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Reviewnpj drug discovery2025

Recent advances in molecular representation methods and their applications in scaffold hopping.

Shihang Wang, Ran Zhang, Xiangcheng Li, Fengyu Cai, Xinyue Ma, Yilin Tang, Chao Xu, Lin Wang, Pengxuan Ren, Lu Liu and 3 more

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Review in npj drug discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Scaling Biomedical Text-Mining: Transformers, GenAI, and Drug Discovery.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Shihang WangShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Ran ZhangShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Xiangcheng LiShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Fengyu CaiSchool of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Xinyue MaSchool of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Yilin TangSchool of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Chao XuShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Lin WangShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Pengxuan RenShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Lu LiuShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Sanan WuShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Qiyang QianShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Fang BaiShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. baifang@shanghaitech.edu.cn.

Funding

National Key R&D Program of China 2022YFC3400501National Natural Science Foundation of China 82341093Shanghai Science and Technology Development Funds 24JS2850200ShanghaiTech AI4S Initiative SHTAI4S202404
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid evolution of molecular representation methods has significantly advanced the drug discovery process. Advances in language models, graph-based representations, and novel learning strategies have greatly improved the ability to characterize molecules. These AI-driven strategies extend beyond traditional structural data, facilitating exploration of broader chemical spaces and accelerating scaffold hopping. This review summarizes key advancements, discusses their advantages over conventional techniques, and highlights challenges in data quality and real-world applications.

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PMID42380238
PMCPMC13267071

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