AI团队自主设计抗癌药分子,生成5231个全新结构。
Rhizome OS-1: Rhizome's Semi-Autonomous Operating System for Small Molecule Drug Discovery

- 多模态AI代理模拟化学家,自动完成筛选、设计与专利评估。
- 生成分子91.9%未在数据库中出现,相似度达0.56-0.69,预测准确率高。
- 适合药物研发团队快速探索新分子,尤其擅长靶点导向逆向设计。
我们提出Rhizome OS-1,一个用于小分子药物发现的半自主操作系统,由多模态AI代理组成,模拟计算化学家、药物化学家和专利分析员角色。这些代理可编写并执行分析代码(指纹聚类、R基团分解、子结构搜索),利用视觉能力对分子网格进行可视化筛选,制定三级药物化学假设,评估专利自由实施性,并根据实验反馈动态调整生成策略。系统基于r1模型——一个在8亿个分子图上训练的246M参数图扩散模型,通过片段掩码、骨架修饰、连接子设计和图编辑原语直接在分子图上生成新化学实体。在两个肿瘤学项目(BCL6 BTB域和EZH2 SET域)中,该系统执行了26个种子任务,生成5,231个全新分子。两个靶点中,91.9%的Murcko骨架未出现在ChEMBL数据库中,与最近已知活性分子的中位Tanimoto相似度为0.56–0.69。Boltz-2结合亲和力预测经ChEMBL数据校准后,斯皮尔曼相关系数为-0.53至-0.64,ROC AUC值达0.88–0.93。结果表明,配备图原生生成工具和物理信息评分机制的半自主代理系统,可实现规模化、快速且自适应的早期药物发现逆向设计新范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We present Rhizome OS-1, a semi-autonomous operating system for small molecule drug discovery in which multi-modal AI agents operate as a full multidisciplinary discovery team. These agents function as computational chemists, medicinal chemists, and patent agents: they write and execute analysis code (fingerprint clustering, R-group decomposition, substructure search), visually triage molecular grids using vision capabilities, formulate explicit medicinal chemistry hypotheses across three strategy tiers, assess patent freedom-to-operate, and dynamically adapt generation strategies based on empirical screening feedback. Powered by r1 - a 246M-parameter graph diffusion model trained on 800 million molecular graphs - the system generates novel chemical matter directly on molecular graphs using fragment masking, scaffold decoration, linker design, and graph editing primitives. In two oncology campaigns (BCL6 BTB domain and EZH2 SET domain), the agent team executed 26 seeds and produced 5,231 novel molecules. Across both targets, 91.9% of generated Murcko scaffolds are absent from ChEMBL, with median Tanimoto similarity of 0.56-0.69 to the nearest known active. Boltz-2 binding affinity predictions, calibrated against ChEMBL data, achieved Spearman correlations of -0.53 to -0.64 and ROC AUC values of 0.88-0.93. These results demonstrate that semi-autonomous agent systems, equipped with graph-native generative tools and physics-informed scoring, enable a new paradigm for early-stage drug discovery: scaled, rapid, and adaptive inverse design with embedded medicinal chemistry reasoning.
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