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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2025

ReactionT5: a pre-trained transformer model for accurate chemical reaction prediction with limited data.

Tatsuya Sagawa, Ryosuke Kojima

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Article in Journal of cheminformatics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Tatsuya SagawaGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
Ryosuke KojimaGraduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan. kojima.ryosuke.8e@kyoto-u.ac.jp.

Funding

Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology JPMJCR22D3Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP21H05207Moonshot Research and Development Program JPMJMS2024RIKEN AGIS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate chemical reaction prediction is critical for reducing both cost and time in drug development. This study introduces ReactionT5, a transformer-based chemical reaction foundation model pre-trained on the Open Reaction Database-a large publicly available reaction dataset. In benchmarks for product prediction, retrosynthesis, and yield prediction, ReactionT5 outperformed existing models. Specifically, ReactionT5 achieved 97.5% accuracy in product prediction, 71.0% in retrosynthesis, and a coefficient of determination of 0.947 in yield prediction. Remarkably, ReactionT5, when fine-tuned with only a limited dataset of reactions, achieved performance on par with models fine-tuned on the complete dataset. Additionally, the visualization of ReactionT5 embeddings illustrates that the model successfully captures and represents the chemical reaction space, indicating effective learning of reaction properties.

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Chemical reactionDeep learningFoundation modelMachine learningOrganic chemistryReaction spaceTransformers

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PMID40830907
PMCPMC12366004

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