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. 2022 Jun 1;13(7):1016–1029. doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.1c00662

Table 5. Leading Cutting-Edge AI/ML-Based Computer-Aided Synthetic Prediction (CASP) Organizations Providing Innovation in Drug Discovery.

vendor application main function Web site
ChemPass ChemPass rule-based AI for forward reaction-based design https://chempassltd.com/
 
DeepMatter ICSynth ML-based method to generate chemistry rules https://www.deepmatter.io/products/icsynth/
 
Sigma-Aldrich/Merck KGaA SYNTHIA (previously known as Chematica) algorithms using a database of manually generated rules https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/services/software-and-digital-platforms/synthia-retrosynthesis-software?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI94G7_Zqn8gIVE73ICh1yrQjqEAAYASAAEgJZxfD_BwE
 
IBM IBM RXN natural language-based model on reaction data sets https://www.research.ibm.com/blog/rxn-cleaning-chemical-datasets
 
CAS ChemPlanner (previously known as ARChem) method-based or rule-based as well as ML algorithms https://www.cas.org/solutions/cas-scifinder-discovery-platform/cas-scifinder/retrosynthesis-planning
 
Elsevier Reaxys algorithms using a database of manually generated rules https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/reaxys
 
AstraZeneca AiZynthFinder open-source MonteCarlo tree-based search using ANN https://github.com/MolecularAI/aizynthfinder
 
Eli Lilly Co. LillyMol ML-based method using model trained on reaction transformations https://github.com/EliLillyCo/LillyMol
 
MIT Consortia ASKCOS a multifaceted AI/ML-based retrosynthetic analysis tool developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://askcos.mit.edu/help/modules
 
Iktos Spaya.ai AI-fueled tool to discover and prioritize synthetic routes https://iktos.ai/spaya/
 
University of Notre Dame C-CAS provides synthetic chemistry prediction using quantitative, data-driven approaches https://ccas.nd.edu/research/#thrust-3