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Activity cliffs (ACs), which are generally defined as pairs of structurally similar molecules that are active against the same bio-target but significantly different in the binding potency, are of great importance to drug discovery. Up to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-16 Ziqiao Zhang , Bangyi Zhao , Ailin Xie , Yatao Bian , Shuigeng Zhou

Activity cliffs, which refer to pairs of molecules that are structurally similar but show significant differences in their potency, can lead to model representation collapse and make the model challenging to distinguish them. Our research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Zhixiang Cheng , Hongxin Xiang , Pengsen Ma , Li Zeng , Xin Jin , Xixi Yang , Jianxin Lin , Yang Deng , Bosheng Song , Xinxin Feng , Changhui Deng , Xiangxiang Zeng

Pairs of similar compounds that only differ by a small structural modification but exhibit a large difference in their binding affinity for a given target are known as activity cliffs (ACs). It has been hypothesised that quantitative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Markus Dablander , Thierry Hanser , Renaud Lambiotte , Garrett M. Morris

Accurate prediction of molecular properties underpins drug discovery and material design, yet even state-of-the-art models remain vulnerable to localized failure modes that aggregate metrics cannot detect. The places where molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Di Hu , Kun Li , Haojie Rao , Longtao Hu , Jiameng Chen , Wenbin Hu , Yizhen Zheng , Jiajun Yu , Duanhua Cao

Recently, machine learning (ML) has gained popularity in the early stages of drug discovery. This trend is unsurprising given the increasing volume of relevant experimental data and the continuous improvement of ML algorithms. However,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-31 Regina Ibragimova , Dimitrios Iliadis , Willem Waegeman

Activity and property prediction models are the central workhorses in drug discovery and materials sciences, but currently they have to be trained or fine-tuned for new tasks. Without training or fine-tuning, scientific language models…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-19 Philipp Seidl , Andreu Vall , Sepp Hochreiter , Günter Klambauer

Quantitative structure-activity relationship assumes a smooth relationship between molecular structure and biological activity. However, activity cliffs defined as pairs of structurally similar compounds with large potency differences break…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hajung Kim , Jueon Park , Junseok Choe , Sheunheun Baek , Hyeon Hwang , Jaewoo Kang

Artificial intelligence, trained via machine learning or computational statistics algorithms, holds much promise for the improvement of small molecule drug discovery. However, structure-activity data are high dimensional with low…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-25 Oliver Watson , Isidro Cortes-Ciriano , Aimee Taylor , James A Watson

Predicting and enhancing inherent properties based on molecular structures is paramount to design tasks in medicine, materials science, and environmental management. Most of the current machine learning and deep learning approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Zachary R. Fox , Ayana Ghosh

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely applied in drug discovery with a major task as molecular property prediction. Despite booming techniques in molecular representation learning, key elements underlying molecular property…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-06 Jianyuan Deng , Zhibo Yang , Hehe Wang , Iwao Ojima , Dimitris Samaras , Fusheng Wang

Searching for potential active compounds in large databases is a necessary step to reduce time and costs in modern drug discovery pipelines. Such virtual screening methods seek to provide predictions that allow the search space to be…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-23 Rafael Mena-Yedra , Juana L. Redondo , Horacio Pérez-Sánchez , Pilar M. Ortigosa

Activity cliff prediction is a critical task in drug discovery and material design. Existing computational methods are limited to handling single binding targets, which restricts the applicability of these prediction models. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zishan Shu , Yufan Deng , Hongyu Zhang , Zhiwei Nie , Jie Chen

Activity coefficients, which are a measure of the non-ideality of liquid mixtures, are a key property in chemical engineering with relevance to modeling chemical and phase equilibria as well as transport processes. Although experimental…

Accurate prediction of molecular activities is crucial for efficient drug discovery, yet remains challenging due to limited and noisy datasets. We introduce Similarity-Quantized Relative Learning (SQRL), a learning framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Karina Zadorozhny , Kangway V. Chuang , Bharath Sathappan , Ewan Wallace , Vishnu Sresht , Colin A. Grambow

Empirical scoring functions based on either molecular force fields or cheminformatics descriptors are widely used, in conjunction with molecular docking, during the early stages of drug discovery to predict potency and binding affinity of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Joseph Gomes , Bharath Ramsundar , Evan N. Feinberg , Vijay S. Pande

To improve the efficiency of software maintenance, change prediction techniques have been proposed to predict frequently changing modules. Whereas existing techniques focus primarily on class-level prediction, method-level prediction allows…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hiroto Sugimori , Shinpei Hayashi

Small molecules play a pivotal role in modern medicine, and scrutinizing their interactions with protein targets is essential for the discovery and development of novel, life-saving therapeutics. The term "bioactivity" encompasses various…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-14 Yanwen Huang , Bowen Gao , Yinjun Jia , Hongbo Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Ya-Qin Zhang , Yanyan Lan

The calculation of chemical shifts in solids has enabled methods to determine crystal structures in powders. The dependence of chemical shifts on local atomic environments sets them among the most powerful tools for structure elucidation of…

Friction is ubiquitous in daily life, from nanoscale machines to large engineering components. By probing the intricate interplay between system parameters and frictional behavior, scientists seek to unveil the underlying mechanisms that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Yulong Li , Peter Gumbsch , Christian Greiner

This paper introduces a new testbed CLIFT (Clinical Shift) for the clinical domain Question-answering task. The testbed includes 7.5k high-quality question answering samples to provide a diverse and reliable benchmark. We performed a…

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