Application of Generative Autoencoder in De Novo Molecular Design

Abstract: A major challenge in computational chemistry is the generation of novel molecular structures with desirable pharmacological and physiochemical properties. In this work, we investigate the potential use of autoencoder, a deep learning methodology, for de novo molecular design. Various generative autoencoders were used to map molecule structures into a continuous latent space and vice versa and their performance as structure generator was assessed. Our results show that the latent space preserves chemical similarity principle and thus can be used for the generation of analogue structures. Furthermore, the latent space created by autoencoders were searched systematically to generate novel compounds with predicted activity against dopamine receptor type 2 and compounds similar to known active compounds not included in the trainings set were identified.

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Application of Generative Autoencoder in De Novo Molecular Design ; volume:37 ; number:1-2 ; year:2018 ; extent:11
Molecular informatics ; 37, Heft 1-2 (2018) (gesamt 11)

Creator
Blaschke, Thomas
Olivecrona, Marcus
Engkvist, Ola
Bajorath, Jürgen
Chen, Hongming

DOI
10.1002/minf.201700123
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022082108141657946728
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Blaschke, Thomas
  • Olivecrona, Marcus
  • Engkvist, Ola
  • Bajorath, Jürgen
  • Chen, Hongming

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