arXiv AI

Do Language Models Dream of Binding Molecules? Benchmarking LLMs under Spatial Constraints

arXiv:2607. 18144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structure-based drug design (SBDD) leverages the 3D structure of protein targets, often complemented by other spatial constraints, to generate candidate binding molecules.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

SynLaD: Latent Diffusion for Generating Synthesizable Molecules Conditioned on 3D Pharmacophore Profiles

arXiv:2607. 01105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SynLaD, a latent diffusion framework for small-molecule generation that unifies ligand-based drug design objectives (what to make) with synthetic accessibility (how to make it).

By Miruna Cretu, John Bradshaw, Patricia Suriana, Saeed Saremi, Omar Mahmood, Kirill Shmilovich, Kangway Chuang, Vishnu Sresht, Colin Grambow
arXiv AI
Jun 8

ShallowBench: Benchmarking Generative Drug Design Models on Shallow-Pocket Targets

arXiv:2606. 06717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While generative AI models have demonstrated remarkable success in structure-based drug design, they predominantly rely on deep binding pockets and struggle to sample effective ligands for challenging low-pocketability targets, such as the historically "undruggable" oncology targets KRAS and MYC.

By Saket Reddy, Shiwei Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Generating Developable 3D Molecules via Pocket-Conditioned Diffusion and Property-Aware Optimization

arXiv:2607. 12349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drug discovery and development is time-consuming and resource-intensive, motivating computational approaches such as diffusion models for de novo drug design.

By Ruoxi Gao, Jiangweizhi Peng, Ziqi Chen, Frazier N. Baker, David C. Kombo, John L. Kane Jr., Andrew A. Scholte, Yi Li, Matthew J. LaMarche, Luigi I. Iconaru, Hans-Peter Biemann, Mingyi Hong, Xia Ning
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Beyond SBDD: Geometric Deep Learning in Polypharmacology and Multi-target Drug Design

arXiv:2607. 20550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The traditional "one drug, one target" paradigm of structure-based drug design (SBDD) frequently proves inadequate for treating multifactorial diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, owing to compensatory signaling pathways and the emergence of drug resistance.

By Tianming Han, Zhijie Pan, Wenchi Ge, Qi Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 13

Autoregressive latent diffusion for 3D molecule generation

arXiv:2607. 09277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) molecule generation has been dominated by diffusion models, which achieve strong generation quality but typically require the molecular size to be specified a priori.

By Federico Ottomano, Gaopeng Ren, Yingzhen Li, Kim E. Jelfs, Alex M. Ganose
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Probe Before You Edit: Probing-Guided Molecular Optimization for LLM Agents in Structure-Based Drug Design

arXiv:2606. 00555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structure-based drug design increasingly employs LLM agents to iteratively refine ligands against a target pocket, yet a viable ligand must satisfy two often-conflicting objectives -- binding affinity and druggability -- which single optimization steps rarely improve together.

By Zaifei Yang, Weiyu Chen, Yaqing Wang, James Kwok