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. 2024 Mar 14;64(6):1794–1805. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00247

Table 3. Recent Structure-Based Deep Learning De Novo Drug Design Approaches.

Method Ligand Representation Molecular Generation Validation (method; target)
DiffSBDD(54) 3D coordinates Diffusion In silico docking; 100 proteins from CrossDocked2020 and 130 complexes from Binding MOAD
RELATION(55) 3D property grids VAE/AAE In silico docking; protein kinase B alpha, CDK2
Ragoza et al.(56) 3D property grids VAE In silico docking; 10 random proteins from CrossDocked2020 Mutation study, Shikimate kinase
DeepLigBuilder(57) 3D coordinates MPNN In silico docking; SARS-CoV-2 Mpro
SBMolGen(58) SMILES RNN In silico FMO and MD; CDK2, EGFR, AA2AR, ADRB2
MolAICal(59) SMILES/graphs Sequence-based/GNN In silico MD; glucagon receptor, SARS-CoV-2 Mpro
Xu et al.(60) SMILES RNN In silico docking; mitogen-activated protein kinase 14
DEVELOP(61) Graphs GNN, CNN In silico docking; menin-MLL
LiGANN(62) 3D property grids BicycleGAN In silico docking; delta opioid 7TM receptor, CHK1, TNNI3K, and IRAK-4 kinase
Armstrong et al.(63) Graphs GCN, VAE In silico docking; protein–ligand complexes from scPDB
Grechishnikova etal.(64) SMILES Transformer In silico docking; Insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor, VEGFR2
cMolGPT(65) SMILES Transformer In silico QSAR prediction; EGFR, HTR1A, S1PR1
Luo et al.(66) 3D coordinates GNN In silico Docking; 100 proteins from CrossDocked2020