Citation: Xi Xue, Kai Chen, Hanyu Sun, Xiangying Liu, Xue Liu, Shize Li, Jingjie Yan, Yu Peng, Mohammad S. Mubarak, Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Hai-Yu Hu, Yafeng Deng, Xiandao Pan, Xiaojian Wang. Bidirectional Chemical Intelligent Net: A unified deep learning–based framework for predicting chemical reaction[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(11): 110968. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2025.110968 shu

Bidirectional Chemical Intelligent Net: A unified deep learning–based framework for predicting chemical reaction

Xi Xue ^{a, b, 1} ,
Kai Chen ^{a, 1} ,
Hanyu Sun ^a ,
Xiangying Liu ^a ,
Xue Liu ^a ,
Shize Li ^a ,
Jingjie Yan ^a ,
Yu Peng ^a ,
Mohammad S. Mubarak ^c ,
Ahmed Al-Harrasi ^d ,
Hai-Yu Hu ^a ,
Yafeng Deng ^e ,
Xiandao Pan ^{a, b, *,} ,
Xiaojian Wang ^{a, b, *,}

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State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Functions of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, China
b.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Druggability Evaluation, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, China
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Department of Chemistry, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
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Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Nizwa 616, Oman
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CarbonSilicon AI Technology Co. Ltd., Beijing 100080, China

xdp@imm.ac.cn

wangxiaojian@imm.ac.cn

Received Date: 30 September 2024
Revised Date: 4 February 2025
Accepted Date: 17 February 2025
Available Online: 19 February 2025

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Chemical reactions, which transform one set of substances to another, drive research in chemistry and biology. Recently, computer-aided chemical reaction prediction has spurred rapidly growing interest, and various deep learning–based algorithms have been proposed. However, current efforts primarily focus on developing models that support specific applications, with less emphasis on building unified frameworks that predict chemical reactions. Here, we developed Bidirectional Chemical Intelligent Net (BiCINet), a prediction framework based on Bidirectional and Auto-Regressive Transformers (BARTs), for predicting chemical reactions in various tasks, including the bidirectional prediction of organic synthesis and enzyme-mediated chemical reactions. This versatile framework was trained using general chemical reactions and achieved top-1 forward and backward accuracies of 80.7% and 48.6%, respectively, for the public benchmark dataset USPTO_50K. By multitask transfer learning and integrating various task prompts into the model, BiCINet enables retrosynthetic planning and metabolic prediction for small molecules, as well as retrosynthetic analysis and enzyme-catalyzed product prediction for natural products. These results demonstrate the superiority of our multifunctional framework for comprehensively understanding chemical reactions.
- Machine learning,
- Deep learning,
- Chemical reaction prediction,
- Retrosynthesis,
- Metabolism,
- Biocatalytic reactions
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