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ArticleNature communications2026

Scalable molecular representations enabled by multimodal fusion and sequence distillation.

Suvendu Kumar, Saveena Solanki, Mudit Gupta, Sonam Chauhan, Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, Shiva Satija, Abhinav Kumar Sharma, Subhadeep Duari, Arushi Sharma, Raidhani Shome and 9 more

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Suvendu Kumar *Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-4405-8402
Saveena Solanki *Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India. saveenas@iiitd.ac.in.ORCID 0000-0003-1079-9349
Mudit Gupta *Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Sonam Chauhan *Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Sanjay Kumar Mohanty *Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Shiva SatijaDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0001-8768-1539
Abhinav Kumar SharmaDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Subhadeep DuariDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Arushi SharmaDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Raidhani ShomeDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Vishakha GautamDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Sakshi AroraDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Syed Yasser AliDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Adnan RazaDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.ORCID 0009-0006-6398-3747
Sourav SinhaDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Aayushi MittalDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1973-8553
Debarka SenguptaDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6353-5411
Natarajan Arul MuruganDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Gaurav AhujaDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India. gaurav.ahuja@iiitd.ac.in.ORCID 0000-0002-2837-9361

Funding

Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology (DBT) BT/PR52020/AI/133/180/2024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular prediction depends on how chemical structures are represented, yet descriptors capture only partial aspects of chemical information. Here, we show that the Chemical Dice Integrator combines six complementary molecular views spanning physicochemical properties, molecular topology, two-dimensional structural images, bioactivity profiles, quantum properties, and molecular language into a unified latent space. This multimodal representation is distilled into a sequence-based model that generates the embedding directly from molecular strings. Across classification and regression benchmarks, the representation outperformed classical fusion methods, matched or improved established molecular descriptors, retained complete embedding coverage when individual feature-generation pipelines failed, and supported efficient inference. Scaffold-based and low-data evaluations showed stable generalization across chemical space and improved utility under limited data. The framework also prioritized compounds predicted to protect genome stability, leading to experimental validation of isoeugenol and eugenyl acetate in a yeast damage-response assay. These findings establish a scalable framework for molecular prediction and discovery.

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Models, MolecularMolecular StructureSaccharomyces cerevisiae

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PMID42901906
PMCPMC13683378

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