OPTIMIZING MOLECULE TOXICITY BY REPLACING TARGET FRAGMENTS WITH BIOISOSTERES

原文（中文）

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for predicting toxicity of molecules. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining data identifying: (i) an input molecule, and (ii) a target molecule fragment; determining, for each candidate molecule fragment in a database of candidate molecule fragments, a respective similarity measure between: (i) an embedding of the target molecule fragment, and (ii) an embedding of the candidate molecule fragment; selecting a plurality of candidate molecule fragments for inclusion in a set of alternative molecule fragments based on the similarity measures; and generating data defining a plurality of modified molecules, wherein each modified molecule is a modified version of the input molecule where the target molecule fragment is replaced by a respective alternative molecule fragment from the set of alternative molecule fragments; and generating a respective toxicity prediction for each of the plurality of modified molecules.