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Composite Graph Neural Networks for Molecular Property Prediction

  • Pietro Bongini,
  • Niccolò Pancino,
  • Asma Bendjeddou,
  • Franco Scarselli,
  • Marco Maggini and
  • Monica Bianchini

Graph Neural Networks have proven to be very valuable models for the solution of a wide variety of problems on molecular graphs, as well as in many other research fields involving graph-structured data. Molecules are heterogeneous graphs composed of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Modeling the Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Small and Large Molecules)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,243 Views
17 Pages

5 November 2025

Molecular toxicity prediction plays a crucial role in drug screening and environmental health risk assessment. Traditional toxicity prediction models primarily rely on molecular fingerprints and other structural features, while neglecting the complex...

(This article belongs to the Section Novel Methods in Toxicology Research)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,322 Views
18 Pages

30 December 2024

Graph-based neural networks have proven to be useful in molecular property prediction, a critical component of computer-aided drug discovery. In this application, in response to the growing demand for improved computational efficiency and localized e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Electronic and Biomedical Engineering, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,878 Views
18 Pages

SG-ATT: A Sequence Graph Cross-Attention Representation Architecture for Molecular Property Prediction

  • Yajie Hao,
  • Xing Chen,
  • Ailu Fei,
  • Qifeng Jia,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Jinsong Shao,
  • Sanjeevi Pandiyan and
  • Li Wang

19 January 2024

Existing formats based on the simplified molecular input line entry system (SMILES) encoding and molecular graph structure are designed to encode the complete semantic and structural information of molecules. However, the physicochemical properties o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,441 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2023

Condition-based molecular generation can generate a large number of molecules with particular properties, expanding the virtual drug screening library, and accelerating the process of drug discovery. In this study, we combined a molecular graph struc...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
405 Views
21 Pages

Molecular trajectory prediction is fundamental to computational chemistry, drug discovery, and materials simulation, enabling insights into dynamics, reaction pathways, and conformational stability. Its natural alignment with graph-structured spatiot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative and Representation Learning Models for Spatio-Temporal Tasks and Recommendation: Towards Collaborative Computing Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
230 Views
26 Pages

Topology-Guided Multi-Level Graph Learning: A Unified Framework for Molecular Property Prediction

  • Hasnain Ali,
  • Momina Arshad,
  • Malik Ahsin Iqbal,
  • Motasem S. Alsawadi and
  • Fahad Alghannam

27 September 2026

Accurate molecular property prediction underpins progress in drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, and molecular design and depends critically on the quality of the learned molecular representations. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Molecular Modeling for Drug Discovery, Repurposing and Therapeutics)
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  • Open Access
394 Views
20 Pages

MSGRL: A Motif-Driven Self-Supervised Graph Representation Learning Framework for Interpretable Molecular Property Prediction

  • You Wu,
  • Yuxin Jiang,
  • Xiaoyun Qi,
  • Haitao Fu,
  • Qiyu Tang,
  • Wen Wang,
  • Cheng Zeng and
  • Guosheng Zhu

27 August 2026

Molecular property prediction is a fundamental task in drug discovery and chemical biology, where effective molecular representations are essential for accurate prediction. Learning transferable motif-level representations remains challenging because...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Views
24 Pages

GeoRC: Geometry-Aware Residual Correction for Three-Dimensional Molecular Graph Prediction

  • Zhiwang Dai,
  • Fangqi Zhou,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Hao Huang,
  • Zijian Wang and
  • Jianbo Zheng

18 October 2026

Three-dimensional graph neural networks predict molecular and atomistic properties from interatomic geometry. Existing geometric backbones are compared mainly by replacing one architecture with another, so any accuracy gain is attributed to the new d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry in Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,810 Views
17 Pages

4 June 2025

Molecular property prediction, as one of the important tasks in cheminformatics, is attracting more and more attention. The structure of a molecule is closely related to its properties, and a symmetrical molecular structure may differ significantly f...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
596 Views
21 Pages

8 July 2026

Chemical artificial intelligence increasingly relies on molecular property prediction models trained from proprietary compound libraries, bioassay records, and reaction-screening data. However, these data often contain commercially sensitive structur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods for Drug Discovery and Biological Big Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,921 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2025

The development of BACE-1 (β-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1) inhibitors is a crucial focus in exploring early treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant a...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,009 Views
21 Pages

23 March 2023

This paper reviews graph-theory-based methods that were recently developed in our group for post-processing molecular dynamics trajectories. We show that the use of algorithmic graph theory not only provides a direct and fast methodology to identify...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Study of Molecules in the Light of Spectral Graph Theory)
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  • Open Access
789 Views
17 Pages

Ligand-based virtual screening (LBVS) seeks strong early enrichment when searching ultra-large libraries, but practical screening often relies on 1D/2D descriptions while 3D information is expensive and uncertain due to conformer generation and align...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
7,968 Views
16 Pages

The treatment of complex diseases by using multiple drugs has become popular. However, drug-drug interactions (DDI) may give rise to the risk of unanticipated adverse effects and even unknown toxicity. Therefore, for polypharmacy safety it is crucial...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
418 Views
27 Pages

20 August 2026

Predicting molecular bioactivity in low-data regimes remains a central challenge in computational drug discovery, where labeled compounds for specialized tasks are scarce while related datasets are abundant. Here, we propose FerrGAT, a graph attentio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Algorithms for Multi-Modal Learning, Knowledge Graphs, and Trustworthy AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,159 Views
16 Pages

31 July 2024

Identifying the catalytic regioselectivity of enzymes remains a challenge. Compared to experimental trial-and-error approaches, computational methods like molecular dynamics simulations provide valuable insights into enzyme characteristics. However,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computational Chemistry for Drug Design, Discovery and Screening)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,263 Views
24 Pages

30 November 2025

Molecular odor prediction represents a fundamental challenge in computational chemistry with significant applications in fragrance design, food science, and chemical safety assessment. While traditional Quantitative Structure–Activity Relations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis of Natural Volatile Organic Compounds (NVOCs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,924 Views
16 Pages

21 October 2025

Despite the value of molecular packing (MP) calculations in modeling the properties of organic crystals, its widespread adoption is hindered by the absence of a simple tool broadly accessible to non-specialists, and by the lack of reliability inheren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,684 Views
20 Pages

9 August 2023

Ligand-based virtual screening (LBVS) is a promising approach for rapid and low-cost screening of potentially bioactive molecules in the early stage of drug discovery. Compared with traditional similarity-based machine learning methods, deep learning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,194 Views
19 Pages

19 March 2024

The increasing utilization of artificial intelligence algorithms in drug development has proven to be highly efficient and effective. One area where deep learning-based approaches have made significant contributions is in drug repositioning, enabling...

(This article belongs to the Section Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,491 Views
31 Pages

Background: Single-target Alzheimer’s disease (AD) therapies have repeatedly failed to modify disease progression, highlighting a critical mismatch between multifactorial pathology and reductionist pharmacology. Methods: We developed a represen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,880 Views
25 Pages

On Neighborhood Inverse Sum Indeg Energy of Molecular Graphs

  • Sourav Mondal,
  • Biswajit Some,
  • Anita Pal and
  • Kinkar Chandra Das

14 October 2022

The spectral graph theory explores connections between combinatorial features of graphs and algebraic properties of associated matrices. The neighborhood inverse sum indeg (NI) index was recently proposed and explored to be a significant molecular de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Combinatorics and Graph Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
105 Citations
5,118 Views
16 Pages

Edge-Version Atom-Bond Connectivity and Geometric Arithmetic Indices of Generalized Bridge Molecular Graphs

  • Xiujun Zhang,
  • Xinling Wu,
  • Shehnaz Akhter,
  • Muhammad Kamran Jamil,
  • Jia-Bao Liu and
  • Mohammad Reza Farahani

14 December 2018

Topological indices are graph invariants computed by the distance or degree of vertices of the molecular graph. In chemical graph theory, topological indices have been successfully used in describing the structures and predicting certain physicochemi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discrete Mathematics and Symmetry)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,939 Views
19 Pages

Using Graph Partitioning for Scalable Distributed Quantum Molecular Dynamics

  • Hristo N. Djidjev,
  • Georg Hahn,
  • Susan M. Mniszewski,
  • Christian F. A. Negre and
  • Anders M. N. Niklasson

7 September 2019

The simulation of the physical movement of multi-body systems at an atomistic level, with forces calculated from a quantum mechanical description of the electrons, motivates a graph partitioning problem studied in this article. Several advanced algor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,004 Views
12 Pages

14 November 2022

Most of the molecular graphs in the area of mathematical chemistry are irregular. Therefore, irregularity measure is a crucial parameter in chemical graph theory. One such measure that has recently been proposed is the ve-degree irregularity index (i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, Symmetry and Regularity in Graphs, Graph Indices, Graph Parameters and Applications of Graph Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
973 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2026

This study aims to investigate the computation of the partition dimension of various anti-myocardial infarction drugs, a graph-theoretical invariant of molecular graphs representing these drugs, for understanding and computationally characterizing st...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,797 Views
22 Pages

A Graph-Theoretical Approach to Bond Length Prediction in Flavonoids Using a Molecular Graph Model

  • Moster Zhangazha,
  • Alex Somto Arinze Alochukwu,
  • Elizabeth Jonck,
  • Ronald John Maartens,
  • Eunice Mphako-Banda,
  • Simon Mukwembi and
  • Farai Nyabadza

The accurate determination of bond lengths is fundamental to understanding molecular geometry and the physicochemical behavior of chemical compounds. However, obtaining these measurements is often challenging, as both experimental techniques and adva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,992 Views
15 Pages

Drug Side Effect Prediction with Deep Learning Molecular Embedding in a Graph-of-Graphs Domain

  • Niccolò Pancino,
  • Yohann Perron,
  • Pietro Bongini and
  • Franco Scarselli

1 December 2022

Drug side effects (DSEs), or adverse drug reactions (ADRs), constitute an important health risk, given the approximately 197,000 annual DSE deaths in Europe alone. Therefore, during the drug development process, DSE detection is of utmost importance,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods for Bioinformatics and Data Science Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,812 Views
11 Pages

24 June 2024

The most important application of anticancer drugs in various forms (alkylating agents, hormones agents, and antimetabolites) is the treatment of malignant diseases. Topological indices are widely used in the field of chemical and medical sciences, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
761 Views
15 Pages

7 May 2026

Accurate matching between molecular structures and NMR spectra is an important task in automated structure elucidation. However, existing methods still face difficulties in jointly modeling multi-scale molecular topology and effectively exploiting th...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,787 Views
19 Pages

29 November 2021

The identification of drug-target interaction (DTI) plays a key role in drug discovery and development. Benefitting from large-scale drug databases and verified DTI relationships, a lot of machine-learning methods have been developed to predict DTIs....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Drug Design and Development for Human Therapeutics Using Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,527 Views
10 Pages

16 August 2022

Topological indices (molecular descriptors) are numerical values of a chemical structure and represented by a graph. Molecular descriptors are used in QSPR/QSAR modeling to determine a chemical structure’s physical, biological, and chemical pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Topological Graph Theory and Discrete Geometry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,609 Views
9 Pages

We report the calculation of boiling points for several alkyl alcohols through the use of improved molecular descriptors based on the optimization of correlation weights of local invariants of graphs. As local invariants we have used the presence of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,496 Views
15 Pages

Power Graphs of Finite Groups Determined by Hosoya Properties

  • Fawad Ali,
  • Bilal Ahmad Rather,
  • Anwarud Din,
  • Tareq Saeed and
  • Asad Ullah

29 January 2022

Suppose G is a finite group. The power graph represented by P(G) of G is a graph, whose node set is G, and two different elements are adjacent if and only if one is an integral power of the other. The Hosoya polynomial contains much information regar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,122 Views
21 Pages

Motif-Based Graph Representation Learning with Application to Chemical Molecules

  • Yifei Wang,
  • Shiyang Chen,
  • Guobin Chen,
  • Ethan Shurberg,
  • Hang Liu and
  • Pengyu Hong

This work considers the task of representation learning on the attributed relational graph (ARG). Both the nodes and edges in an ARG are associated with attributes/features allowing ARGs to encode rich structural information widely observed in real a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,325 Views
17 Pages

23 December 2025

A chemical graph is an illustration of a chemical compound’s structural formula, where the edges indicate covalent bonding and the vertices depict atoms. In the study of (molecular) graphs, Zagreb indices and their variations are the most studi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Graph Theory, Applications and Related Topics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
3,714 Views
15 Pages

On Irregularity Measures of Some Dendrimers Structures

  • Wei Gao,
  • Muhammad Aamir,
  • Zahid Iqbal,
  • Muhammad Ishaq and
  • Adnan Aslam

16 March 2019

A graph is said to be a regular graph if all its vertices have the same degree, otherwise, it is irregular. Irregularity indices are usually used for quantitative characterization of the topological structure of non-regular graphs. In numerous applic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,698 Views
11 Pages

Effect of a Ring onto Values of Eigenvalue–Based Molecular Descriptors

  • Izudin Redžepović,
  • Slavko Radenković and
  • Boris Furtula

18 August 2021

The eigenvalues of the characteristic polynomial of a graph are sensitive to its symmetry-related characteristics. Within this study, we have examined three eigenvalue–based molecular descriptors. These topological molecular descriptors, among others...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discrete and Fractional Mathematics: Symmetry and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,455 Views
16 Pages

On the Topological Indices of Commuting Graphs for Finite Non-Abelian Groups

  • Fawad Ali,
  • Bilal A. Rather,
  • Nahid Fatima,
  • Muhammad Sarfraz,
  • Asad Ullah,
  • Khalid Abdulkhaliq M. Alharbi and
  • Rahim Dad

19 June 2022

A topological index is a number generated from a molecular structure (i.e., a graph) that indicates the essential structural properties of the proposed molecule. Indeed, it is an algebraic quantity connected with the chemical structure that correlate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Topological Indices and Symmetry in Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,714 Views
13 Pages

Entropies Via Various Molecular Descriptors of Layer Structure of H3BO3

  • Muhammad Usman Ghani,
  • Muhammad Kashif Maqbool,
  • Reny George,
  • Austine Efut Ofem and
  • Murat Cancan

19 December 2022

Entropy is essential. Entropy is a measure of a system’s molecular disorder or unpredictability, since work is produced by organized molecular motion. Entropy theory offers a profound understanding of the direction of spontaneous change for man...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Molecular Topology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,156 Views
13 Pages

SolPredictor: Predicting Solubility with Residual Gated Graph Neural Network

  • Waqar Ahmad,
  • Hilal Tayara,
  • HyunJoo Shim and
  • Kil To Chong

Computational methods play a pivotal role in the pursuit of efficient drug discovery, enabling the rapid assessment of compound properties before costly and time-consuming laboratory experiments. With the advent of technology and large data availabil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,774 Views
20 Pages

18 November 2024

Topological indices are numerical parameters that provide a way to quantify the structural features of molecules using their graph representations. In chemical graph theory, these indices have been effectively employed to predict various physico-chem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,279 Views
13 Pages

Eccentricity Based Topological Indices of an Oxide Network

  • Muhammad Imran,
  • Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui,
  • Amna A. E. Abunamous,
  • Dana Adi,
  • Saida Hafsa Rafique and
  • Abdul Qudair Baig

18 July 2018

Graph theory has much great advances in the field of mathematical chemistry. Chemical graph theory has become very popular among researchers because of its wide applications in mathematical chemistry. The molecular topological descriptors are the num...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discrete Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,467 Views
15 Pages

Molecular Property Prediction by Combining LSTM and GAT

  • Lei Xu,
  • Shourun Pan,
  • Leiming Xia and
  • Zhen Li

9 March 2023

Molecular property prediction is an important direction in computer-aided drug design. In this paper, to fully explore the information from SMILE stings and graph data of molecules, we combined the SALSTM and GAT methods in order to mine the feature...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Biomedicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,875 Views
17 Pages

22 October 2024

Accurate predictions of molecular properties are crucial for advancements in drug discovery and materials science. However, this task is complex and requires effective representations of molecular structures. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) ha...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,388 Views
9 Pages

In this work, the concept of equitable partition is applied to molecular graphs to define quantitative descriptors of the symmetry and complexity of molecules, with the ultimate goal of shedding new light on the structure–property relationships...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Symmetry (Symmetry 2025))
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,799 Views
13 Pages

On Bond Incident Degree Indices of Chemical Graphs

  • Abeer M. Albalahi,
  • Akbar Ali,
  • Zhibin Du,
  • Akhlaq Ahmad Bhatti,
  • Tariq Alraqad,
  • Naveed Iqbal and
  • Amjad E. Hamza

21 December 2022

By swapping out atoms for vertices and bonds for edges, a graph may be used to model any molecular structure. A graph G is considered to be a chemical graph in graph theory if no vertex of G has a degree of 5 or greater. The bond incident degree (BID...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,805 Views
11 Pages

On the Multiplicative Degree-Based Topological Indices of Silicon-Carbon Si2C3-I[p,q] and Si2C3-II[p,q]

  • Young Chel Kwun,
  • Abaid Ur Rehman Virk,
  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • M. A. Rehman and
  • Shin Min Kang

3 August 2018

The application of graph theory in chemical and molecular structure research has far exceeded people’s expectations, and it has recently grown exponentially. In the molecular graph, atoms are represented by vertices and bonds by edges. Topologi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,797 Views
41 Pages

28 November 2025

Quantum computers, due to their superposition and entanglement properties, provide significant advantages in solving certain problems compared with classical computers. Therefore, it is crucial to identify issues that can be efficiently solved by noi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Quantum Systems and Their Applications)

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