用AI智能设计分子连接器,自动修复重复结构并优化药效
FragmentGPT: A Unified GPT Model for Fragment Growing, Linking, and Merging in Molecular Design
- 基于GPT的统一框架,可生长、链接、合并分子片段
- 在真实癌症数据集上生成高化学有效性、多目标优化分子
- 适合药物研发人员快速构建候选化合物,尤其擅长处理复杂结构
基于片段的药物发现(FBDD)是早期药物开发的常用方法,但设计有效的连接子将孤立的分子片段组合成化学和药理学可行的候选物仍具挑战性。当片段包含重复结构(如重复环)时,仅通过增减原子或键无法解决。为此,我们提出FragmentGPT,集成两个核心组件:(1) 一种新型化学感知、基于能量的键断裂预训练策略,赋予GPT模型片段生长、链接和合并能力;(2) 一种奖励排序对齐与专家探索(RAE)算法,结合专家模仿学习提升多样性,通过数据选择与增强实现帕累托最优和综合评分最优,并使用监督微调(SFT)使学习策略对齐多目标。在片段对条件下,FragmentGPT能生成连接多样化分子单元的连接子,同时优化多重药学目标。它还学会通过智能合并解决重复片段等结构性冗余问题,实现优化分子合成。FragmentGPT支持可控、目标驱动的分子组装。在真实癌症数据集上的实验与消融研究证明其生成化学有效、高质量分子的能力,适用于下游药物发现任务。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Fragment-Based Drug Discovery (FBDD) is a popular approach in early drug development, but designing effective linkers to combine disconnected molecular fragments into chemically and pharmacologically viable candidates remains challenging. Further complexity arises when fragments contain structural redundancies, like duplicate rings, which cannot be addressed by simply adding or removing atoms or bonds. To address these challenges in a unified framework, we introduce FragmentGPT, which integrates two core components: (1) a novel chemically-aware, energy-based bond cleavage pre-training strategy that equips the GPT-based model with fragment growing, linking, and merging capabilities, and (2) a novel Reward Ranked Alignment with Expert Exploration (RAE) algorithm that combines expert imitation learning for diversity enhancement, data selection and augmentation for Pareto and composite score optimality, and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) to align the learner policy with multi-objective goals. Conditioned on fragment pairs, FragmentGPT generates linkers that connect diverse molecular subunits while simultaneously optimizing for multiple pharmaceutical goals. It also learns to resolve structural redundancies-such as duplicated fragments-through intelligent merging, enabling the synthesis of optimized molecules. FragmentGPT facilitates controlled, goal-driven molecular assembly. Experiments and ablation studies on real-world cancer datasets demonstrate its ability to generate chemically valid, high-quality molecules tailored for downstream drug discovery tasks.
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