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20232026
most citedDrugCLIP: Contrastive Protein-Molecule Representation Learning for Virtual Screening

8 citations · 28 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.LG2026

Enhancing Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models for Metal-Organic Frameworks Structure Prediction

Mianzhi Pan, JianFei Li, Peishuo Liu +5

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline materials with broad applications such as carbon capture and drug delivery, yet accurately predicting their 3D structures rem…

cs.LG2025

FLEX: Continuous Agent Evolution via Forward Learning from Experience

Zhicheng Cai, Xinyuan Guo, Yu Pei +7

Autonomous agents driven by Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized reasoning and problem-solving but remain static after training, unable to grow with experience as intel…

cs.LG2025

SDrug: Bridging Protein Sequence and 3D Structure in Contrastive Representation Learning for Virtual Screening

Bowei He, Bowen Gao, Yankai Chen +5

Virtual screening (VS) is an essential task in drug discovery, focusing on the identification of small-molecule ligands that bind to specific protein pockets. Existing deep learnin…

cs.LG2025

Coder as Editor: Code-driven Interpretable Molecular Editing

Wenyu Zhu, Chengzhu Li, Xiaohe Tian +8

Molecular design is a central task in drug discovery that requires precise structural reasoning and domain knowledge. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in gener…

cs.LG2025

Learning Protein-Ligand Binding in Hyperbolic Space

Jianhui Wang, Wenyu Zhu, Bowen Gao +4

Protein-ligand binding prediction is central to virtual screening and affinity ranking, two fundamental tasks in drug discovery. While recent retrieval-based methods embed ligands…

physics.chem-ph2025

Revisiting Sampling Strategies for Molecular Generation

Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Wei-Ying Ma +2

Sampling strategies in diffusion models are critical to molecular generation yet remain relatively underexplored. In this work, we investigate a broad spectrum of sampling methods…

cs.LG2025

AANet: Virtual Screening under Structural Uncertainty via Alignment and Aggregation

Wenyu Zhu, Jianhui Wang, Bowen Gao +5

Virtual screening (VS) is a critical component of modern drug discovery, yet most existing methods--whether physics-based or deep learning-based--are developed around holo protein…

cs.LG2025

Manipulating 3D Molecules in a Fixed-Dimensional E(3)-Equivariant Latent Space

Zitao Chen, Yinjun Jia, Zitong Tian +2

Medicinal chemists often optimize drugs considering their 3D structures and designing structurally distinct molecules that retain key features, such as shapes, pharmacophores, or c…

q-bio.BM2025★ 2 cited

PharmAgents: Building a Virtual Pharma with Large Language Model Agents

Bowen Gao, Yanwen Huang, Yiqiao Liu +4

The discovery of novel small molecule drugs remains a critical scientific challenge with far-reaching implications for treating diseases and advancing human health. Traditional dru…

q-bio.BM2025

Pushing the boundaries of Structure-Based Drug Design through Collaboration with Large Language Models

Bowen Gao, Yanwen Huang, Yiqiao Liu +4

Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) has revolutionized drug discovery by enabling the rational design of molecules for specific protein targets. Despite significant advancements in…

cs.LG2025

Straight-Line Diffusion Model for Efficient 3D Molecular Generation

Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Haohan Chi +5

Diffusion-based models have shown great promise in molecular generation but often require a large number of sampling steps to generate valid samples. In this paper, we introduce a…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

UniGEM: A Unified Approach to Generation and Property Prediction for Molecules

Shikun Feng, Yuyan Ni, Yan Lu +3

Molecular generation and molecular property prediction are both crucial for drug discovery, but they are often developed independently. Inspired by recent studies, which demonstrat…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Pre-training with Fractional Denoising to Enhance Molecular Property Prediction

Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Xin Hong +5

Deep learning methods have been considered promising for accelerating molecular screening in drug discovery and material design. Due to the limited availability of labelled data, v…

physics.chem-ph2024

MoleculeCLA: Rethinking Molecular Benchmark via Computational Ligand-Target Binding Analysis

Shikun Feng, Jiaxin Zheng, Yinjun Jia +4

Molecular representation learning is pivotal for various molecular property prediction tasks related to drug discovery. Robust and accurate benchmarks are essential for refining an…

q-bio.BM2024

From Theory to Therapy: Reframing SBDD Model Evaluation via Practical Metrics

Bowen Gao, Haichuan Tan, Yanwen Huang +5

Recent advancements in structure-based drug design (SBDD) have significantly enhanced the efficiency and precision of drug discovery by generating molecules tailored to bind specif…

q-bio.BM2024★ 2 cited

SIU: A Million-Scale Structural Small Molecule-Protein Interaction Dataset for Unbiased Bioactivity Prediction

Yanwen Huang, Bowen Gao, Yinjun Jia +4

Small molecules play a pivotal role in modern medicine, and scrutinizing their interactions with protein targets is essential for the discovery and development of novel, life-savin…

q-bio.BM2024

UniCorn: A Unified Contrastive Learning Approach for Multi-view Molecular Representation Learning

Shikun Feng, Yuyan Ni, Minghao Li +4

Recently, a noticeable trend has emerged in developing pre-trained foundation models in the domains of CV and NLP. However, for molecular pre-training, there lacks a universal mode…

q-bio.BM2024★ 2 cited

Rethinking Specificity in SBDD: Leveraging Delta Score and Energy-Guided Diffusion

Bowen Gao, Minsi Ren, Yuyan Ni +5

In the field of Structure-based Drug Design (SBDD), deep learning-based generative models have achieved outstanding performance in terms of docking score. However, further study sh…

cs.LG2024

Contextual Molecule Representation Learning from Chemical Reaction Knowledge

Han Tang, Shikun Feng, Bicheng Lin +4

In recent years, self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful tool to harness abundant unlabelled data for representation learning and has been broadly adopted in diverse are…

q-bio.BM2023★ 4 cited

Protein-ligand binding representation learning from fine-grained interactions

Shikun Feng, Minghao Li, Yinjun Jia +2

The binding between proteins and ligands plays a crucial role in the realm of drug discovery. Previous deep learning approaches have shown promising results over traditional comput…

q-bio.BM2023

Sliced Denoising: A Physics-Informed Molecular Pre-Training Method

Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Wei-Ying Ma +2

While molecular pre-training has shown great potential in enhancing drug discovery, the lack of a solid physical interpretation in current methods raises concerns about whether the…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

DrugCLIP: Contrastive Protein-Molecule Representation Learning for Virtual Screening

Bowen Gao, Bo Qiang, Haichuan Tan +6

Virtual screening, which identifies potential drugs from vast compound databases to bind with a particular protein pocket, is a critical step in AI-assisted drug discovery. Traditi…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

UniMAP: Universal SMILES-Graph Representation Learning

Shikun Feng, Lixin Yang, Yanwen Huang +3

Molecular representation learning is fundamental for many drug related applications. Most existing molecular pre-training models are limited in using single molecular modality, eit…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

ProFSA: Self-supervised Pocket Pretraining via Protein Fragment-Surroundings Alignment

Bowen Gao, Yinjun Jia, Yuanle Mo +4

Pocket representations play a vital role in various biomedical applications, such as druggability estimation, ligand affinity prediction, and de novo drug design. While existing ge…