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ReviewJournal of medicinal chemistry2022

Defining Levels of Automated Chemical Design.

Brian Goldman, Steven Kearnes, Trevor Kramer, Patrick Riley, W Patrick Walters

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Review in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. DrugGym: A testbed for the economics of autonomous drug discovery.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  7. AlvaBuilder: A Software for De Novo Molecular Design.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Brian GoldmanRelay Therapeutics, 399 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Steven KearnesRelay Therapeutics, 399 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Trevor KramerRelay Therapeutics, 399 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Patrick RileyRelay Therapeutics, 399 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0797-0272
W Patrick WaltersRelay Therapeutics, 399 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2860-7958

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One application area of computational methods in drug discovery is the automated design of small molecules. Despite the large number of publications describing methods and their application in both retrospective and prospective studies, there is a lack of agreement on terminology and key attributes to distinguish these various systems. We introduce Automated Chemical Design (ACD) Levels to clearly define the level of autonomy along the axes of ideation and decision making. To fully illustrate this framework, we provide literature exemplars and place some notable methods and applications into the levels. The ACD framework provides a common language for describing automated small molecule design systems and enables medicinal chemists to better understand and evaluate such systems.

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PMID35511951
PMCPMC9150065

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