SpecOpt: Contact-Diff Reasoning for Agentic Molecule Optimization Toward Binding Specificity
Researchers introduced SpecOpt, a molecular design task to improve the specificity of existing compounds by suggesting structural modifications that increase binding preference for an intended target over off-targets. An agentic framework using LLMs was developed to propose targeted modifications. The method achieved significant improvements in target-off-target binding gap for 84.8% of compounds, establishing a new molecular design problem.
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