New method uses cohomology to quantify molecular similarity.
problem Quantifying structural dissimilarity in molecular data.
method Gromov-Hausdorff ultrametric based on simplicial complexes and cohomology.
result Demonstrates effectiveness in clustering organic-inorganic halide perovskite structures.
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.
PG-EVIKAL refines molecular property predictions using neighbor fusion and evidential neural networks.
problem Improving molecular property predictions using test-time neighbor fusion.
method Adapting evidential neural networks to refine predictions by re-ranking structurally similar neighbors.
result PG-EVIKAL reduces RMSE on 14 out of 16 molecular datasets, improving calibration and sequential refinement.
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.
Generative models are becoming a tool of choice for exploring the molecular space. These models learn on a large training dataset and produce novel molecular structures with similar properties. Generated structures can be utilized for virtual screening or training semi-supervised predictive models in the downstream tas…
In this report, we present an unsupervised machine learning method for determining groups of molecular systems according to similarity in their dynamics or structures using Ward's minimum variance objective function. We first apply the minimum variance clustering to a set of simulated tripeptides using the information …
A major challenge in computational chemistry is the generation of novel molecular structures with desirable pharmacological and physiochemical properties. In this work, we investigate the potential use of autoencoder, a deep learning methodology, for de novo molecular design. Various generative autoencoders were used t…
A set of molecular descriptors whose length is independent of molecular size is developed for machine learning models that target thermodynamic and electronic properties of molecules. These features are evaluated by monitoring performance of kernel ridge regression models on well-studied data sets of small organic mole…
Modof-pipe optimizes molecules by modifying a single site, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
problem Improving drug candidates' properties through chemical modification.
method Deep generative model Modof over molecular graphs for molecule optimization.
result Modof-pipe achieves significant improvements in octanol-water partition coefficient and molecule similarity constraints.
Chirality affects the curvature of molecular networks, influencing their shape and stability.
problem Understanding how chirality influences the curvature of molecular networks.
method Langevin dynamics simulations and constrained gradient optimization of square lattice networks.
result Linking chirality dictates the sign of Gaussian curvature in molecular chainmail networks.
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…
Improved sampling efficiency for molecular systems using path gradients after Flow Matching.
problem Improving sampling efficiency for complex molecular systems.
method Hybrid approach combining Flow Matching and path gradients.
result Up to a threefold increase in sampling efficiency for molecular systems.
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.
Model learns molecular structures from graphs without explicit rules.
problem Learning molecular structures from graphs without explicit rules.
method Adapted Transformer model for undirected molecular graphs.
result Transformer model can learn complex molecular structures.
Chemical autoencoders are attractive models as they combine chemical space navigation with possibilities for de-novo molecule generation in areas of interest. This enables them to produce focused chemical libraries around a single lead compound for employment early in a drug discovery project. Here it is shown that the…
A new deep model generates molecules by fragments, improving validity and uniqueness.
problem Generating valid and unique molecules using deep learning.
method Develops a language model for molecular fragments, using frequency-based masking.
result Significantly outperforms other language model-based competitors in molecule generation.
A molecule's geometry, also known as conformation, is one of a molecule's most important properties, determining the reactions it participates in, the bonds it forms, and the interactions it has with other molecules. Conventional conformation generation methods minimize hand-designed molecular force field energy functi…
Recommender systems play an essential role in the modern business world. They recommend favorable items like books, movies, and search queries to users based on their past preferences. Applying similar ideas and techniques to Monte Carlo simulations of physical systems boosts their efficiency without sacrificing accura…
Multitask Gaussian process regression reduces data generation costs for molecular property prediction.
problem Data bottleneck in training surrogate models for molecular properties.
method Multitask Gaussian process regression over heterogeneous data sources (CC and DFT).
result Predicts at CC-level accuracy with over an order of magnitude reduction in data generation cost.
New method uses biased MD to create accurate MLIPs.
problem Creating a comprehensive data set for MLIPs.
method Bias MD by MLIP's energy uncertainty, using gradient-based uncertainties.
result Develops uniformly accurate MLIPs with lower computational cost.
A new autoregressive model learns the order of graph generation tasks.
problem Generating graphs in a meaningful order when the canonical order is not obvious.
method Introduces a variant of autoregressive models that dynamically decides the autoregressive order based on data.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on molecular graph generation benchmarks.
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.
Deep generative models have been wildly successful at learning coherent latent representations for continuous data such as video and audio. However, generative modeling of discrete data such as arithmetic expressions and molecular structures still poses significant challenges. Crucially, state-of-the-art methods often …
This review introduces graph kernels for chemoinformatics.
problem Quantifying similarity between molecular graphs.
method Graph kernels as a method for quantifying molecular graph similarity.
result Graph kernels have direct applications in chemoinformatics.
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.
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.
We propose a molecular generative model based on the conditional variational autoencoder for de novo molecular design. It is specialized to control multiple molecular properties simultaneously by imposing them on a latent space. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate that it can be used to generate drug-like molecules w…
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.
LSS learns molecular trajectories from MD data.
problem Limited integration time steps in MD simulations.
method Three deep learning networks for slow collective variables, dynamics, and configuration reconstruction.
result Generates ultra-long synthetic folding trajectories.
Generative model learns molecular geometry from graph representations.
problem Generating equilibrium states for molecular systems is computationally expensive.
method Probabilistic model based on Euclidean distance geometry.
result Generative model achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in molecular conformation generation.
AniDS improves molecular force field modeling by learning anisotropic noise.
problem Molecular force field modeling suffers from oversimplified assumptions about atomic motions.
method AniDS introduces anisotropic noise generation for better modeling of directional and structural variability.
result AniDS outperforms existing methods on benchmarks, achieving significant improvements in force prediction accuracy.
Machine learning models simulate molecular spectra and reactions in solvents.
problem Accurate simulation of molecular spectra and reactions in solvent environments.
method Introduced FieldSchNet, a deep neural network for modeling molecular interactions with external fields.
result Demonstrated significant lowering of Claisen rearrangement reaction activation barrier using FieldSchNet.
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.
Recent machine learning methods make it possible to model potential energy of atomic configurations with chemical-level accuracy (as calculated from ab-initio calculations) and at speeds suitable for molecular dynam- ics simulation. Best performance is achieved when the known physical constraints are encoded in the mac…
Framework for training-free guidance in discrete diffusion models for molecular generation.
problem No equivalent training-free guidance methods for discrete diffusion models.
method Framework using guidance functions for discrete data.
result Demonstrated utility on molecular graph generation tasks.
Optimizes molecular generation for chemist preferences.
problem Models lack inherent preferences for chemist-desired structures.
method Fine-tuning with Direct Preference Optimization.
result Approach is simple, efficient, and highly effective.
AI and HPC help screen millions of molecules for SARS-CoV-2 treatments.
problem Finding effective treatments for SARS-CoV-2.
method AI and HPC enable screening of large molecule datasets.
result Data release of 23 datasets with 4.2 billion molecules.
New RL method designs 3D molecules with improved symmetry.
problem Lack of 3D information in molecular design.
method Symmetry-aware actor-critic architecture using spherical harmonics.
result Improves generalization and molecule quality.
Generative models accelerate molecular dynamics by four orders of magnitude.
problem Femtosecond time steps limit access to slow molecular processes.
method Deep generative modeling framework that accelerates sampling.
result Quantitative characterization of equilibrium ensembles and dynamical relaxation processes.
FlowMO uses Gaussian Processes for molecular property prediction with uncertainty.
problem Predicting molecular properties with uncertainty for small datasets.
method Gaussian Processes implemented in FlowMO, built on GPflow and RDKit.
result Comparable predictive performance to deep learning but superior uncertainty calibration.
Machine learning methods have shown promise in predicting molecular properties, and given sufficient training data machine learning approaches can enable rapid high-throughput virtual screening of large libraries of compounds. Graph-based neural network architectures have emerged in recent years as the most successful …
Framework learns surrogates for molecular dynamics across multiple time-scales.
problem Stable molecular dynamics simulations require small time-steps, but long-time-scale moments need repeated simulations.
method Implicit Transfer Operator Learning with denoising diffusion probabilistic models and SE(3) equivariant architecture.
result Models can generate self-consistent stochastic dynamics across multiple time-scales.
Paper improves molecular property prediction using denoising autoencoders.
problem Limited data for molecular property prediction from 3D structures.
method Pre-training via denoising for learning molecular force fields.
result Achieves new state-of-the-art performance on QM9 dataset.
A new machine-learned CG model predicts protein structures efficiently.
problem Developing a universal, computationally efficient protein simulation model.
method Combining deep learning with all-atom protein simulations to create a transferable CG force field.
result The model predicts protein structures, intermediates, and fluctuations efficiently.
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…
Designing a molecule with desired properties is one of the biggest challenges in drug development, as it requires optimization of chemical compound structures with respect to many complex properties. To augment the compound design process we introduce Mol-CycleGAN - a CycleGAN-based model that generates optimized compo…
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.
Researchers use active subspaces to quantify uncertainty in deep generative models for molecular design.
problem Uncertainty quantification in deep generative models for molecular design due to high parameter space.
method Leveraging active subspaces to approximate posterior distribution over low-dimensional parameters.
result The proposed UQ scheme effectively estimates epistemic uncertainty in high-dimensional parameter space without altering model architecture.