Deep generative models are able to suggest new organic molecules by generating strings, trees, and graphs representing their structure. While such models allow one to generate molecules with desirable properties, they give no guarantees that the molecules can actually be synthesized in practice. We propose a new molecu…
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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…
SILVR generates new molecules fitting protein binding sites.
problem Generating novel small molecule compounds for drug design.
method Selective Iterative Latent Variable Refinement (SILVR) for diffusion-based molecule generation.
result SILVR can generate new molecules similar in shape to original fragments without protein knowledge.
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.
In de novo drug design, computational strategies are used to generate novel molecules with good affinity to the desired biological target. In this work, we show that recurrent neural networks can be trained as generative models for molecular structures, similar to statistical language models in natural language process…
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.
FREED++: Improving RL Agents for Fragment-Based Molecule Generation by Thorough Reproductionq-bio.BM
Improved RL model for fragment-based molecule generation.
problem Generating molecules with high docking scores.
method Thorough reproduction, scrutiny, and improvement of the FREED model.
result The improved model produces molecules with superior docking scores.
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.
Generative model learns to create molecules with multiple properties using interpretable substructures.
problem Creating molecules with multiple chemical properties is challenging.
method Compose molecules from substructures identified as responsible for each property, using graph generative models.
result Significant improvements in accuracy, diversity, and novelty of generated compounds over state-of-the-art baselines.
A new model designs molecules with desired properties.
problem Finding molecules with optimal chemical or biological properties.
method A latent prompt Transformer model with three components: latent vector, molecule generation, and property prediction.
result The model achieves state-of-the-art performance on molecule design tasks.
Equivariant diffusion model generates 3D molecules efficiently.
problem Generating high-quality 3D molecules efficiently.
method Equivariant Diffusion Model (EDM) that operates on atom coordinates and types.
result Significantly outperforms previous methods in molecule quality and training efficiency.
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…
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.
Molecule optimization is about generating molecule with more desirable properties based on an input molecule . The state-of-the-art approaches partition the molecules into a large set of substructures and grow the new molecule structure by iteratively predicting which substructure from to add. However, s…
Designing a new drug is a lengthy and expensive process. As the space of potential molecules is very large (10^23-10^60), a common technique during drug discovery is to start from a molecule which already has some of the desired properties. An interdisciplinary team of scientists generates hypothesis about the required…
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.
New model generates larger molecules more effectively.
problem Previous graph generation techniques struggle with larger molecules.
method Hierarchical graph encoder-decoder using structural motifs.
result Model significantly outperforms previous baselines on molecule generation tasks.
Recent methods for generating novel molecules use graph representations of molecules and employ various forms of graph convolutional neural networks for inference. However, training requires solving an expensive graph isomorphism problem, which previous approaches do not address or solve only approximately. In this wor…
Molecule generation is to design new molecules with specific chemical properties and further to optimize the desired chemical properties. Following previous work, we encode molecules into continuous vectors in the latent space and then decode the vectors into molecules under the variational autoencoder (VAE) framework.…
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.
The new wave of successful generative models in machine learning has increased the interest in deep learning driven de novo drug design. However, assessing the performance of such generative models is notoriously difficult. Metrics that are typically used to assess the performance of such generative models are the perc…
The discovery of novel materials and functional molecules can help to solve some of society's most urgent challenges, ranging from efficient energy harvesting and storage to uncovering novel pharmaceutical drug candidates. Traditionally matter engineering -- generally denoted as inverse design -- was based massively on…
Predicting Drug Interactions and Mutagenicity with Ensemble Classifiers on Subgraphs of Moleculesstat.ML
In this study, we intend to solve a mutual information problem in interacting molecules of any type, such as proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules. Using machine learning techniques, we accurately predict pairwise interactions, which can be of medical and biological importance. Graphs are are useful in this prob…
CogMol designs novel drug-like molecules for SARS-CoV-2 targets.
problem Designing efficient drugs for novel viral proteins.
method End-to-end framework combining VAE, controlled sampling, and predictors.
result Highly selective and affinity molecules for SARS-CoV-2 targets.
Generative models have achieved impressive results in many domains including image and text generation. In the natural sciences, generative models have led to rapid progress in automated drug discovery. Many of the current methods focus on either 1-D or 2-D representations of typically small, drug-like molecules. Howev…
Molecular optimization aims to discover novel molecules with desirable properties. Two fundamental challenges are: (i) it is not trivial to generate valid molecules in a controllable way due to hard chemical constraints such as the valency conditions, and (ii) it is often costly to evaluate a property of a novel molecu…
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.
We propose a simple auto-encoder framework for molecule generation. The molecular graph is first encoded into a continuous latent representation , which is then decoded back to a molecule. The encoding process is easy, but the decoding process remains challenging. In this work, we introduce a simple two-step decodin…
Predicting the biological function of molecules, be it proteins or drug-like compounds, from their atomic structure is an important and long-standing problem. Function is dictated by structure, since it is by spatial interactions that molecules interact with each other, both in terms of steric complementarity, as well …
In applications such as molecule design or drug discovery, it is desirable to have an algorithm which recommends new candidate molecules based on the results of past tests. These molecules first need to be synthesized and then tested for objective properties. We describe ChemBO, a Bayesian optimization framework for ge…
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.
ConfFlow uses transformer networks to generate molecular conformations efficiently.
problem Efficient generation of valid conformations for large molecules.
method Flow-based model using transformer networks that directly samples in coordinate space.
result ConfFlow improves accuracy by up to 40% for large molecule conformations.
We present a framework, which we call Molecule Deep -Networks (MolDQN), for molecule optimization by combining domain knowledge of chemistry and state-of-the-art reinforcement learning techniques (double -learning and randomized value functions). We directly define modifications on molecules, thereby ensuring 100…
Physics-Constrained Predictive Molecular Latent Space Discovery with Graph Scattering Variational Autoencoderphysics.chem-ph
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.
New RL formulation for maximizing maximum reward in molecule generation.
problem Traditional RL frameworks do not fit real-world applications like drug discovery.
method Formulated a new objective function to maximize maximum reward, derived Bellman equation, introduced operators, and proved convergence.
result Achieved state-of-the-art results in molecule generation.
Benchmark proposes to assess molecule docking efficiency.
problem Lack of realistic benchmarks for measuring progress in drug design.
method Proposes a docking-based benchmark using SMINA software.
result Graph-based generative models fail to generate high-scoring molecules.
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.
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…
Semi-supervised learning of hierarchical representations of molecules using neural message passingstat.ML
With the rapid increase of compound databases available in medicinal and material science, there is a growing need for learning representations of molecules in a semi-supervised manner. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised hierarchical feature extraction algorithm for molecules (or more generally, graph-structured…
Framework tackles OOD challenges in molecule property prediction by modeling environments.
problem Challenges in modeling OOD samples for molecule property prediction.
method Soft causal learning framework incorporating chemistry theories and cross-attention mechanisms.
result Demonstrates well generalization ability on seven datasets.
Deep learning has proven to yield fast and accurate predictions of quantum-chemical properties to accelerate the discovery of novel molecules and materials. As an exhaustive exploration of the vast chemical space is still infeasible, we require generative models that guide our search towards systems with desired proper…
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.
E-NFs generate molecules and their positions while preserving Euclidean symmetries.
problem Generating molecules with their positions while preserving Euclidean symmetries.
method Integrating E(n) graph neural networks into a differential equation to create an invertible equivariant function.
result E-NFs significantly outperform baselines and existing methods in log-likelihood for particle systems and molecules.
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 …
Deep generative models have been praised for their ability to learn smooth latent representation of images, text, and audio, which can then be used to generate new, plausible data. However, current generative models are unable to work with molecular graphs due to their unique characteristics-their underlying structure …
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…
Improved graph generation model for small organic molecules.
problem Graph generation models struggle with matching training distributions and require expensive graph matching.
method Introduced a message passing neural network into the GVAE's encoder and decoder.
result Demonstrated improved graph generation for small organic molecules.
HLTF generates chemically valid 3D molecules with improved topology control.
problem Generating chemically valid 3D molecules is challenging due to bond topology errors.
method HLTF uses a latent multi-scale plan for global context and a constraint-aware sampler to suppress topology-driven failures.
result HLTF achieves high validity and uniqueness on QM9 and GEOM-DRUGS datasets.