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Today's AI systems have human-designed, fixed architectures and cannot autonomously and continuously improve themselves. The advance of AI could itself be automated. If done safely, that would accelerate AI development and allow us to reap…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jenny Zhang , Shengran Hu , Cong Lu , Robert Lange , Jeff Clune

De novo molecule generation can suffer from data inefficiency; requiring large amounts of training data or many sampled data points to conduct objective optimization. The latter is a particular disadvantage when combining deep generative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Morgan Thomas , Noel M. O'Boyle , Andreas Bender , Chris De Graaf

Molecular representation learning is vital for various downstream applications, including the analysis and prediction of molecular properties and side effects. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been a popular framework for modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Pengcheng Jiang , Cao Xiao , Tianfan Fu , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout , Jimeng Sun , Jiawei Han

The optimal design of compounds through manipulating properties at the molecular level is often the key to considerable scientific advances and improved process systems performance. This paper highlights key trends, challenges, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-13 Abdulelah S. Alshehri , Rafiqul Gani , Fengqi You

Intrinsically disordered regions of proteins play a crucial role in cell signaling and drug discovery. However, their high structural flexibility makes accurate residue-level prediction challenging. Existing methods often rely on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shaokuan Wang , Pengshan Cui , Yining Qian , An-Yang Lu , Xianpeng Wang

A molecule's geometry, also known as conformation, is one of a molecule's most important properties, determining the reactions it participates in, the bonds it forms, and the interactions it has with other molecules. Conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Elman Mansimov , Omar Mahmood , Seokho Kang , Kyunghyun Cho

Optimizing conflicting molecular properties while strictly adhering to complex 3D structural constraints constitutes a challenging Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization Problem (CMOP). Traditional Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) destroy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ruiqing Sun , Dawei Feng , Sen Yang , Ronghang Wang , Huaiyuan Song , Bo Ding , Yijie Wang , Huaimin Wang

It is a big challenge to develop efficient models for identifying personalized drug targets (PDTs) from high-dimensional personalized genomic profile of individual patients. Recent structural network control principles have introduced a new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jing Liang , Zhuo Hu , Zong-Wei Li , Kang-Jia Qiao , Wei-Feng Guo

Molecular structure-property relationships are key to molecular engineering for materials and drug discovery. The rise of deep learning offers a new viable solution to elucidate the structure-property relationships directly from chemical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Seongok Ryu , Jaechang Lim , Seung Hwan Hong , Woo Youn Kim

The goal of structure-based drug discovery is to find small molecules that bind to a given target protein. Deep learning has been used to generate drug-like molecules with certain cheminformatic properties, but has not yet been applied to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-27 Matthew Ragoza , Tomohide Masuda , David Ryan Koes

In recent years machine learning (ML) took bio- and cheminformatics fields by storm, providing new solutions for a vast repertoire of problems related to protein sequence, structure, and interactions analysis. ML techniques, deep neural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-31 Marta M. Stepniewska-Dziubinska , Piotr Zielenkiewicz , Pawel Siedlecki

De novo drug design requires simultaneously generating novel molecules outside of training data and predicting their target properties, making it a hard task for generative models. To address this, we propose Joint Transformer that combines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Adam Izdebski , Ewelina Weglarz-Tomczak , Ewa Szczurek , Jakub M. Tomczak

While tumor dynamic modeling has been widely applied to support the development of oncology drugs, there remains a need to increase predictivity, enable personalized therapy, and improve decision-making. We propose the use of Tumor Dynamic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-24 Mark Laurie , James Lu

Automatic molecule generation plays an important role on drug discovery and has received a great deal of attention in recent years thanks to deep learning successful use. Graph-based neural network represents state of the art methods on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yanbo Wang , Qianqian Song

Optimizing molecular properties while preserving biological activity is a central challenge in drug design. Bioisosteric replacement, which substitutes a molecular fragment with a chemically or biologically analogous moiety, offers a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-04 Hyeongwoo Kim , Seokhyun Moon , Wonho Zhung , Shinwoo Kim , Jaechang Lim , Woo Youn Kim

The discovery of functional molecules is an expensive and time-consuming process, exemplified by the rising costs of small molecule therapeutic discovery. One class of techniques of growing interest for early-stage drug discovery is de novo…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-18 Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley

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

Virtual screening plays a critical role in modern drug discovery by enabling the identification of promising candidate molecules for experimental validation. Traditional machine learning methods such, as Support Vector Machines (SVM) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Radia Berreziga , Mohammed Brahimi , Khairedine Kraim , Hamid Azzoune

Current molecular generative models primarily focus on improving drug-target binding affinity and specificity, often neglecting the system-level phenotypic effects elicited by compounds. Transcriptional profiles, as molecule-level readouts…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Ran Song , Hui Liu

Discovering new medicines is the hallmark of human endeavor to live a better and longer life. Yet the pace of discovery has slowed down as we need to venture into more wildly unexplored biomedical space to find one that matches today's high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Tri Minh Nguyen , Thin Nguyen , Truyen Tran