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Main Authors: Eckmann, Peter, Wu, Dongxia, Heinzelmann, Germano, Gilson, Michael K., Yu, Rose
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11226
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author Eckmann, Peter
Wu, Dongxia
Heinzelmann, Germano
Gilson, Michael K.
Yu, Rose
author_facet Eckmann, Peter
Wu, Dongxia
Heinzelmann, Germano
Gilson, Michael K.
Yu, Rose
contents Current generative models for drug discovery primarily use molecular docking as an oracle to guide the generation of active compounds. However, such models are often not useful in practice because even compounds with high docking scores do not consistently show real-world experimental activity. More accurate methods for activity prediction exist, such as molecular dynamics based binding free energy calculations, but they are too computationally expensive to use in a generative model. To address this challenge, we propose Multi-Fidelity Latent space Active Learning (MF-LAL), a generative modeling framework that integrates a set of oracles with varying cost-accuracy tradeoffs. Using active learning, we train a surrogate model for each oracle and use these surrogates to guide generation of compounds with high predicted activity. Unlike previous approaches that separately learn the surrogate model and generative model, MF-LAL combines the generative and multi-fidelity surrogate models into a single framework, allowing for more accurate activity prediction and higher quality samples. Our experiments on two disease-relevant proteins show that MF-LAL produces compounds with significantly better binding free energy scores than other single and multi-fidelity approaches (~50% improvement in mean binding free energy score). The code is available at https://github.com/Rose-STL-Lab/MF-LAL.
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spellingShingle MF-LAL: Drug Compound Generation Using Multi-Fidelity Latent Space Active Learning
Eckmann, Peter
Wu, Dongxia
Heinzelmann, Germano
Gilson, Michael K.
Yu, Rose
Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
Current generative models for drug discovery primarily use molecular docking as an oracle to guide the generation of active compounds. However, such models are often not useful in practice because even compounds with high docking scores do not consistently show real-world experimental activity. More accurate methods for activity prediction exist, such as molecular dynamics based binding free energy calculations, but they are too computationally expensive to use in a generative model. To address this challenge, we propose Multi-Fidelity Latent space Active Learning (MF-LAL), a generative modeling framework that integrates a set of oracles with varying cost-accuracy tradeoffs. Using active learning, we train a surrogate model for each oracle and use these surrogates to guide generation of compounds with high predicted activity. Unlike previous approaches that separately learn the surrogate model and generative model, MF-LAL combines the generative and multi-fidelity surrogate models into a single framework, allowing for more accurate activity prediction and higher quality samples. Our experiments on two disease-relevant proteins show that MF-LAL produces compounds with significantly better binding free energy scores than other single and multi-fidelity approaches (~50% improvement in mean binding free energy score). The code is available at https://github.com/Rose-STL-Lab/MF-LAL.
title MF-LAL: Drug Compound Generation Using Multi-Fidelity Latent Space Active Learning
topic Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11226