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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2024

MolScore: a scoring, evaluation and benchmarking framework for generative models in de novo drug design.

Morgan Thomas, Noel M O'Boyle, Andreas Bender, Chris De Graaf

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Article in Journal of cheminformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Morgan ThomasCentre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK. morganthomas263@gmail.com.
Noel M O'BoyleComputational Chemistry, Nxera Pharma, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, CB21 6DG, UK.
Andreas BenderCentre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.
Chris De GraafComputational Chemistry, Nxera Pharma, Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, CB21 6DG, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Generative models are undergoing rapid research and application to de novo drug design. To facilitate their application and evaluation, we present MolScore. MolScore already contains many drug-design-relevant scoring functions commonly used in benchmarks such as, molecular similarity, molecular docking, predictive models, synthesizability, and more. In addition, providing performance metrics to evaluate generative model performance based on the chemistry generated. With this unification of functionality, MolScore re-implements commonly used benchmarks in the field (such as GuacaMol, MOSES, and MolOpt). Moreover, new benchmarks can be created trivially. We demonstrate this by testing a chemical language model with reinforcement learning on three new tasks of increasing complexity related to the design of 5-HT

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BenchmarkingDe novo molecule generationDrug designGenerative modelScoring functions

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