Quantum machine learning boosts drug discovery efficiency.
problem Enhancing drug discovery through quantum computing.
method Quantum neural networks on gate-based quantum computers.
result Significant advancements in molecular property prediction and generation.
SMILES Transformer learns molecular fingerprints for drug discovery.
problem Poor performance of rule-based molecular fingerprints in shallow prediction models or small datasets.
method Unsupervised pre-training of a sequence-to-sequence language model on a corpus of SMILES.
result SMILES Transformer outperformed existing methods in small-data settings.
A new model designs molecular latent vectors for drug discovery.
problem Designing effective molecular descriptors from molecular structures.
method Proposes a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) for variational autoencoding molecular graphs.
result Demonstrates superior prediction performance and robustness compared to existing approaches.
Visualizes deep generative models for drug design.
problem Limited visualization tools for deep generative models in drug discovery.
method Proposes a visualization framework for deep graph generative models.
result Interactive visualization and molecular optimization tools.
MoFlow generates chemically valid molecular graphs from latent representations.
problem Generating chemically valid molecular graphs from latent representations is challenging.
method MoFlow uses a flow-based approach with Glow for bond generation and a novel graph conditional flow for atom generation, ensuring chemical validity and efficiency.
result MoFlow achieves state-of-the-art performance in molecular graph generation and optimization.
AI helps in drug discovery with understandable explanations.
problem Understanding the complex models behind AI-generated drugs.
method Explainable AI methods to interpret deep learning models.
result Improved interpretability of AI-generated drug properties.
CardiGraphormer uses SSL and GNNs to improve drug discovery.
problem Challenges in drug discovery due to combinatorial chemical space and limited approved drugs.
method Combines self-supervised learning, Graph Neural Networks, and Cardinality Preserving Attention.
result Enhanced predictive performance and interpretability in drug discovery.
DESMILES uses deep learning to improve drug discovery by optimizing molecule properties.
problem Improving the efficiency and accuracy of drug discovery through better molecular design.
method DESMILES is a deep neural network model that optimizes molecular properties for drug discovery.
result DESMILES achieved a 77% lower failure rate in modifying molecules to inhibit the dopamine receptor D2 compared to state-of-the-art models.
Materials discovery is decisive for tackling urgent challenges related to energy, the environment, health care and many others. In chemistry, conventional methodologies for innovation usually rely on expensive and incremental strategies to optimize properties from molecular structures. On the other hand, inverse approa…
RAMBO optimizes multi-regime problems by discovering and modeling distinct energy basins.
problem Multi-regime problems in molecular conformation and drug discovery.
method Dirichlet Process Mixture of Gaussian Processes with adaptive hyperparameters and concentration parameters.
result Consistent improvements over state-of-the-art on multi-regime objectives.
New models suggest molecules that are often unfeasible to synthesize.
problem Models suggest molecules that are difficult to synthesize.
method Used a computer-aided synthesis planning program to analyze synthesizability of molecules generated by state-of-the-art models.
result State-of-the-art models generate molecules that are often unfeasible to synthesize.
Model predicts stable molecules with AI and physics constraints.
problem Designing stable molecules with limited data.
method Graph Scattering Variational Autoencoder with physical constraints.
result Model generates stable molecules with desired properties.
BBRT improves molecular properties through iterative translation.
problem Optimizing molecular structures for improved biochemical properties.
method Iterative translation of molecules using a black box approach.
result Improvement in molecular properties with each iteration of the translator.
NLP techniques improve drug discovery by analyzing chemical and protein text.
problem Improving drug discovery through better analysis of chemical and protein text.
method Natural language processing techniques applied to biochemical entities.
result Enhanced prediction of molecular properties and design of novel molecules.
DeepGG generates graph distributions for drug discovery and molecular design.
problem Learning graph distributions for various applications.
method Improved deep graph generator based on deep state machines with graph and node embeddings.
result The state machine design favors specific graph distributions.
Paper tackles multi-task learning for molecular property prediction with limited data.
problem Limited labeled data for each molecular property task in drug discovery.
method Proposes SGNN-EBM method to utilize relation graph between tasks and improve multi-task learning performance.
result Empirical results show the effectiveness of SGNN-EBM.
The success of enhanced sampling molecular simulations that accelerate along collective variables (CVs) is predicated on the availability of variables coincident with the slow collective motions governing the long-time conformational dynamics of a system. It is challenging to intuit these slow CVs for all but the simpl…
This work improves molecular design by efficiently selecting diverse candidate molecules.
problem Designing molecules that satisfy multiple conflicting objectives.
method A modular 'generate-then-optimize' framework using generative models and a novel acquisition function.
result Significant improvements in sample efficiency across synthetic and application-driven tasks.
VecMol generates 3D molecules as continuous vector fields, overcoming modality and geometry constraints.
problem Challenges in generating 3D molecules, especially in drug discovery and materials science.
method VecMol reimagines molecular representation by modeling 3D molecules as continuous vector fields over Euclidean space, parameterized by a neural field and generated using a latent diffusion model.
result Vector-field-based representations show promise for 3D molecular generation, validated on benchmarks.
Graph Polish optimizes molecular structures by minimizing changes and maximizing preservation.
problem Error-prone traditional molecular optimization methods.
method Graph Polish transforms optimization into a polishing task, focusing on optimization centers and minimizing changes.
result Significant advantage over state-of-the-art methods on multiple optimization tasks.
Molecular "fingerprints" encoding structural information are the workhorse of cheminformatics and machine learning in drug discovery applications. However, fingerprint representations necessarily emphasize particular aspects of the molecular structure while ignoring others, rather than allowing the model to make data-d…
HiGraphDTI learns drug and target representations from molecular graphs to predict DTIs.
problem Inaccurate drug-target interaction prediction due to insufficient chemical information extraction.
method Hierarchical graph representation learning to extract chemical information from atoms, motifs, and molecules.
result HiGraphDTI outperforms state-of-the-art methods in DTI prediction and interaction interpretation.
New method uses Riemannian geometry to describe molecular shapes.
problem Predicting drug-like molecules using shape similarity.
method Riemannian geometry applied to molecular surfaces.
result RGMolSA method captures molecular shape effectively.
This review explores the use of machine learning in discovering collective variables for biomolecular dynamics.
problem Understanding the conformational dynamics and molecular recognition in biomolecules.
method Statistical analysis of high-dimensional spatiotemporal data generated from molecular dynamics simulations.
result Machine learning algorithms can be used to discover abstract collective variables that describe biomolecular dynamics.
A Graph Neural Network model for generating molecular graphs.
problem Designing new drug molecules efficiently and cost-effectively.
method Sequential molecular graph generator based on Graph Neural Networks.
result The model can generate molecular graphs without overfitting and outperforms existing methods.
CSLVAE generates large chemical libraries efficiently.
problem Navigating ultra-large combinatorial synthesis libraries.
method Hierarchically-organized database with molecular encoder and decoder.
result Generates valid molecular graphs without autoregression.
Novel RL approach for molecular design using quantum mechanics.
problem Existing RL methods for molecular design are limited in scope and reward function.
method Formulation in Cartesian coordinates, direct use of quantum mechanics for reward function, translation and rotation invariant state-action space.
result Agent efficiently learns to solve molecular design tasks from scratch.
New dataset abla2DFT for drug-like molecules benchmarks neural network potentials.
problem Lack of large, diverse datasets for training neural network potentials in quantum chemistry.
method Developed a new dataset abla2DFT containing energies, forces, and molecular properties for drug-like molecules. result First dataset with relaxation trajectories for drug-like molecules.
Proposes a multi-view architecture for drug-target interaction prediction.
problem Representing compound-target pairs in deep learning models.
method Integrates differentiable and predefined molecular descriptors using an adversarial multi-view architecture.
result Demonstrates potential of the proposed approach on clinically relevant datasets.
BEACON optimizes discovery by efficiently finding novel behaviors.
problem Discovering diverse system behaviors without a scalar objective.
method Bayesian optimization inspired strategy using multi-output Gaussian processes.
result BEACON discovers broader sets of distinct behaviors than competing methods.
Study evaluates uncertainty quantification methods for molecular property prediction.
problem Uncertainty in neural models for molecular property prediction.
method Systematically evaluated several UQ methods on five benchmark datasets.
result No single method is unequivocally superior, and none provides reliable error ranking across datasets.
GraphAF generates chemically valid molecules efficiently and accurately.
problem Generating chemically valid molecular structures while optimizing chemical properties.
method Flow-based autoregressive model combining autoregressive and flow-based approaches.
result GraphAF generates 68% chemically valid molecules without chemical knowledge rules and 100% with rules, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
DOCKSTRING simplifies docking simulations for better drug design benchmarks.
problem Lack of meaningful benchmarks for ligand design.
method Open-source Python package for docking scores, extensive dataset, and pharmaceutically-relevant tasks.
result Docking scores are more appropriate benchmarks than simple physicochemical properties.
Molecule property prediction is a fundamental problem for computer-aided drug discovery and materials science. Quantum-chemical simulations such as density functional theory (DFT) have been widely used for calculating the molecule properties, however, because of the heavy computational cost, it is difficult to search a…
AMPL is a new software pipeline for drug discovery models.
problem Reproducibility and traceability in drug discovery models.
method Modular and extensible software pipeline for machine learning models.
result Physicochemical descriptors and deep learning outperform traditional fingerprints.
CGD improves diffusion models' out-of-distribution generalization.
problem Reliable sampling from high-value regions beyond training data.
method Context-guided diffusion (CGD) using unlabeled data and smoothness constraints.
result Substantial performance gains across various diffusion processes.
XIMP improves molecular property prediction by integrating multiple graph representations.
problem Graph neural networks struggle in data-scarce regimes and fail to surpass traditional methods.
method Cross-graph inter-message passing with multiple graph abstractions.
result XIMP outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across diverse molecular property tasks.
Quantum computing promises faster bioinformatics, but challenges remain.
problem Efficient bioinformatics processing and drug discovery.
method Quantum algorithms for optimization, simulation, and machine learning.
result Quantum computing can significantly speed up bioinformatics tasks.
RC flow learns molecular kinetics in low dimensions.
problem Discovering interpretable low-dimensional models of molecular kinetics.
method Normalizing flow for coordinate transformation and Brownian dynamics for kinetics approximation.
result Tractable and trainable model of reduced kinetics in continuous time and space.
New method uses Riemannian geometry to quantify molecular shapes.
problem Quantifying molecular similarity for drug discovery.
method Riemannian geometry and Kähler quantization (KQMolSA).
result KQMolSA method compares well to existing shape similarity methods.
BERT learns molecular substructures for chemistry problems.
problem Predicting chemical properties and synthesizing molecules.
method Transformer-based BERT model on molecule string representations, attention visualization.
result BERT learns to represent functional groups and atoms for various chemical properties.
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 data. Here we show that the performance of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) for…
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 graph-to-graph translation methods for molecular optimization. In particular, we realize …
Functional groups (FGs) are molecular substructures that are served as a foundation for analyzing and predicting chemical properties of molecules. Automatic discovery of FGs will impact various fields of research, including medicinal chemistry and material sciences, by reducing the amount of lab experiments required fo…
Data-driven approach discovers molecular photoswitches with separated electronic absorption bands.
problem Engineering photoswitchable molecules with specific electronic absorption bands remains challenging.
method Data-driven discovery pipeline using Gaussian processes for multitask learning.
result Multioutput Gaussian process (MOGP) trained on four photoswitch transition wavelengths outperforms single-task models and TD-DFT.
Study compares GNNs and classical molecular featurisations for molecular property and cliff prediction.
problem Comparing GNNs and classical featurisations for molecular property and cliff prediction.
method Systematic exploration and comparison of PDVs, ECFPs, and GNNs; introduction of substructure pooling.
result Sort & Slice outperforms hash-based folding in ECFP vectorization.
POEM predicts drug properties without tuning, outperforming other methods.
problem Predicting drug properties from molecular structures efficiently.
method POEM combines multiple molecular representations without hyperparameter tuning.
result POEM outperforms industry-standard methods across 17 tasks.
Gradient GA uses gradient information to improve molecular design.
problem Random walk exploration limits genetic algorithms' quality and speed in molecular design.
method Gradient GA incorporates gradient information from the objective function into genetic algorithms, using a differentiable neural network and Discrete Langevin Proposal.
result Significantly improves convergence speed and solution quality over traditional genetic algorithms.