Self-driving laboratories for chemistry and materials science

G Tom, SP Schmid, SG Baird, Y Cao, K Darvish… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) promise an accelerated application of the scientific method.
Through the automation of experimental workflows, along with autonomous experimental …

Deep Lead Optimization: Leveraging Generative AI for Structural Modification

O Zhang, H Lin, H Zhang, H Zhao… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The integration of deep learning-based molecular generation models into drug discovery
has garnered significant attention for its potential to expedite the development process …

BindingDB in 2024: a FAIR knowledgebase of protein-small molecule binding data

T Liu, L Hwang, SK Burley, CI Nitsche… - Nucleic acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
BindingDB (bindingdb. org) is a public, web-accessible database of experimentally
measured binding affinities between small molecules and proteins, which supports diverse …

CACHE Challenge# 1: targeting the WDR domain of LRRK2, a Parkinson's Disease associated protein

F Li, S Ackloo, CH Arrowsmith, F Ban… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The CACHE challenges are a series of prospective benchmarking exercises to evaluate
progress in the field of computational hit-finding. Here we report the results of the inaugural …

Unlocking the potential of generative AI in drug discovery

A Gangwal, A Lavecchia - Drug Discovery Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the drug discovery process by providing
actionable insights from huge amount of data.•Deep-learning models, especially generative …

Development of PROTACs using computational approaches

J Ge, CY Hsieh, M Fang, H Sun, T Hou - Trends in Pharmacological …, 2024 - cell.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are drugs designed to degrade target proteins
via the ubiquitin-proteasome system. With the application of computational biology/chemistry …

Optimal Molecular Design: Generative Active Learning Combining REINVENT with Precise Binding Free Energy Ranking Simulations

HH Loeffler, S Wan, M Klähn, AP Bhati… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Active learning (AL) is a specific instance of sequential experimental design and uses
machine learning to intelligently choose the next data point or batch of molecular structures …

[HTML][HTML] Augmenting DMTA using predictive AI modelling at AstraZeneca

G Marco, E Evertsson, DJ Riley, C Tyrchan… - Drug Discovery …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Design-Make-Test-Analyse (DMTA) is the discovery cycle through which molecules
are designed, synthesised, and assayed to produce data that in turn are analysed to inform …

Efficient 3d molecular generation with flow matching and scale optimal transport

R Irwin, A Tibo, JP Janet, S Olsson - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.07266, 2024 - arxiv.org
Generative models for 3D drug design have gained prominence recently for their potential to
design ligands directly within protein pockets. Current approaches, however, often suffer …

Perspectives on current approaches to virtual screening in drug discovery

I Muegge, J Bentzien, Y Ge - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction For the past two decades, virtual screening (VS) has been an efficient hit finding
approach for drug discovery. Today, billions of commercially accessible compounds are …