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However, it is still an open issue to generate molecules, which bind to specific proteins with high-binding affinities while owning desired drug-like physicochemical properties.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>To address these issues, we elaborate a novel framework for controllable protein-oriented molecule generation, named CProMG, which contains a 3D protein embedding module, a dual-view protein encoder, a molecule embedding module, and a novel drug-like molecule decoder. Based on fusing the hierarchical views of proteins, it enhances the representation of protein binding pockets significantly by associating amino acid residues with their comprising atoms. Through jointly embedding molecule sequences, their drug-like properties, and binding affinities w.r.t. proteins, it autoregressively generates novel molecules having specific properties in a controllable manner by measuring the proximity of molecule tokens to protein residues and atoms. The comparison with state-of-the-art deep generative methods demonstrates the superiority of our CProMG. Furthermore, the progressive control of properties demonstrates the effectiveness of CProMG when controlling binding affinity and drug-like properties. After that, the ablation studies reveal how its crucial components contribute to the model respectively, including hierarchical protein views, Laplacian position encoding as well as property control. Last, a case study w.r.t. protein illustrates the novelty of CProMG and the ability to capture crucial interactions between protein pockets and molecules. It\u2019s anticipated that this work can boost de novo molecule design.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The code and data underlying this article are freely available at https:\/\/github.com\/lijianing0902\/CProMG.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btad222","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,30]],"date-time":"2023-06-30T08:16:22Z","timestamp":1688112982000},"page":"i326-i336","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["CProMG: controllable protein-oriented molecule generation with desired binding affinity and drug-like properties"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"39","author":[{"given":"Jia-Ning","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University , Xi\u2019an 710072, 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