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ReviewJournal of chemical information and modeling2024

Application of Transformers in Cheminformatics.

Kha-Dinh Luong, Ambuj Singh

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Review in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  16. MOFGPT: Generative Design of Metal-Organic Frameworks using Language Models.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kha-Dinh LuongDepartment of Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States.ORCID 0009-0003-6919-4528
Ambuj SinghDepartment of Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By accelerating time-consuming processes with high efficiency, computing has become an essential part of many modern chemical pipelines. Machine learning is a class of computing methods that can discover patterns within chemical data and utilize this knowledge for a wide variety of downstream tasks, such as property prediction or substance generation. The complex and diverse chemical space requires complex machine learning architectures with great learning power. Recently, learning models based on transformer architectures have revolutionized multiple domains of machine learning, including natural language processing and computer vision. Naturally, there have been ongoing endeavors in adopting these techniques to the chemical domain, resulting in a surge of publications within a short period. The diversity of chemical structures, use cases, and learning models necessitate a comprehensive summarization of existing works. In this paper, we review recent innovations in adapting transformers to solve learning problems in chemistry. Because chemical data is diverse and complex, we structure our discussion based on chemical representations. Specifically, we highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each representation, the current progress of adapting transformer architectures, and future directions.

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CheminformaticsMachine Learningchemical representationscheminformaticsgraphsmachine learningsequencestransformer

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PMID38815246
PMCPMC11167597

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