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Deep learning in drug discovery: opportunities, challenges and future prospects

Lavecchia, Antonio·2019·Drug Discovery Today

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that simulates the structures and operating principles of the human brain. Machine learning (ML) belongs to the area of AI and endeavors to develop models from exposure to training data. Deep Learning (DL) is another subset of AI, where models represent geometric transformations over many different layers. This technology has shown tremendous potential in areas such as computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. More recently, DL has also been successfully applied in drug discovery. Here, I analyze several relevant DL applications and case studies, providing a detailed view of the current state-of-the-art in drug discovery and highlighting not only the problematic issues, but also the successes and opportunities for further advances.

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  • Drug molecules and associated features used in in silico models are transformed into vector format; data include molecular descriptors, molecular fingerprints, SMILES strings, and grids for convolutional neural networks.

    “The drug molecules and the associated features used in the in silico models are transformed into vector format so they can be read by the learning systems. Generally, the data used here include molecular descriptors (e.g., physicochemical properties) and molecular fingerprints (molecular structure) as well as simplified molecular input line entry system (SMILES) strings and grids for convolutional”

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Authors
Lavecchia, A.
Affiliations
University of Naples Federico II (IT)
Corresponding author
Lavecchia, Antonio
Venue
Drug Discovery Today
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-10
Volume
24
Issue
10
Pages
2017-2032
ISSN
1359-6446 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2964677890
Cited by
353
References
157
Citations by year
2026: 29 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 76 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 50 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 25
FWCI
2.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Drug Discovery Today (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
Keywords
deep learning, drug discovery, machine learning, artificial intelligence, future prospects
MeSH terms
Deep Learning, Forecasting, Humans, Drug Discovery

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