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PFM: perturbed flow matching for structure-based drug design

Jul 2026 · bioRxiv · 0 citations · 54 references
Biology

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A novel method named Perturbed Flow Matching (PFM), which significantly reduces sampling steps by leveraging a Flow Matching framework and introduces a unique perturbed conditional probability path design that incorporates pocket binding site information and atom type-coordinate coupled information to enhance molecular generation performance.

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