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ECloudGen: leveraging electron clouds as a latent variable to scale up structure-based molecular design

Odin Zhang Jieyu Jin Zhenxing Wu Jintu Zhang Po Yuan Yuntao Yu Haitao Lin Haiyang Zhong Xujun Zhang Chenqing Hua Wei-Bo Zhao Zheng-Shuo Zhang Kejun Ying Yu-Fei Huang Huifeng Zhao Yu Kang P. Pan Ji-Ke Wang Dong Guo Shuangjia Zheng Chang-Yu Hsieh Tingjun Hou
Oct 2025 · Nature Computational Science · Vol 5, pp. 1017 - 1028 · 4 citations · 58 references
Computer Science Medicine

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This study presents ECloudGen, which uses latent diffusion to generate electron clouds from protein pockets and decodes them into molecules, and adopts two-stage training, which expands the chemical space accessible to generative drug design.

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