Trends in Deep Learning for Property-driven Drug Design
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2021-11
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It is more pressing than ever to reduce the time and costs for the development of lead compounds in the pharmaceutical industry. The co-occurrence of advances in high-throughput screening and the rise of deep learning (DL) have enabled the development of large-scale multimodal predictive models for virtual drug screening. Recently, deep generative models have emerged as a powerful tool to explore the chemical space and raise hopes to expedite the drug discovery process. Following this progress in chemocentric approaches for generative chemistry, the next challenge is to build multimodal conditional generative models that leverage disparate knowledge sources when mapping biochemical properties to target structures. Here, we call the community to bridge drug discovery more closely with systems biology when designing deep generative models. Complementing the plethora of reviews on the role of DL in chemoinformatics, we specifically focus on the interface of predictive and generative modelling for drug discovery. Through a systematic publication keyword search on PubMed and a selection of preprint servers (arXiv, biorXiv, chemRxiv, and medRxiv), we quantify trends in the field and find that molecular graphs and VAEs have become the most widely adopted molecular representations and architectures in generative models, respectively. We discuss progress on DL for toxicity, drug-target affinity, and drug sensitivity prediction and specifically focus on conditional molecular generative models that encompass multimodal prediction models. Moreover, we outline future prospects in the field and identify challenges such as the integration of deep learning systems into experimental workflows in a closed-loop manner or the adoption of federated machine learning techniques to overcome data sharing barriers. Other challenges include, but are not limited to interpretability in generative models, more sophisticated metrics for the evaluation of molecular generative models, and, following up on that, community -accepted benchmarks for both multimodal drug property prediction and property-driven molecular design.
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28 (38)
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7862 - 7886
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Bentham Science Publishers
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Deep learning; drug discovery; generative models; review; QSAR modelling; Machine learning; drug design