DiffMS: Diffusion Generation of Molecules Conditioned on Mass Spectra

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Hauptverfasser: Bohde, Montgomery, Manjrekar, Mrunali, Wang, Runzhong, Ji, Shuiwang, Coley, Connor W.
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author Bohde, Montgomery
Manjrekar, Mrunali
Wang, Runzhong
Ji, Shuiwang
Coley, Connor W.
author_facet Bohde, Montgomery
Manjrekar, Mrunali
Wang, Runzhong
Ji, Shuiwang
Coley, Connor W.
contents Mass spectrometry plays a fundamental role in elucidating the structures of unknown molecules and subsequent scientific discoveries. One formulation of the structure elucidation task is the conditional de novo generation of molecular structure given a mass spectrum. Toward a more accurate and efficient scientific discovery pipeline for small molecules, we present DiffMS, a formula-restricted encoder-decoder generative network that achieves state-of-the-art performance on this task. The encoder utilizes a transformer architecture and models mass spectra domain knowledge such as peak formulae and neutral losses, and the decoder is a discrete graph diffusion model restricted by the heavy-atom composition of a known chemical formula. To develop a robust decoder that bridges latent embeddings and molecular structures, we pretrain the diffusion decoder with fingerprint-structure pairs, which are available in virtually infinite quantities, compared to structure-spectrum pairs that number in the tens of thousands. Extensive experiments on established benchmarks show that DiffMS outperforms existing models on de novo molecule generation. We provide several ablations to demonstrate the effectiveness of our diffusion and pretraining approaches and show consistent performance scaling with increasing pretraining dataset size. DiffMS code is publicly available at https://github.com/coleygroup/DiffMS.
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spellingShingle DiffMS: Diffusion Generation of Molecules Conditioned on Mass Spectra
Bohde, Montgomery
Manjrekar, Mrunali
Wang, Runzhong
Ji, Shuiwang
Coley, Connor W.
Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
Mass spectrometry plays a fundamental role in elucidating the structures of unknown molecules and subsequent scientific discoveries. One formulation of the structure elucidation task is the conditional de novo generation of molecular structure given a mass spectrum. Toward a more accurate and efficient scientific discovery pipeline for small molecules, we present DiffMS, a formula-restricted encoder-decoder generative network that achieves state-of-the-art performance on this task. The encoder utilizes a transformer architecture and models mass spectra domain knowledge such as peak formulae and neutral losses, and the decoder is a discrete graph diffusion model restricted by the heavy-atom composition of a known chemical formula. To develop a robust decoder that bridges latent embeddings and molecular structures, we pretrain the diffusion decoder with fingerprint-structure pairs, which are available in virtually infinite quantities, compared to structure-spectrum pairs that number in the tens of thousands. Extensive experiments on established benchmarks show that DiffMS outperforms existing models on de novo molecule generation. We provide several ablations to demonstrate the effectiveness of our diffusion and pretraining approaches and show consistent performance scaling with increasing pretraining dataset size. DiffMS code is publicly available at https://github.com/coleygroup/DiffMS.
title DiffMS: Diffusion Generation of Molecules Conditioned on Mass Spectra
topic Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09571