Song Tao, Ren Yongqi, Wang Shuang, Han Peifu, Wang Lulu, Li Xue, Rodriguez-Patón Alfonso
College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China; Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte 28660, Madrid, Spain.
College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China.
Methods. 2023 Mar;211:10-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2023.02.001. Epub 2023 Feb 9.
Deep learning is improving and changing the process of de novo molecular design at a rapid pace. In recent years, great progress has been made in drug discovery and development by using deep generative models for de novo molecular design. However, most of the existing methods are string-based or graph-based and are limited by the lack of some very important properties, such as the three-dimensional information of molecules. We propose DNMG, a deep generative adversarial network (GAN) combined with transfer learning. Specifically, we use a Wasserstein-variant GAN based network architecture that considers the 3D grid spatial information of the ligand with atomic physicochemical properties to generate a representation of the molecule, which is then parsed into SMILES strings using an improved captioning network. Comprehensive in experiments demonstrate the ability of DNMG to generate valid and novel drug-like ligands. The DNMG model is used to design inhibitors for three targets, MK14, FNTA, and CDK2. The computational results show that the molecules generated by DNMG have better binding ability to the target proteins and better physicochemical properties. Overall, our deep generative model has excellent potential to generate molecules with high binding affinity for targets and explore the space of drug-like chemistry.
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