Summary of Diff4vs: Hiv-inhibiting Molecules Generation with Classifier Guidance Diffusion For Virtual Screening, by Jiaqing Lyu and Changjie Chen and Bing Liang and Yijia Zhang
Diff4VS: HIV-inhibiting Molecules Generation with Classifier Guidance Diffusion for Virtual Screening
by Jiaqing Lyu, Changjie Chen, Bing Liang, Yijia Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel approach to identifying potential HIV-inhibiting molecules using a combined Classifier Guidance Diffusion (Diff4VS) model and ligand-based virtual screening strategy. The proposed method leverages an extra classifier trained on the HIV molecule dataset to guide the diffusion process, yielding more candidate HIV-inhibiting molecules than existing methods. Additionally, the authors introduce a new metric called DrugIndex, which evaluates the proportion of candidate drug molecules generated by evolving molecular generative models from a pharmaceutical perspective. The study also reveals a phenomenon known as Degradation in molecule generation, where generated molecules have a lower proportion of high similarity to known drug molecules compared to real molecules. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us find new medicines that can stop HIV from spreading. It combines two special tools: a Classifier Guidance Diffusion model and ligand-based virtual screening. This combination lets the model generate many more potential HIV-inhibiting molecules than other methods do. The authors also come up with a new way to measure how well these models work, called DrugIndex. They find that generated molecules are not as good at mimicking real medicines as you might think. This could be because it’s hard for machines to create molecules with the right structure. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Diffusion model
