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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2019

Analyzing Learned Molecular Representations for Property Prediction.

Kevin Yang, Kyle Swanson, Wengong Jin, Connor Coley, Philipp Eiden, Hua Gao, Angel Guzman-Perez, Timothy Hopper, Brian Kelley, Miriam Mathea and 5 more

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 587 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Kevin YangComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , MIT , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
Kyle SwansonComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , MIT , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7385-7844
Wengong JinComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , MIT , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
Connor ColeyDepartment of Chemical Engineering , MIT , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8271-8723
Philipp EidenBASF SE , Ludwigshafen 67063 , Germany.
Hua GaoAmgen Inc. , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02141 , United States.
Angel Guzman-PerezAmgen Inc. , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02141 , United States.
Timothy HopperAmgen Inc. , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02141 , United States.
Brian KelleyNovartis Institutes for BioMedical Research , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
Miriam MatheaBASF SE , Ludwigshafen 67063 , Germany.
Andrew PalmerBASF SE , Ludwigshafen 67063 , Germany.
Volker SettelsBASF SE , Ludwigshafen 67063 , Germany.
Tommi JaakkolaComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , MIT , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
Klavs JensenDepartment of Chemical Engineering , MIT , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7192-580X
Regina BarzilayComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , MIT , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advancements in neural machinery have led to a wide range of algorithmic solutions for molecular property prediction. Two classes of models in particular have yielded promising results: neural networks applied to computed molecular fingerprints or expert-crafted descriptors and graph convolutional neural networks that construct a learned molecular representation by operating on the graph structure of the molecule. However, recent literature has yet to clearly determine which of these two methods is superior when generalizing to new chemical space. Furthermore, prior research has rarely examined these new models in industry research settings in comparison to existing employed models. In this paper, we benchmark models extensively on 19 public and 16 proprietary industrial data sets spanning a wide variety of chemical end points. In addition, we introduce a graph convolutional model that consistently matches or outperforms models using fixed molecular descriptors as well as previous graph neural architectures on both public and proprietary data sets. Our empirical findings indicate that while approaches based on these representations have yet to reach the level of experimental reproducibility, our proposed model nevertheless offers significant improvements over models currently used in industrial workflows.

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Neural Networks, ComputerComputer Graphics

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PMID31361484
PMCPMC6727618

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