A compact review of molecular property prediction with graph neural networks.

Journal: Drug discovery today. Technologies
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Abstract

As graph neural networks are becoming more and more powerful and useful in the field of drug discovery, many pharmaceutical companies are getting interested in utilizing these methods for their own in-house frameworks. This is especially compelling for tasks such as the prediction of molecular properties which is often one of the most crucial tasks in computer-aided drug discovery workflows. The immense hype surrounding these kinds of algorithms has led to the development of many different types of promising architectures and in this review we try to structure this highly dynamic field of AI-research by collecting and classifying 80 GNNs that have been used to predict more than 20 molecular properties using 48 different datasets.

Authors

  • Oliver Wieder
    University of Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
  • Stefan Kohlbacher
    University of Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
  • Mélaine Kuenemann
    Servier Research Institute - CentEx Biotechnology, 125 Chemin de Ronde, 78290 Croissy-sur-Seine, France.
  • Arthur Garon
    University of Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
  • Pierre Ducrot
    University of Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
  • Thomas Seidel
    University of Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
  • Thierry Langer
    University of Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: thierry.langer@univie.ac.at.