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Generating 3D Molecules for Target Protein Binding
Meng Liu · Youzhi Luo · Kanji Uchino · Koji Maruhashi · Shuiwang Ji

Wed Jul 20 10:50 AM -- 11:10 AM (PDT) @ Ballroom 1 & 2
in Deep Learning/APP:Computer Vision »

A fundamental problem in drug discovery is to design molecules that bind to specific proteins. To tackle this problem using machine learning methods, here we propose a novel and effective framework, known as GraphBP, to generate 3D molecules that bind to given proteins by placing atoms of specific types and locations to the given binding site one by one. In particular, at each step, we first employ a 3D graph neural network to obtain geometry-aware and chemically informative representations from the intermediate contextual information. Such context includes the given binding site and atoms placed in the previous steps. Second, to preserve the desirable equivariance property, we select a local reference atom according to the designed auxiliary classifiers and then construct a local spherical coordinate system. Finally, to place a new atom, we generate its atom type and relative location w.r.t. the constructed local coordinate system via a flow model. We also consider generating the variables of interest sequentially to capture the underlying dependencies among them. Experiments demonstrate that our GraphBP is effective to generate 3D molecules with binding ability to target protein binding sites. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/divelab/GraphBP.

Keywords: APP: Chemistry and Drug Discovery · APP: Health · Deep Learning · DL: Algorithms · DL: Generative Models and Autoencoders · DL: Graph Neural Networks

Author Information

Meng Liu (Texas A&M University)
Youzhi Luo (Texas A&M University)
Kanji Uchino (FUJITSU Research OF AMERICA, INC.)
Koji Maruhashi (Fujitsu Research, Fujitsu Limited)
Shuiwang Ji (Texas A&M University)

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