arXiv:2501.12434cs.LGcs.AI2025-01被引 1

利用分子构象信息提升逆合成预测准确率,避免化学不合理结果。

ConfRetro: a 3D-aware template-free method for enhancing retrosynthesis via molecular conformer information

  • 通过原子对齐融合模块整合3D坐标信息,确保原子与空间位置一致
  • 引入距离加权注意力机制,聚焦化学相关原子对,提升预测合理性
  • 在多个药物分子上验证有效,适合复杂结构逆合成任务

逆合成在有机合成与药物发现中至关重要,旨在识别能生成目标分子的反应物组合。现有方法未充分挖掘分子三维构象与空间结构信息,可能导致立体化学不一致或化学上不合理的结果。为此,我们提出ConfRetro,一种基于Transformer的无模板方法,融合分子构象信息与空间结构。设计原子对齐融合模块,在模型输入阶段结合原子标记与3D位置信息,确保原子与空间表示对齐;同时引入距离加权注意力机制,限制自注意力范围,强化三维空间中化学相关的原子对关注。在USPTO-50K和USPTO-FULL数据集上的实验表明,ConfRetro显著优于现有无模板方法,达到新基准性能。案例研究显示,即使对结构复杂的分子(如喜树碱)也能预测出准确且化学合理的反应物。该方法可集成至标准逆合成搜索流程,成功恢复多个代表性药物分子的可行合成路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Motivation: Retrosynthesis plays a crucial role in organic synthesis and drug discovery, focusing on identifying a set of reactants capable of synthesizing a target product molecule. Although the existing approaches have shown promising results, they do not fully exploit 3D conformer information and molecular spatial structure, which can hinder stereochemically consistent and chemically plausible predictions. Results: To tackle this problem, we propose ConfRetro, a Transformer-based template-free method that integrates molecular conformer information and spatial structure. We devise an Atom-align Fusion module to combine 3D positional information at the model input stage, ensuring alignment between atom tokens and corresponding 3D representations. Furthermore, we design a Distance-weighted Attention mechanism to guide self-attention, constraining the receptive field of model and emphasizing chemically relevant atom pairs in 3D space. Experiments conducted on the USPTO-50K and USPTO-FULL datasets demonstrate that ConfRetro significantly outperforms existing template-free approaches, achieving a new state-of-the-art performance. Case studies further highlight its capability to predict accurate and chemically plausible reactants, even for target molecules with intricate structures. Moreover, when plugged into a standard retrosynthetic search, ConfRetro recovers feasible synthetic routes for multiple representative drug molecules (e.g. Camptothecin). Availability and implementation: ConfRetro is available at https://github.com/Jesse-zjx/ConfRetro. Archival snapshot is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20785018.

逆合成3D建模分子生成

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