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The design of target-specific molecules such as small molecules, peptides, and antibodies is vital for biological research and drug discovery. Existing generative methods are restricted to single-domain molecules, failing to address…

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Protein inverse folding, the design of an amino acid sequence based on a target protein structure, is a fundamental problem of computational protein engineering. Existing methods either generate sequences without leveraging external…

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Deep generative models have shown promise for modeling metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), but existing approaches (1) rely on coarse-grained representations that assume fixed bond lengths and angles, and (2) neglect the MOF-adsorbate…

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Breakthroughs in high-accuracy protein structure prediction, such as AlphaFold, have established receptor-based molecule design as a critical driver for rapid early-phase drug discovery. However, most approaches still struggle to balance…

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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

Diffusion models achieve great success in generating diverse and high-fidelity images, yet their widespread application, especially in real-time scenarios, is hampered by their inherently slow generation speed. The slow generation stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Shengkun Tang , Yaqing Wang , Caiwen Ding , Yi Liang , Yao Li , Dongkuan Xu

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are of immense interest in applications such as gas storage and carbon capture due to their exceptional porosity and tunable chemistry. Their modular nature has enabled the use of template-based methods to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Xiang Fu , Tian Xie , Andrew S. Rosen , Tommi Jaakkola , Jake Smith

Antibodies are essential proteins responsible for immune responses in organisms, capable of specifically recognizing antigen molecules of pathogens. Recent advances in generative models have significantly enhanced rational antibody design.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Zichen Wang , Yaokun Ji , Jianing Tian , Shuangjia Zheng

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

Procuring expressive molecular representations underpins AI-driven molecule design and scientific discovery. The research mainly focuses on atom-level homogeneous molecular graphs, ignoring the rich information in subgraphs or motifs.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-10 Fang Wu , Dragomir Radev , Stan Z. Li

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

Designing new molecules is essential for drug discovery and material science. Recently, deep generative models that aim to model molecule distribution have made promising progress in narrowing down the chemical research space and generating…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-06 Han Huang , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Weifeng Lv

We present a generative modeling framework for atomistic systems that combines score-based diffusion for atomic positions with a novel continuous-time discrete diffusion process for atomic types. This approach enables flexible and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Nikolaj Rønne , Bjørk Hammer

Recently, 3D generative models have shown promising performances in structure-based drug design by learning to generate ligands given target binding sites. However, only modeling the target-ligand distribution can hardly fulfill one of the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-22 Xiangxin Zhou , Xiwei Cheng , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu

Diffusion generative models have emerged as a powerful framework for addressing problems in structural biology and structure-based drug design. These models operate directly on 3D molecular structures. Due to the unfavorable scaling of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-10 Ian Dunn , David Ryan Koes

The interaction between proteins and DNA is a key driving force in a significant number of biological processes such as transcriptional regulation, repair, recombination, splicing, and DNA modification. The identification of DNA-binding…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-10 Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh , Pushkar Kolhe , Charles L. Isbell , May D. Wang

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

In this work, we introduce AutoFragDiff, a fragment-based autoregressive diffusion model for generating 3D molecular structures conditioned on target protein structures. We employ geometric vector perceptrons to predict atom types and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-12 Mahdi Ghorbani , Leo Gendelev , Paul Beroza , Michael J. Keiser

Diffusion models, as a type of generative model, have achieved impressive results in generating images and videos conditioned on textual conditions. However, the generation process of diffusion models involves denoising dozens of steps to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hui Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Zhen Xing , Jie Shao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Deep generative modeling to stochastically design small molecules is an emerging technology for accelerating drug discovery and development. However, one major issue in molecular generative models is their lower frequency of drug-like…