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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2022

On the Value of Using 3D Shape and Electrostatic Similarities in Deep Generative Methods.

Giovanni Bolcato, Esther Heid, Jonas Boström

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Generative Deep Learning for de Novo Drug Design─A Chemical Space Odyssey.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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  20. Open-Source Machine Learning in Computational Chemistry.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Giovanni BolcatoMolecular Modeling Section, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Esther HeidDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139 Massachusetts, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8404-6596
Jonas BoströmMedicinal Chemistry, Early CVRM, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, 431 50 Mölndal, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9719-9137

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiparameter optimization, the heart of drug design, is still an open challenge. Thus, improved methods for automated compound design with multiple controlled properties are desired. Here, we present a significant extension to our previously described fragment-based reinforcement learning method (DeepFMPO) for the generation of novel molecules with optimal properties. As before, the generative process outputs optimized molecules similar to the input structures, now with the improved feature of replacing parts of these molecules with fragments of similar three-dimensional (3D) shape and electrostatics. We developed and benchmarked a new python package, ESP-Sim, for the comparison of the electrostatic potential and the molecular shape, allowing the calculation of high-quality partial charges (e.g., RESP with B3LYP/6-31G**) obtained using the quantum chemistry program Psi4. By performing comparisons of 3D fragments, we can simulate 3D properties while overcoming the notoriously difficult step of accurately describing bioactive conformations. The new improved generative (DeepFMPO v3D) method is demonstrated with a scaffold-hopping exercise identifying CDK2 bioisosteres. The code is open-source and freely available.

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PMCPMC8965872

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