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New benchmark and model tackle enzymatic reaction prediction

Researchers have introduced VenusRX-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate models on enzymatic reaction prediction, retrosynthesis, and Enzyme Commission (EC) number prediction. This benchmark highlights a significant gap between chemical and enzymatic models, attributed to limited data and the complexity of modeling biomolecular structures. To address this, the team developed VenusRX, a T5-based sequence-to-sequence model that jointly learns these tasks, incorporating EC conditioning and constrained decoding for improved biomolecule generation. VenusRX demonstrates competitive performance across various tasks, underscoring the bidirectional relationship between reaction structure and catalytic function. AI

IMPACT This research could advance AI's capabilities in understanding and predicting complex biochemical processes, potentially aiding drug discovery and synthetic biology.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yutong Hu, Tianming Huang, Yanbo Zhao, Qiongyu Zhang, Shixiang Tang, Lei Bai, Ziyi Zhou, Liang Hong, Pan Tan ·

    Elucidating the Space of Enzymatic Reaction: A Unified Benchmark and Pretrained Model

    arXiv:2610.11694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing reaction models primarily learn molecular transformations, whereas enzy- matic reactions depend jointly on molecular structure and catalytic function. We formulate this problem as learning an enzymatic reaction space link…