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BioT5: Enriching Cross-modal Integration in Biology with Chemical Knowledge and Natural Language Associations

11 Oct 2023arXiv:2310.07276archive 2025-07-28

Qizhi Pei, Wei zhang, Jinhua Zhu, Kehan Wu, Kaiyuan Gao, Lijun Wu, Yingce Xia, Rui Yan

Recent advancements in biological research leverage the integration of molecules, proteins, and natural language to enhance drug discovery. However, current models exhibit several limitations, such as the generation of invalid molecular SMILES, underutilization of contextual information, and equal treatment of structured and unstructured knowledge. To address these issues, we propose 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐓5, a comprehensive pre-training framework that enriches cross-modal integration in biology with chemical knowledge and natural language associations. 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐓5 utilizes SELFIES for 100 robust molecular representations and extracts knowledge from the surrounding context of bio-entities in unstructured biological literature. Furthermore, 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐓5 distinguishes between structured and unstructured knowledge, leading to more effective utilization of information. After fine-tuning, BioT5 shows superior performance across a wide range of tasks, demonstrating its strong capability of capturing underlying relations and properties of bio-entities. Our code is available at $\href{https://github.com/QizhiPei/BioT5}{Github}$.

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Drug DiscoveryMolecule CaptioningText-based de novo Molecule Generation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Molecule Captioning ChEBI-20 BioT5 BLEU-2 63.5 #5 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Molecule Captioning ChEBI-20 BioT5 BLEU-4 55.6 #5 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Molecule Captioning ChEBI-20 BioT5 METEOR 65.6 #5 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Molecule Captioning ChEBI-20 BioT5 ROUGE-1 69.2 #5 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Molecule Captioning ChEBI-20 BioT5 ROUGE-2 55.9 #5 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Molecule Captioning ChEBI-20 BioT5 ROUGE-L 63.3 #5 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Molecule Captioning ChEBI-20 BioT5 Text2Mol 60.3 #5 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 BLEU 86.7 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 Exact Match 41.3 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 Frechet ChemNet Distance (FCD) .43 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 Levenshtein 15.097 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 MACCS FTS 88.6 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 Morgan FTS 73.4 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 Parameter Count 252000000 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 RDK FTS 80.1 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 Text2Mol 57.6 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Text-based de novo Molecule Generation ChEBI-20 BioT5 Validity 100 #4 of 20 Archive leaderboard report

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