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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2024

Evolutionary Multiobjective Molecule Optimization in an Implicit Chemical Space.

Xin Xia, Yiping Liu, Chunhou Zheng, Xingyi Zhang, Qingwen Wu, Xin Gao, Xiangxiang Zeng, Yansen Su

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Article 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 5 papers.

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Xin XiaThe Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.
Yiping LiuCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China.
Chunhou ZhengThe Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.
Xingyi ZhangThe Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.
Qingwen WuThe Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.
Xin GaoComputer Science Program, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division, Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-7108-3574
Xiangxiang ZengCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China.
Yansen SuThe Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3855-7133

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Abstract

Optimization techniques play a pivotal role in advancing drug development, serving as the foundation of numerous generative methods tailored to efficiently design optimized molecules derived from existing lead compounds. However, existing methods often encounter difficulties in generating diverse, novel, and high-property molecules that simultaneously optimize multiple drug properties. To overcome this bottleneck, we propose a multiobjective molecule optimization framework (MOMO). MOMO employs a specially designed Pareto-based multiproperty evaluation strategy at the molecular sequence level to guide the evolutionary search in an implicit chemical space. A comparative analysis of MOMO with five state-of-the-art methods across two benchmark multiproperty molecule optimization tasks reveals that MOMO markedly outperforms them in terms of diversity, novelty, and optimized properties. The practical applicability of MOMO in drug discovery has also been validated on four challenging tasks in the real-world discovery problem. These results suggest that MOMO can provide a useful tool to facilitate molecule optimization problems with multiple properties.

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