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The Advent of Generative Chemistry

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Vanhaelen, Quentin, Lin, Yen-Chu, Zhavoronkov, Alex·2020·ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters

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Generative adversarial networks (GANs), first published in 2014, are among the most important concepts in modern artificial intelligence (AI). Bridging deep learning and game theory, GANs are used to generate or “imagine” new objects with desired properties. Since 2016, multiple GANs with reinforcement learning (RL) have been successfully applied in pharmacology for de novo molecular design. Those techniques aim at a more efficient use of the data and a better exploration of the chemical space. We review recent advances for the generation of novel molecules with desired properties with a focus on the applications of GANs, RL, and related techniques. We also discuss the current limitations and challenges in the new growing field of generative chemistry.

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  1. [61](61) Maziarka, Ł . et al.Mol-CycleGAN -a generative model for molecular optimization. arXiv (Machine Learning) , February 6, 2019, 1902.02119, ver. 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02119. - · arXiv

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Authors
Vanhaelen, Q., Lin, Y.-C., & Zhavoronkov, A.
Affiliations
Insilico Medicine Hong Kong Ltd , Pak Shek Kok , ,
Corresponding author
Vanhaelen, Quentin
Venue
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Published
2020-07-14
Volume
11
Issue
8
Pages
1496-1505
ISSN
1948-5875 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3043461363
Cited by
151
References
76
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 2
FWCI
9.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (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 › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Keywords
generative chemistry, generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, de novo molecular design, drug discovery, chemical space exploration, molecular property prediction, generative models

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