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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2025

MolSnapper: Conditioning Diffusion for Structure-Based Drug Design.

Yael Ziv, Fergus Imrie, Brian Marsden, Charlotte M Deane

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Benchmarking 3D Structure-Based Molecule Generators.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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  11. Diffusion Models in De Novo Drug Design.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2024
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4 authors.

Yael ZivDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LB, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-0179-9945
Fergus ImrieDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LB, U.K.
Brian MarsdenNuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7BN, U.K.
Charlotte M DeaneDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LB, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-1388-2252

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Generative models have emerged as potentially powerful methods for molecular design, yet challenges persist in generating molecules that effectively bind to the intended target. The ability to control the design process and incorporate prior knowledge would be highly beneficial for better tailoring molecules to fit specific binding sites. In this paper, we introduce MolSnapper, a novel tool that is able to condition diffusion models for structure-based drug design by seamlessly integrating expert knowledge in the form of 3D pharmacophores. We demonstrate through comprehensive testing on both the CrossDocked and Binding MOAD data sets that our method generates molecules better tailored to fit a given binding site, achieving high structural and chemical similarity to the original molecules. Additionally, MolSnapper yields approximately twice as many valid molecules as alternative methods.

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Drug DesignBinding SitesDiffusionModels, Molecular

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PMID40248896
PMCPMC12076506

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