LIDDIA: Language-based Intelligent Drug Discovery Agent

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Main Authors: Averly, Reza, Baker, Frazier N., Watson, Ian A., Ning, Xia
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Published: 2025
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author Averly, Reza
Baker, Frazier N.
Watson, Ian A.
Ning, Xia
author_facet Averly, Reza
Baker, Frazier N.
Watson, Ian A.
Ning, Xia
contents Drug discovery is a long, expensive, and complex process, relying heavily on human medicinal chemists, who can spend years searching the vast space of potential therapies. Recent advances in artificial intelligence for chemistry have sought to expedite individual drug discovery tasks; however, there remains a critical need for an intelligent agent that can navigate the drug discovery process. Towards this end, we introduce LIDDIA, an autonomous agent capable of intelligently navigating the drug discovery process in silico. By leveraging the reasoning capabilities of large language models, LIDDIA serves as a low-cost and highly-adaptable tool for autonomous drug discovery. We comprehensively examine LIDDIA , demonstrating that (1) it can generate molecules meeting key pharmaceutical criteria on over 70% of 30 clinically relevant targets, (2) it intelligently balances exploration and exploitation in the chemical space, and (3) it identifies one promising novel candidate on AR/NR3C4, a critical target for both prostate and breast cancers. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/ninglab/LIDDiA
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spellingShingle LIDDIA: Language-based Intelligent Drug Discovery Agent
Averly, Reza
Baker, Frazier N.
Watson, Ian A.
Ning, Xia
Computation and Language
Drug discovery is a long, expensive, and complex process, relying heavily on human medicinal chemists, who can spend years searching the vast space of potential therapies. Recent advances in artificial intelligence for chemistry have sought to expedite individual drug discovery tasks; however, there remains a critical need for an intelligent agent that can navigate the drug discovery process. Towards this end, we introduce LIDDIA, an autonomous agent capable of intelligently navigating the drug discovery process in silico. By leveraging the reasoning capabilities of large language models, LIDDIA serves as a low-cost and highly-adaptable tool for autonomous drug discovery. We comprehensively examine LIDDIA , demonstrating that (1) it can generate molecules meeting key pharmaceutical criteria on over 70% of 30 clinically relevant targets, (2) it intelligently balances exploration and exploitation in the chemical space, and (3) it identifies one promising novel candidate on AR/NR3C4, a critical target for both prostate and breast cancers. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/ninglab/LIDDiA
title LIDDIA: Language-based Intelligent Drug Discovery Agent
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13959