March 2018 PMID 29595767

Planning chemical syntheses with deep neural networks and symbolic AI.

Marwin H S Segler, Mike Preuss, Mark P Waller

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Abstract in brief

  • The study combines Monte Carlo tree search with deep neural networks to improve computer-aided retrosynthesis for organic molecules, making it faster and more accurate.
  • Neural networks guided the search process by predicting promising reactions and filtering candidates, trained on almost all published organic reactions.
  • The new system nearly doubles the number of molecules it can solve and is 30 times faster than traditional methods, with chemists rating the AI-generated routes as equivalent to expert-designed ones in blind tests.]

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