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ArticleRSC medicinal chemistry2024

Extension of multi-site analogue series with potent compounds using a bidirectional transformer-based chemical language model.

Hengwei Chen, Atsushi Yoshimori, Jürgen Bajorath

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Hengwei ChenDepartment of Life Science Informatics and Data Science, B-IT, LIMES Program Unit Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Bonn Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 5/6 D-53115 Bonn Germany bajorath@bit.uni-bonn.de +49 228 7369 100.
Atsushi YoshimoriInstitute for Theoretical Medicine, Inc. 26-1 Muraoka-Higashi 2-chome Fujisawa Kanagawa 251-0012 Japan.
Jürgen BajorathDepartment of Life Science Informatics and Data Science, B-IT, LIMES Program Unit Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Bonn Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 5/6 D-53115 Bonn Germany bajorath@bit.uni-bonn.de +49 228 7369 100.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0557-5714

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Abstract

Generating potent compounds for evolving analogue series (AS) is a key challenge in medicinal chemistry. The versatility of chemical language models (CLMs) makes it possible to formulate this challenge as an off-the-beaten-path prediction task. In this work, we have devised a coding and tokenization scheme for evolving AS with multiple substitution sites (multi-site AS) and implemented a bidirectional transformer to predict new potent analogues for such series. Scientific foundations of this approach are discussed and, as a benchmark, the transformer model is compared to a recurrent neural network (RNN) for the prediction of analogues of AS with single substitution sites. Furthermore, the transformer is shown to successfully predict potent analogues with varying R-group combinations for multi-site AS having activity against many different targets. Prediction of R-group combinations for extending AS with potent compounds represents a novel approach for compound optimization.

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PMID39026633
PMCPMC11253848

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