articleJournal of Medicinal ChemistryAug 13, 2019Closed access

Pushing the Boundaries of Molecular Representation for Drug Discovery with the Graph Attention Mechanism

Chinese Academy of Sciences · ShanghaiTech University · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

Hunting for chemicals with favorable pharmacological, toxicological, and pharmacokinetic properties remains a formidable challenge for drug discovery. Deep learning provides us with powerful tools to build predictive models that are appropriate for the rising amounts of data, but the gap between what these neural networks learn and what human beings can comprehend is growing. Moreover, this gap may induce distrust and restrict deep learning applications in practice. Here, we introduce a new graph neural network architecture called Attentive FP for molecular representation that uses a graph attention mechanism to learn from relevant drug discovery data sets. We demonstrate that Attentive FP achieves…

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