BInD: Bond and Interaction-generating Diffusion Model for Multi-objective Structure-based Drug Design

TL;DR

BInD is a diffusion model that co-generates molecules and their interactions with target proteins, balancing multiple objectives in structure-based drug design and outperforming existing methods.

Contribution

It introduces a knowledge-guided diffusion model for simultaneous molecule and interaction generation, addressing multi-objective optimization in SBDD.

Findings

Achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple objectives.

Effectively balances target interactions, molecular properties, and geometry.

Enables targeted molecule optimization through NCI-driven design.

Abstract

Recent remarkable advancements in geometric deep generative models, coupled with accumulated structural data, enable structure-based drug design (SBDD) using only target protein information. However, existing models often struggle to balance multiple objectives, excelling only in specific tasks. BInD, a diffusion model with knowledge-based guidance, is introduced to address this limitation by co-generating molecules and their interactions with a target protein. This approach ensures balanced consideration of key objectives, including target-specific interactions, molecular properties, and local geometry. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that BInD achieves robust performance across all objectives, matching or surpassing state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, an NCI-driven molecule design and optimization method is proposed, enabling the enhancement of target binding and specificity by elaborating the adequate interaction patterns.