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ArticleCommunications chemistry2024

Geometry-complete diffusion for 3D molecule generation and optimization.

Alex Morehead, Jianlin Cheng

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Article in Communications chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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Alex MoreheadDepartment of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, NextGen Precision Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA. acmwhb@missouri.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0586-6191
Jianlin ChengDepartment of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, NextGen Precision Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0305-2853

Funding

Integrated Prediction of Protein Struture at 1D, 2D and 3D LevelsR01GM093123 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CHENG, JIANLIN · 2010 to 2023
$3.8M
Deep learning methods for automated and accurate reconstruction of protein structures from cryo-EM image dataR01GM146340 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CHENG, JIANLIN · 2022 to 2025
$1.4M
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Inc.) R01GM093123Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Inc.) R01GM146340National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI1759934National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI2308699National Science Foundation (NSF) IIS1763246NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093123NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM146340U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AR0001213U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0020400U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE- SC0021303
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Abstract

Generative deep learning methods have recently been proposed for generating 3D molecules using equivariant graph neural networks (GNNs) within a denoising diffusion framework. However, such methods are unable to learn important geometric properties of 3D molecules, as they adopt molecule-agnostic and non-geometric GNNs as their 3D graph denoising networks, which notably hinders their ability to generate valid large 3D molecules. In this work, we address these gaps by introducing the Geometry-Complete Diffusion Model (GCDM) for 3D molecule generation, which outperforms existing 3D molecular diffusion models by significant margins across conditional and unconditional settings for the QM9 dataset and the larger GEOM-Drugs dataset, respectively. Importantly, we demonstrate that GCDM's generative denoising process enables the model to generate a significant proportion of valid and energetically-stable large molecules at the scale of GEOM-Drugs, whereas previous methods fail to do so with the features they learn. Additionally, we show that extensions of GCDM can not only effectively design 3D molecules for specific protein pockets but can be repurposed to consistently optimize the geometry and chemical composition of existing 3D molecules for molecular stability and property specificity, demonstrating new versatility of molecular diffusion models. Code and data are freely available on GitHub .

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PMCPMC11222514

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