SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING POTENTIAL INHIBITORS OF TARGET PROTEIN

    公开(公告)号:EP3968333A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-16

    申请号:EP20217644.2

    申请日:2020-12-29

    IPC分类号: G16B15/30 G16B40/20

    摘要: Conventionally, deep learning-based methods have shown some success in ligand-based drug design. However, these methods face data scarcity problems while designing drugs against novel targets. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods that leverage the potential of deep learning and molecular modeling approaches to develop a drug design pipeline, which can be useful for cases where there is limited or no availability of target-specific ligand datasets. Inhibitors of other proteins, structurally similar to the target protein are screened at the active site of the target protein to create an initial target-specific dataset. Transfer learning is implemented to learn features of target-specific dataset and design new chemical entities/molecules using a deep generative model. A deep predictive model is used predict docking scores of newly designed/identified molecules. Both these models are then combined using reinforcement learning to design new chemical entities with optimized docking score.