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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2025

Graph-sequence enhanced transformer for template-free prediction of natural product biosynthesis.

Shan Cong, Meng Zhang, Yu Song, Sihao Chang, Jing Tian, Hongji Zeng, Hongchao Ji

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Shan CongCollege of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, P.R. China.
Meng ZhangQingdao Innovation and Development Center, Harbin Engineering University, Qingdao 266000, P.R. China.
Yu SongShenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, P.R. China.
Sihao ChangShenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, P.R. China.
Jing TianShenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, P.R. China.
Hongji ZengShenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, P.R. China.
Hongchao JiShenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, P.R. China.

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Abstract

Natural products (NPs) play a vital role in drug discovery, with many FDA-approved drugs derived from these compounds. Despite their significance, the biosynthetic pathways of NPs remain poorly characterized due to their inherent complexity and the limitations of traditional retrosynthesis methods in predicting such intricate reactions. While template-free machine learning models have demonstrated promise in organic synthesis, their application to biosynthetic pathways is still in its infancy. Addressing this gap, we propose the graph-sequence enhanced transformer (GSETransformer), which leverages both graph structural information and sequential dependencies to achieve superior performance in addressing the complexity of biosynthetic data. When evaluated on benchmark datasets, GSETransformer achieves state-of-the-art performance in single- and multi-step retrosynthesis tasks. These results highlight its effectiveness in computational biosynthesis and its potential to facilitate the design of NP-based therapeutics.

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biosynthesischeminformaticsmachine learningnatural product

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PMCPMC12365517

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