Data‐driven approaches for identifying hyperparameters in multi‐step retrosynthesis

AM Westerlund, B Barge, L Mervin… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The multi‐step retrosynthesis problem can be solved by a search algorithm, such as Monte
Carlo tree search (MCTS). The performance of multistep retrosynthesis, as measured by a …

Evolutionary retrosynthetic route planning

Y Zhang, H Hao, X He, S Gao, A Zhou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05186, 2023 - arxiv.org
Molecular retrosynthesis is a significant and complex problem in the field of chemistry,
however, traditional manual synthesis methods not only need well-trained experts but also …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient retrosynthetic planning with MCTS exploration enhanced A* search

D Zhao, S Tu, L Xu - Communications Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Retrosynthetic planning, which aims to identify synthetic pathways for target molecules from
starting materials, is a fundamental problem in synthetic chemistry. Computer-aided …

Comparing search algorithms on the retrosynthesis problem

M Roucairol, T Cazenave - Molecular Informatics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this article we try different algorithms, namely Nested Monte Carlo Search and Greedy
Best First Search, on AstraZeneca's open source retrosynthetic tool: AiZynthFinder. We …

[HTML][HTML] PaRoutes: towards a framework for benchmarking retrosynthesis route predictions

S Genheden, E Bjerrum - Digital Discovery, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We introduce a framework for benchmarking multi-step retrosynthesis methods, ie route
predictions, called PaRoutes. The framework consists of two sets of 10 000 synthetic routes …

Towards" alphachem": Chemical synthesis planning with tree search and deep neural network policies

M Segler, M Preuß, MP Waller - 2017 - openreview.net
Retrosynthesis is a technique to plan the chemical synthesis of organic molecules, for
example drugs, agro-and fine chemicals. In retrosynthesis, a search tree is built by analysing …

Bayesian algorithm for retrosynthesis

Z Guo, S Wu, M Ohno, R Yoshida - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The identification of synthetic routes that end with the desired product is considered an
inherently time-consuming process that is largely dependent on expert knowledge regarding …

Computer-assisted retrosynthesis based on molecular similarity

CW Coley, L Rogers, WH Green… - ACS central science, 2017 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate molecular similarity to be a surprisingly effective metric for proposing and
ranking one-step retrosynthetic disconnections based on analogy to precedent reactions …

Chemistry-informed molecular graph as reaction descriptor for machine-learned retrosynthesis planning

B Zhang, X Zhang, W Du, Z Song… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Infusing “chemical wisdom” should improve the data-driven approaches that rely exclusively
on historical synthetic data for automatic retrosynthesis planning. For this purpose, we …

Computer-aided retrosynthetic design: fundamentals, tools, and outlook

Y Sun, NV Sahinidis - Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Identifying synthetic routes to molecules of interest has been one of the most challenging
tasks for synthetic chemists. We have witnessed the gradual adoption of computational tools …