Advancements in Ligand-Based Virtual Screening through the Synergistic Integration of Graph Neural Networks and Expert-Crafted Descriptors
Yunchao Liu, Rocco Moretti, Yu Wang, Ha Dong, Bailu Yan, Bobby Bodenheimer, Tyler Derr, Jens Meiler
This paper evaluates combining graph neural networks with expert descriptors for ligand-based virtual screening, finding that simpler GNNs with descriptors perform comparably to complex ones and that expert descriptors excel in scaffold-split scenarios.
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · May 14, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics