arXiv:2606. 01220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating molecules that simultaneously satisfy drug-like properties and conform to the 3D structure of a target protein is a core challenge in structure-based drug design (SBDD).
By Guang Lin, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu
arXiv:2608. 01007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dual-target drug design aims to generate 3D molecules that can simultaneously interact with two target proteins, offering a promising route for discovering polypharmacological compounds against complex diseases.
By Jingyuan Zhou, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu
arXiv:2607. 02834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular optimization often starts from a pretrained generative model that captures a broad prior over valid molecular structures.
By Trevor Chen, Ariel Dai, Jason Yang, Riccardo De Santi, Daniel Khalil, Wenda Chu, Nate Gruver, Pranav Murugan, Alexander F. G. Goldberg, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Yisong Yue
arXiv:2509. 26405v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce InVirtuoGen, a discrete flow generative model for fragmented SMILES for de novo and fragment-constrained generation, and target-property/lead optimization of small molecules.
By Benno Kaech, Luis Wyss, Karsten Borgwardt, Gianvito Grasso
FuseDiff is an end‑to‑end diffusion model designed for dual‑target structure‑based drug design, jointly generating a ligand graph and two pocket‑specific binding poses conditioned on both target pockets. It employs a message‑passing backbone with Dual‑target Local Context Fusion (DLCF) to fuse ligand atom contexts from both pockets, preserving symmetry while enabling expressive joint modeling. The model enforces topological consistency across the two poses and allows target‑specific geometric adaptation, achieving state‑of‑the‑art docking performance and enabling systematic assessment of dual‑target pose quality before docking‑based pose search.
By Jianliang Wu, Anjie Qiao, Zhen Wang, Zhewei Wei, Sheng Chen
arXiv:2609.00189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Goal-directed optimization is essential for steering molecular generators to propose candidates with desired properties. However, it is often implement...
By Shiyun Wa, Yifei Wang, Anna G. Green, Simone Sciabola, Ye Wang
arXiv:2606. 01461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing effective anticancer therapeutics remains challenging due to tumor heterogeneity and the absence of well-defined molecular targets across cancer subtypes.
By Brenda Nogueira, Gisela A. Gonzalez-Montiel, Nitesh V. Chawla, Nuno Moniz
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
arXiv:2608. 19808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cyclic peptides are emerging as promising molecular scaffolds in drug discovery due to their high binding affinity and structural stability.
By Guofeng Zhang, Rong Han, Xiaoyu Wang, Zhiyun Li, Zongbo Han, Xiaohong Liu, Guangyu Wang
arXiv:2607. 12488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular optimization in drug discovery, materials design, and catalysis requires searching vast chemical spaces under tight evaluation budgets, since high-fidelity oracles and experimental measurements are costly.
By Sarina Kopf, Cristina Nevado, Philippe Schwaller
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
The paper introduces a method for specificity‑aware diffusion steering that suppresses undesired samples while preserving desired ones. By formulating the problem as a target‑design task, it derives a time‑dependent target distribution based on overlap between positive and negative reference distributions, and samples from it using a variance‑reduced Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) sampler. Experiments on synthetic, class‑contrastive, text‑to‑image, and peptide‑MHC tasks demonstrate reduced mode shift, improved sampling stability, and better suppression of undesired regions compared to negative‑guidance baselines.
By Luran Wang, Linrui Ma, Hannes St\"ark, Regina Barzilay