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Mar '20

jcatapang

Can anyone share on this thread any similar attempts to this submission? We used deep learning (autoencoders) to generate our drug designs.

Mar '20

jcatapang

I’m just really excited to see how deep learning fares compared to drug designs of actual drug discovery professionals that use existing software applications. Cheers!

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Mar '20 ▶ jcatapang

pgz

Hello,
your design JAS-UNI-326-3 contains an N,O-acetal which might be chemically unstable.

Best
Paul

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Mar '20 ▶ pgz

jcatapang

Thank you for your observation. Additionally, we actually have seven drugs but I only submitted the ones for the Mpro (3 drugs). The other drugs are ACE2 receptor blockers, which are found in the paper.

Mar '20

stentor

Sadly, all three proposed molecules are likely to be chemically unstable

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Mar '20 ▶ stentor

pgz

First one looks ok apart from the misplaced double bond (might be some form of submission mistake). Second one looks “exotic” to me.

Mar '20

Zhang-He

@pgz Regarding your point on the misplaced double bond, is it possible that this arises because @jcatapang’s team used deep learning to generate the drug designs?

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Mar '20 ▶ Zhang-He

jcatapang

@Zhang-He, you are correct. We can’t control that behavior as the deep learning algorithm is the one that designs all the structures. It can be part of our future work to try and incorporate these rules into the algorithm somehow, so that the designs would conform to what’s stabler. As of the moment, the code doesn’t take into account stability. Apologies.

Apr '20

jcatapang

Speaking of AI-generated drugs, you guys might want to check out IBM’s exploration tool. COVID-19 Bluemix It includes drug attributes like Target Affinity (AFF), Drug-likeliness (QED), Synthetic Accessibility (SA), Solubility (LogP), Novelty (NOV), Selectivity (SEL), Toxicity (TOX), and Molecular Weight (MolW).

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Jun '20 ▶ jcatapang

Zhang-He

Thanks for this @jcatapang. This is amazing!

Jun '20

jcatapang

Just here to share. This AI-based research for COVID Moonshot has also birthed a new commercial software I’ve developed. Deep Drug Search has four main components: ligand generation via deep learning, ligand-protein docking, ADME-Tox prediction via machine learning, and a molecular viewer. Cheers :slightly_smiling_face: