Summary of Molecular Diffusion Models with Virtual Receptors, by Matan Halfon et al.
Molecular Diffusion Models with Virtual Receptors
by Matan Halfon, Eyal Rozenberg, Ehud Rivlin, Daniel Freedman
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Machine learning approaches to Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) have seen significant advancements over the past few years, particularly with diffusion-based methods. Our technique builds upon this diffusion approach by addressing two key challenges: the size disparity between drug molecules and receptors, which hampers learning and inference speed. We achieve this through the concept of Virtual Receptors, learned to preserve structural information while respecting group equivariance. Additionally, we incorporate protein language embeddings, originally used in protein folding tasks, to improve performance and accelerate computations. Our experimental results demonstrate the benefits of both virtual receptors and protein embeddings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Machine learning is helping scientists design new medicines by studying how molecules fit together. This approach, called Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD), has made great progress recently. We’ve developed a new method that makes SBDD even more powerful. First, we figured out a way to make the “target” molecule smaller and easier to work with. Then, we used special language tools to help our computer learn from this simplified target. Our tests show that this new approach works better and faster than previous methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Inference » Machine learning
