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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2023

cMolGPT: A Conditional Generative Pre-Trained Transformer for Target-Specific De Novo Molecular Generation.

Ye Wang, Honggang Zhao, Simone Sciabola, Wenlu Wang

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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4 authors.

Ye WangBiotherapeutic and Medicinal Sciences, Biogen, 225 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5274-2928
Honggang ZhaoCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6945-0331
Simone SciabolaBiotherapeutic and Medicinal Sciences, Biogen, 225 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1448-3608
Wenlu WangComputer Science, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Dr, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4829-1068

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deep generative models applied to the generation of novel compounds in small-molecule drug design have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. To design compounds that interact with specific target proteins, we propose a Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT)-inspired model for de novo target-specific molecular design. By implementing different keys and values for the multi-head attention conditional on a specified target, the proposed method can generate drug-like compounds both with and without a specific target. The results show that our approach (cMolGPT) is capable of generating SMILES strings that correspond to both drug-like and active compounds. Moreover, the compounds generated from the conditional model closely match the chemical space of real target-specific molecules and cover a significant portion of novel compounds. Thus, the proposed Conditional Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (cMolGPT) is a valuable tool for de novo molecule design and has the potential to accelerate the molecular optimization cycle time.

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Animal DiseasesDrug DesignAnimalsgenerative pre-trained transformerGPTmachine learningmolecular design

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PMID37298906
PMCPMC10254772

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