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48 results for molecule design

Paper proposes a method to design molecules with specific properties.

problem Designing molecules with desired chemical and biological properties.
method Energy-based model in latent space, SGDS algorithm for gradual distribution shifting.
result Method achieves strong performances on various molecule design tasks.

Bayesian optimization improves molecule design by addressing three pitfalls.

problem Bayesian optimization pitfalls cause poor performance in molecule design.
method Identified and addressed three pitfalls: incorrect prior width, over-smoothing, and inadequate acquisition function maximization.
result Basic BO setup achieves highest performance on PMO benchmark.

Generative neural network designs novel 3D molecules with specified properties.

problem Designing molecules with desired properties in chemistry.
method Conditional generative neural network for 3D molecular structures.
result Demonstrated utility in generating novel molecules with specified motifs or composition.

Although machine learning has been successfully used to propose novel molecules that satisfy desired properties, it is still challenging to explore a large chemical space efficiently. In this paper, we present a conditional molecular design method that facilitates generating new molecules with desired properties. The p…

2018-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗

A neural network and evolutionary algorithm framework designs nonlinear optical molecules.

problem Designing efficient nonlinear optical materials.
method Multi-stage Bayesian neural network (msBNN) and corrected Lewis-mode group contribution method (cLGC) combined with evolutionary algorithm (EA).
result Accurately and efficiently designs molecules with different optical properties using a small data set.

MoleculeSTM learns from molecule structures and texts for better drug design.

problem Lack of integration between chemical structures and textual knowledge in AI drug discovery.
method Jointly learns chemical structures and texts via contrastive learning, using a large dataset.
result MoleculeSTM achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot tasks like structure-text retrieval and molecule editing.

Searching new molecules in areas like drug discovery often starts from the core structures of candidate molecules to optimize the properties of interest. The way as such has called for a strategy of designing molecules retaining a particular scaffold as a substructure. On this account, our present work proposes a scaff…

2019-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Graphs are ubiquitous data structures for representing interactions between entities. With an emphasis on the use of graphs to represent chemical molecules, we explore the task of learning to generate graphs that conform to a distribution observed in training data. We propose a variational autoencoder model in which bo…

2018-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

GCDM generates valid large 3D molecules and optimizes existing molecules.

problem Lack of geometric properties in 3D molecule generation models.
method Introduces Geometry-Complete Diffusion Model (GCDM) using equivariant GNNs.
result Significantly outperforms existing models in 3D molecule generation and optimization.

Drug discovery aims to find novel compounds with specified chemical property profiles. In terms of generative modeling, the goal is to learn to sample molecules in the intersection of multiple property constraints. This task becomes increasingly challenging when there are many property constraints. We propose to offset…

2020-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we presented a novel convolutional neural network framework for graph modeling, with the introduction of two new modules specially designed for graph-structured data: the kk-th order convolution operator and the adaptive filtering module. Importantly, our framework of High-order and Adaptive Graph Convo…

2017-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗

New method designs antimicrobial peptides with high potency and low toxicity.

problem Designing potent antimicrobial drugs with low toxicity.
method CLaSS method using deep generative autoencoder and atomistic simulations.
result Design and synthesis of two novel AMPs with high potency and low toxicity.

Transfer learning boosts chemically accurate neural network potentials for organic molecules.

problem Developing accurate interatomic potentials from ab-initio data.
method Discriminative fine-tuning of pre-trained neural networks.
result Fine-tuning with energy labels alone can achieve accurate atomic forces.

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.

Automates GNN design for molecular property prediction.

problem Designing and tuning GNN architectures for molecular property prediction is labor-intensive.
method Developed a NAS approach to automatically discover high-performing GNN architectures for MPNNs.
result Automatically discovered MPNNs outperform manually designed GNNs in molecular property prediction.

LaMBO optimizes biological sequences using autoencoders and Bayesian optimization.

problem Bayesian optimization for drug design is limited by discrete, high-dimensional decision variables.
method Jointly trains denoising autoencoder with a Gaussian process head for gradient-based optimization in latent space.
result LaMBO outperforms genetic optimizers and requires no large pretraining corpus.

We seek to automate the design of molecules based on specific chemical properties. In computational terms, this task involves continuous embedding and generation of molecular graphs. Our primary contribution is the direct realization of molecular graphs, a task previously approached by generating linear SMILES strings …

2018-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep generative model discovers inhibitors for unknown targets.

problem Discovering novel inhibitor molecules for unknown drug targets.
method Deep generative framework trained on protein sequences, small molecules, and interactions.
result Micromolar-level inhibition observed for two out of four synthesized candidates, including activity against SARS-CoV-2 variants.

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.

CoDrug uses KDE to create valid prediction sets for drug molecules under covariate shift.

problem Creating reliable uncertainty estimates for drug properties from computational models.
method CoDrug employs an energy-based model and KDE to assess and rectify distribution shift.
result CoDrug reduces the coverage gap by over 35% compared to non-adjusted conformal prediction sets.

We seek to automate the design of molecules based on specific chemical properties. Our primary contributions are a simpler method for generating SMILES strings guaranteed to be chemically valid, using a combination of a new context-free grammar for SMILES and additional masking logic; and casting the molecular property…

2018-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗