molecule design. However, previous research has focused mainly on generating SMILES strings instead of molecular graphs. Although current graph…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-24 Yibo Li , Liangren Zhang , Zhenming Liu

The design of molecules and materials with tailored properties is challenging, as candidate molecules must satisfy multiple competing requirements that are often difficult to measure or compute. While molecular structures, produced through…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Julia Westermayr , Joe Gilkes , Rhyan Barrett , Reinhard J. Maurer

Searching the vast chemical space for drug-like molecules that bind with a protein pocket is a challenging task in drug discovery. Recently, structure-based generative models have been introduced which promise to be more efficient by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Tony Shen , Seonghwan Seo , Grayson Lee , Mohit Pandey , Jason R Smith , Artem Cherkasov , Woo Youn Kim , Martin Ester

Machine learning approaches to Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) have proven quite fertile over the last few years. In particular, diffusion-based approaches to SBDD have shown great promise. We present a technique which expands on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Matan Halfon , Eyal Rozenberg , Ehud Rivlin , Daniel Freedman

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

The strict selectivity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) represents one of the most formidable challenges to successful central nervous system (CNS) drug delivery. Computational methods to generate BBB permeable drugs in silico may be…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-02 Ayush Noori , Iñaki Arango , William E. Byrd , Nada Amin

AI-based molecule generation provides a promising approach to a large area of biomedical sciences and engineering, such as antibody design, hydrolase engineering, or vaccine development. Because the molecules are governed by physical laws,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Lemeng Wu , Chengyue Gong , Xingchao Liu , Mao Ye , Qiang Liu

The recent success of large foundation models in artificial intelligence has prompted the emergence of chemical pre-trained models. Despite the growing interest in large molecular pre-trained models that provide informative representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jinho Chang , Jong Chul Ye

Generative models of 3D molecular structure play a rapidly growing role in the design and simulation of molecules. Diffusion models currently dominate the space of 3D molecule generation, while autoregressive models have trailed behind. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Austin H. Cheng , Chong Sun , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Methods for jointly generating molecular graphs along with their 3D conformations have gained prominence recently due to their potential impact on structure-based drug design. Current approaches, however, often suffer from very slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Ross Irwin , Alessandro Tibo , Jon Paul Janet , Simon Olsson

This work explores the challenging problem of molecule design by framing it as a conditional generative modeling task, where target biological properties or desired chemical constraints serve as conditioning variables. We propose the Latent…

One of the major applications of generative models for drug Discovery targets the lead-optimization phase. During the optimization of a lead series, it is common to have scaffold constraints imposed on the structure of the molecules…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-05 Maxime Langevin , Herve Minoux , Maximilien Levesque , Marc Bianciotto

Three-dimensional molecular structure generation is typically performed at the level of individual atoms, yet molecular graph generation techniques often consider fragments as their structural units. Building on the advances in frame-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Roman Poletukhin , Marcel Kollovieh , Eike Eberhard , Stephan Günnemann

The generation of small molecule candidate (ligand) binding poses in its target protein pocket is important for computer-aided drug discovery. Typical rigid-body docking methods ignore the pocket flexibility of protein, while the more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jonathan P. Mailoa , Zhaofeng Ye , Jiezhong Qiu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Peptide design plays a pivotal role in therapeutics, allowing brand new possibility to leverage target binding sites that are previously undruggable. Most existing methods are either inefficient or only concerned with the target-agnostic…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-31 Xiangzhe Kong , Yinjun Jia , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu

Structure-based molecular ML (SBML) models can be highly sensitive to input geometries and give predictions with large variance. We present an approach to mitigate the challenge of selecting conformations for such models by generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Michael Maser , Natasa Tagasovska , Jae Hyeon Lee , Andrew Watkins