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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2024

Structure-Based Drug Design with a Deep Hierarchical Generative Model.

Jesse A Weller, Remo Rohs

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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 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Circumventing the Synthesizability Problem in Generative Molecular Design.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  3. Applying Deep-Learning-DrivenJournal of medicinal chemistry · 2026
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  12. Assay2Mol: Large Language Model-based Drug Design Using BioAssay Context.Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2025
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  17. MolSnapper: Conditioning Diffusion for Structure-Based Drug Design.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Jesse A WellerDepartment of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7184-4241
Remo RohsDepartment of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1752-1884

Funding

Quantitative Modeling of Transcription Factor-DNA BindingR35GM130376 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Remo Rohs · 2019 to 2026
$3.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM130376
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, the remarkable growth of available crystal structure data and libraries of commercially available or readily synthesizable molecules have unlocked previously inaccessible regions of chemical space for drug development. Paired with improvements in virtual ligand screening methods, these expanded libraries are having a notable impact on early drug design efforts. Yet screening-based methods still face scalability limits, due to computational constraints and the sheer scale of drug-like space. Machine learning approaches are overcoming these limitations by learning the fundamental intra- and intermolecular relationships in drug-target systems from existing data. Here, we introduce DrugHIVE, a deep hierarchical variational autoencoder that outperforms state-of-the-art autoregressive and diffusion-based methods in both speed and performance on common generative benchmarks. DrugHIVE's hierarchical design enables improved control over molecular generation. Its capabilities include dramatically increasing virtual screening efficiency and accelerating a wide range of common drug design tasks, including de novo generation, molecular optimization, scaffold hopping, linker design, and high-throughput pattern replacement. Our highly scalable method can even be applied to receptors with high-confidence AlphaFold-predicted structures, extending the ability to generate high-quality drug-like molecules to a majority of the unsolved human proteome.

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Drug DesignDeep LearningHumansLigandsModels, MolecularLigands

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PMID39058534
PMCPMC11350878

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