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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2023

A molecule perturbation software library and its application to study the effects of molecular design constraints.

Alan Kerstjens, Hans De Winter

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  2. Molecule auto-correction to facilitate molecular design.Journal of computer-aided molecular design · 2024
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Alan KerstjensLaboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitslaan 1, 2610, Wilrijk, Belgium.
Hans De WinterLaboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitslaan 1, 2610, Wilrijk, Belgium. hans.dewinter@uantwerpen.be.

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Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 39461
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational molecular design can yield chemically unreasonable compounds when performed carelessly. A popular strategy to mitigate this risk is mimicking reference chemistry. This is commonly achieved by restricting the way in which molecules are constructed or modified. While it is well established that such an approach helps in designing chemically appealing molecules, concerns about these restrictions impacting chemical space exploration negatively linger. In this work we present a software library for constrained graph-based molecule manipulation and showcase its functionality by developing a molecule generator. Said generator designs molecules mimicking reference chemical features of differing granularity. We find that restricting molecular construction lightly, beyond the usual positive effects on drug-likeness and synthesizability of designed molecules, provides guidance to optimization algorithms navigating chemical space. Nonetheless, restricting molecular construction excessively can indeed hinder effective chemical space exploration.

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Chemical spaceConstraintsDe novo molecule generationMolecular designMolecular fingerprintsRDKitSoftware libraryTopological perturbations

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PMID37752561
PMCPMC10523775

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