用潜在空间扩散模型精准编辑分子,同时保持结构相似性。
PhAME: Phenotype-Aware Molecular Editing via Latent Diffusion

- 在预训练图VAE的潜在空间中进行分子编辑
- 双尺度无分类器引导,平衡表型与结构相似性
- 适合需兼顾生物表型与化学可行性的药物设计
小分子药物发现需同时优化候选分子的多种属性。这些属性可通过高维生物特征(如细胞形态和转录扰动)分析获得,提供对潜在生物学机制的丰富视角。然而,现有生成方法在利用这些特征进行优化时,无法同时满足两个关键需求:精确引导至期望的表型特征,同时保持与已知先导分子的结构相近。我们提出PhAME(表型感知分子编辑),一种基于预训练图自编码器潜在空间的扩散框架。核心贡献是采用组合式无分类器引导机制,包含两个独立尺度:一个用于表型条件,一个用于与种子结构的相似性,使从业者可灵活控制两者之间的权衡。在多种基准测试中的实证评估,包括对接分数优化和多模态表型生成,均表明PhAME达到当前最优性能,同时保持高化学有效性与新颖性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Small-molecule drug discovery requires simultaneous optimization of numerous properties of candidate molecules. These properties can be investigated through the analysis of high-dimensional biological signatures, such as cell morphology and transcriptomic perturbations, which provide a rich perspective on the underlying biological mechanisms. However, existing generative methods, which use those signatures for optimization, fail to meet two key requirements: providing precise guidance toward desired phenotypic signatures while maintaining structural proximity to a known hit. We introduce PhAME (Phenotype-Aware Molecular Editing), a latent diffusion framework that overcomes this challenge by recasting molecular optimization as editing in the latent space of a pretrained graph-based VAE. Our central contribution is a compositional classifier-free guidance scheme with two independent scales, one for the phenotype-conditioning and one for similarity to the seed structure, allowing practitioners to control the tradeoff between these two objectives. Empirical evaluations across diverse benchmarks, including docking score optimization and multimodal phenotypic generation, demonstrate that PhAME achieves state-of-the-art results while maintaining high chemical validity and novelty.
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