arXiv AI By Jiahao Chen, Letian Gao, Yanhao Zhu, Wenbiao Zhou, Bing Su, Zhi John Lu, Bo Huang

From Holo Pockets to Electron Density: GPT-style Drug Design with Density

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arXiv:2605. 08767v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in generative modeling have enabled significant progress in structure-based drug design (SBDD).

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