A De Novo Molecular Generation Method Using Latent Vector Based Generative Adversarial Network [post]

Oleksii Prykhodko, Simon Johansson, Panagiotis-Christos Kotsias, Josep Arús-Pous, Esben Jannik Bjerrum, Ola Engkvist, Hongming Chen
2019 unpublished
<p> </p><p>Deep learning methods applied to drug discovery have been used to generate novel structures. In this study, we propose a new deep learning architecture, LatentGAN, which combines an autoencoder and a generative adversarial neural network for de novo molecular design. We applied the method in two scenarios: one to generate random drug-like compounds and another to generate target-biased compounds. Our results show that the method works well in both cases: sampled compounds from the
more » ... ined model can largely occupy the same chemical space as the training set and also generate a substantial fraction of novel compounds. Moreover, the drug-likeness score of compounds sampled from LatentGAN is also similar to that of the training set. Lastly, generated compounds differ from those obtained with a Recurrent Neural Network-based generative model approach, indicating that both methods can be used complementarily.</p><p> </p>
doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.8299544.v4 fatcat:y4kyy46sgfbyvhqs2ju3iwlfcq