RxnFlow用合成路径生成药物分子,兼顾可合成性与多样性。
Generative Flows on Synthetic Pathway for Drug Design
- 基于反应模板和片段构建分子,约束合成路径
- 在120万片段+71种反应下生成分子,得分-8.85 kcal/mol
- 支持灵活扩展反应库,适合药物研发人员使用
生成模型在药物发现中作为高效替代方案受到关注,但多数模型未考虑可合成性,限制了实际应用。本文提出RxnFlow,通过预定义的分子片段和化学反应模板,按顺序组装分子以约束合成路径。采用生成流网络(GFlowNets)训练该过程,生成高奖励且多样化的分子。为应对合成路径动作空间过大问题,提出新颖的动作空间子采样方法,使RxnFlow能在包含120万种片段和71种反应模板的庞大空间中高效训练,无显著计算开销。此外,该模型可在不重新训练的情况下,灵活调整或扩展动作空间,支持新增目标或引入新片段。实验表明,RxnFlow在多个靶点口袋的特异性优化中优于现有反应基与片段基模型;在CrossDocked2020数据集上实现平均Vina得分为-8.85 kcal/mol,可合成性达34.8%,达到当前最优水平。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Generative models in drug discovery have recently gained attention as efficient alternatives to brute-force virtual screening. However, most existing models do not account for synthesizability, limiting their practical use in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose RxnFlow, which sequentially assembles molecules using predefined molecular building blocks and chemical reaction templates to constrain the synthetic chemical pathway. We then train on this sequential generating process with the objective of generative flow networks (GFlowNets) to generate both highly rewarded and diverse molecules. To mitigate the large action space of synthetic pathways in GFlowNets, we implement a novel action space subsampling method. This enables RxnFlow to learn generative flows over extensive action spaces comprising combinations of 1.2 million building blocks and 71 reaction templates without significant computational overhead. Additionally, RxnFlow can employ modified or expanded action spaces for generation without retraining, allowing for the introduction of additional objectives or the incorporation of newly discovered building blocks. We experimentally demonstrate that RxnFlow outperforms existing reaction-based and fragment-based models in pocket-specific optimization across various target pockets. Furthermore, RxnFlow achieves state-of-the-art performance on CrossDocked2020 for pocket-conditional generation, with an average Vina score of -8.85 kcal/mol and 34.8% synthesizability.
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