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Developing bioactive molecules remains a central, time- and cost-heavy challenge in drug discovery, particularly for novel targets lacking structural or functional data. Pharmacophore modeling presents an alternative for capturing the key…

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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

The paradigm shift toward structure-driven molecule generation has been propelled by advances in deep generative models, such as variational auto-encoders and diffusion models. However, these generative models for molecular design remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Peidong Liu , Wenbo Zhang , Wei Ju , Jiancheng Lv , Xianggen Liu

Deep generative models have achieved tremendous success in structure-based drug design in recent years, especially for generating 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein pocket. Notably, diffusion models have transformed ligand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Daiheng Zhang , Chengyue Gong , Qiang Liu

Molecular dynamics (MD) has long been the de facto choice for simulating complex atomistic systems from first principles. Recently deep learning models become a popular way to accelerate MD. Notwithstanding, existing models depend on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fang Wu , Stan Z. Li

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

Ligand molecule conformation generation is a critical challenge in drug discovery. Deep learning models have been developed to tackle this problem, particularly through the use of generative models in recent years. However, these models…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-02 Jiamin Wu , He Cao , Yuan Yao

Structure-based drug design aims at generating high affinity ligands with prior knowledge of 3D target structures. Existing methods either use conditional generative model to learn the distribution of 3D ligands given target binding sites,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-18 Yuwei Yang , Siqi Ouyang , Xueyu Hu , Mingyue Zheng , Hao Zhou , Lei Li

Deep generative models have achieved tremendous success in designing novel drug molecules in recent years. A new thread of works have shown the great potential in advancing the specificity and success rate of in silico drug design by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Xingang Peng , Shitong Luo , Jiaqi Guan , Qi Xie , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

This work introduces MiDi, a novel diffusion model for jointly generating molecular graphs and their corresponding 3D arrangement of atoms. Unlike existing methods that rely on predefined rules to determine molecular bonds based on the 3D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Clement Vignac , Nagham Osman , Laura Toni , Pascal Frossard

Advances in deep generative models shed light on de novo molecule generation with desired properties. However, molecule generation targeted for dual protein targets still faces formidable challenges including protein 3D structure data…

Predicting the binding structure of a small molecule ligand to a protein -- a task known as molecular docking -- is critical to drug design. Recent deep learning methods that treat docking as a regression problem have decreased runtime…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-14 Gabriele Corso , Hannes Stärk , Bowen Jing , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Generating chemically valid 3D molecular conformations is critical for computational drug discovery. Classical diffusion-based models like GeoLDM perform well but require hundreds of steps, making large-scale in silico screening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xinyuan Wei , Zian Li , Shaoheng Yan , Cai Zhou , Muhan Zhang

Generative models, especially diffusion models (DMs), have achieved promising results for generating feature-rich geometries and advancing foundational science problems such as molecule design. Inspired by the recent huge success of Stable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Minkai Xu , Alexander Powers , Ron Dror , Stefano Ermon , Jure Leskovec

Generative AI presents chemists with novel ideas for drug design and facilitates the exploration of vast chemical spaces. Diffusion models (DMs), an emerging tool, have recently attracted great attention in drug R\&D. This paper…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-14 Peining Zhang , Daniel Baker , Minghu Song , Jinbo Bi

Denoising diffusion models have shown great potential in multiple research areas. Existing diffusion-based generative methods on de novo 3D molecule generation face two major challenges. Since majority heavy atoms in molecules allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Can Xu , Haosen Wang , Weigang Wang , Pengfei Zheng , Hongyang Chen

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

3D molecule generation is crucial for drug discovery and material design. While prior efforts focus on 3D diffusion models for their benefits in modeling continuous 3D conformers, they overlook the advantages of 1D SELFIES-based Language…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-28 Zhiyuan Liu , Yanchen Luo , Han Huang , Enzhi Zhang , Sihang Li , Junfeng Fang , Yaorui Shi , Xiang Wang , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tat-Seng Chua

Proteins in complex with small molecule ligands represent the core of structure-based drug discovery. However, three-dimensional representations are absent from most deep-learning-based generative models. We here present a graph-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-07 Seung-gu Kang , Jeffrey K. Weber , Joseph A. Morrone , Leili Zhang , Tien Huynh , Wendy D. Cornell

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