JT-VAE Generative Modeling (JAEGER) is a deep generative approach for small-molecule design. JAEGER is based on the Junction-Tree Variational Auto-Encoder (JT-VAE) method [1], which ensures chemical validity for the generated molecules.

JAEGER is trained on existing molecules associated with activity values measured in a given assay. During training, JAEGER learns how to map each molecule onto a (high-dimensional) coordinate space, often referred to as the latent space. JAEGER also learns how to decode a coordinate position in the latent space back to a molecule.

To generate new molecules, JAEGER defines numerical search strategies to efficiently and effectively explore that latent space. JAEGER couples the exploration of that latent space together with activity predictive models to discover and optimize novel active molecules.

[1] Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay, Tommi S. Jaakkola: Junction Tree Variational Autoencoder for Molecular Graph Generation. ICML 2018: 2328-2337

• src: Python source code for JAEGER
• models: Data for building demo model

We have tested JAEGER on machines with the following GPUs:

• NVIDIA Tesla K80
• NVIDIA Tesla V100

We have tested JAEGER on machines with the following systems:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• CentOS Linux 7

• python 3.8.6
• pandas 1.1.5
• numpy 1.19.5
• pyjanitor 0.20.10
• pytorch 1.7.0
• rdkit 2020.09.3
• scikit-learn 0.24.0
• streamlit 0.74.1

• Install the python libraries mentioned in Software dependencies above into your python environment.

• Get the jaeger branch from the JT-VAE JAEGER fork located here. Include the icml18-jtnn and the icml18-jtnn/jtnn directories in your python path.

• Get a copy of the JAEGER repo (this repo). Include the src directory in your python path

Installation time of the software dependencies will vary depending on your computational environment. The larger packages like pytorch can take a couple of hours.

We include a demo dataset with all molecules with measured 3D7 inhibition activity from the Deposited Set 2: Novartis GNF Whole Cell Dataset hosted at the ChEMBL - Neglected Tropical Disease archive. The demo dataset is located at ./models/training_data/Novartis_GNF.csv.

See TRAINING.md

See GENCHEM.md

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Please cite the code as follows:

Godinez, W. J. & Ma, E. J. Novartis/JAEGER: Public. Zenodo, doi:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5794429 (2021).