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The quest for accurate prediction of drug molecule properties poses a fundamental challenge in the realm of Artificial Intelligence Drug Discovery (AIDD). An effective representation of drug molecules emerges as a pivotal component in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Zhuoyuan Wang , Jiacong Mi , Shan Lu , Jieyue He

Designing molecular structures with desired chemical properties is an essential task in drug discovery and material design. However, finding molecules with the optimized desired properties is still a challenging task due to combinatorial…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-02 Masatsugu Yamada , Mahito Sugiyama

Generating molecular graphs with desired chemical properties driven by deep graph generative models provides a very promising way to accelerate drug discovery process. Such graph generative models usually consist of two steps: learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-19 Chengxi Zang , Fei Wang

The drug discovery process involves several tasks to be performed in vivo, in vitro and in silico. Molecular docking is a task typically performed in silico. It aims at finding the three-dimensional pose of a given molecule when it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Davide Gadioli , Gianluca Palermo , Stefano Cherubin , Emanuele Vitali , Giovanni Agosta , Candida Manelfi , Andrea R. Beccari , Carlo Cavazzoni , Nico Sanna , Cristina Silvano

Molecular editing aims to modify a given molecule to optimize desired chemical properties while preserving structural similarity. However, current approaches typically rely on string-based or continuous representations, which fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yuanxin Zhuang , Dazhong Shen , Ying Sun

Structure-Based molecule optimization (SBMO) aims to optimize molecules with both continuous coordinates and discrete types against protein targets. A promising direction is to exert gradient guidance on generative models given its…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-06 Keyue Qiu , Yuxuan Song , Jie Yu , Hongbo Ma , Ziyao Cao , Zhilong Zhang , Yushuai Wu , Mingyue Zheng , Hao Zhou , Wei-Ying Ma

The problem of accelerating drug discovery relies heavily on automatic tools to optimize precursor molecules to afford them with better biochemical properties. Our work in this paper substantially extends prior state-of-the-art on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Wengong Jin , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Generating a novel and optimized molecule with desired chemical properties is an essential part of the drug discovery process. Failure to meet one of the required properties can frequently lead to failure in a clinical test which is costly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Bonggun Shin , Sungsoo Park , JinYeong Bak , Joyce C. Ho

Artificial Intelligence predicts drug properties by encoding drug molecules, aiding in the rapid screening of candidates. Different molecular representations, such as SMILES and molecule graphs, contain complementary information for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Muzhen Cai , Sendong Zhao , Haochun Wang , Yanrui Du , Zewen Qiang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Molecular core structures and R-groups are essential concepts in drug development. Integration of these concepts with conventional graph pre-training approaches can promote deeper understanding in molecules. We propose MolPLA, a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Mogan Gim , Jueon Park , Soyon Park , Sanghoon Lee , Seungheun Baek , Junhyun Lee , Ngoc-Quang Nguyen , Jaewoo Kang

Drug discovery is a lengthy and resource-intensive process composed of multiple stages. Among these stages, lead optimization plays a critical role in transforming early hit compounds into viable drug candidates. This stage requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lingxiao Li , Haobo Zhang , Ruohao Fan , Bin Chen , Jiayu Zhou

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to efficiently discover high-affinity ligands within vast chemical spaces. However, current generative models struggle with objective misalignment and rigid sampling budgets. We present MolFORM, a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Daiheng Zhang , Zhao Zhang

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

Molecule and text representation learning has gained increasing interest due to its potential for enhancing the understanding of chemical information. However, existing models often struggle to capture subtle differences between molecules…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hyuntae Park , Yeachan Kim , SangKeun Lee

Designing new molecules with a set of predefined properties is a core problem in modern drug discovery and development. There is a growing need for de-novo design methods that would address this problem. We present MolecularRNN, the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Mariya Popova , Mykhailo Shvets , Junier Oliva , Olexandr Isayev

Molecule design is a fundamental problem in molecular science and has critical applications in a variety of areas, such as drug discovery, material science, etc. However, due to the large searching space, it is impossible for human experts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yuanqi Du , Tianfan Fu , Jimeng Sun , Shengchao Liu

Molecular discovery is a multi-objective optimization problem that requires identifying a molecule or set of molecules that balance multiple, often competing, properties. Multi-objective molecular design is commonly addressed by combining…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-17 Jenna C. Fromer , Connor W. Coley

Lead optimization is a pivotal task in the drug design phase within the drug discovery lifecycle. The primary objective is to refine the lead compound to meet specific molecular properties for progression to the subsequent phase of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-22 Siddartha Reddy N , Sai Prakash MV , Varun V , Vishal Vaddina , Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan

Molecular optimization (MO) is a crucial stage in drug discovery in which task-oriented generated molecules are optimized to meet practical industrial requirements. Existing mainstream MO approaches primarily utilize external property…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yida Xiong , Kun Li , Jiameng Chen , Hongzhi Zhang , Di Lin , Yan Che , Wenbin Hu

We present an algorithm for accelerating the search of molecule's adsorption site based on global optimization of surface adsorbate geometries. Our approach uses a machine-learning interatomic potential (moment tensor potential) to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-30 Olga Klimanova , Nikita Rybin , Alexander Shapeev