OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cheminformatics is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Unexpected similarity between HIV-1 reverse transcriptase and tumor necrosis factor binding sites revealed by computer vision	219
An explainability framework for deep learning on chemical reactions exemplified by enzyme-catalysed reaction classification	104
European Registry of Materials: global, unique identifiers for (undisclosed) nanomaterials	81
Explainable uncertainty quantifications for deep learning-based molecular property prediction	78
Predicting chemical structure using reinforcement learning with a stack-augmented conditional variational autoencoder	69
Exploring the ability of machine learning-based virtual screening models to identify the functional groups responsible for binding	66
Moldina: a fast and accurate search algorithm for simultaneous docking of multiple ligands	62
Dimensionally reduced machine learning model for predicting single component octanol–water partition coefficients	60
Generating diversity and securing completeness in algorithmic retrosynthesis	58
Assessing interaction recovery of predicted protein-ligand poses	55
Equivariant diffusion for structure-based de novo ligand generation with latent-conditioning	51
Paths to cheminformatics: Q&A with Ann M. Richard	51
Transformer-based molecular optimization beyond matched molecular pairs	51
Determining the parent and associated fragment formulae in mass spectrometry via the parent subformula graph	50
VSFlow: an open-source ligand-based virtual screening tool	50
Reproducible untargeted metabolomics workflow for exhaustive MS2 data acquisition of MS1 features	48
APBIO: bioactive profiling of air pollutants through inferred bioactivity signatures and prediction of novel target interactions	48
ELECTRA-DTA: a new compound-protein binding affinity prediction model based on the contextualized sequence encoding	46
Computer-aided pattern scoring (C@PS): a novel cheminformatic workflow to predict ligands with rare modes-of-action	44
AutoTemplate: enhancing chemical reaction datasets for machine learning applications in organic chemistry	43
Deep learning of multimodal networks with topological regularization for drug repositioning	43
PMF-CPI: assessing drug selectivity with a pretrained multi-functional model for compound–protein interactions	43
MLinvitroTox reloaded for high-throughput hazard-based prioritization of high-resolution mass spectrometry data	42
One chiral fingerprint to find them all	41
AiZynthFinder 4.0: developments based on learnings from 3 years of industrial application	41

Fifteen years of ChEMBL and its role in cheminformatics and drug discovery	40
Analysis of the benefits of imputation models over traditional QSAR models for toxicity prediction	38
Explaining compound activity predictions with a substructure-aware loss for graph neural networks	37
The BinDiscover database: a biology-focused meta-analysis tool for 156,000 GC–TOF MS metabolome samples	37
Advancements in thermochemical predictions: a multi-output thermodynamics-informed neural network approach	36
Chemical toxicity prediction based on semi-supervised learning and graph convolutional neural network	36
NanoBinder: a machine learning assisted nanobody binding prediction tool using Rosetta energy scores	35
Crossover operators for molecular graphs with an application to virtual drug screening	34
Shinyscreen: mass spectrometry data inspection and quality checking utility	33
Bitter peptide prediction using graph neural networks	32
Splitting chemical structure data sets for federated privacy-preserving machine learning	32
PyL3dMD: Python LAMMPS 3D molecular descriptors package	31
Semi-automated workflow for molecular pair analysis and QSAR-assisted transformation space expansion	31
Accelerated hit identification with target evaluation, deep learning and automated labs: prospective validation in IRAK1	30
canSAR chemistry registration and standardization pipeline	30
Predictive modeling of visible-light azo-photoswitches’ properties using structural features	30
On the difficulty of validating molecular generative models realistically: a case study on public and proprietary data	29
Enhancing chemical reaction search through contrastive representation learning and human-in-the-loop	28
Exploration and augmentation of pharmacological space via adversarial auto-encoder model for facilitating kinase-centric drug development	28
UMAP-based clustering split for rigorous evaluation of AI models for virtual screening on cancer cell lines*	27
GT-NMR: a novel graph transformer-based approach for accurate prediction of NMR chemical shifts	27
A systematic review of deep learning chemical language models in recent era	25
CRAFT: a web-integrated cavity prediction tool based on flow transfer algorithm	25
Papyrus: a large-scale curated dataset aimed at bioactivity predictions	24
Rxn-INSIGHT: fast chemical reaction analysis using bond-electron matrices	24
Diversifying cheminformatics	24
Infrared spectrum analysis of organic molecules with neural networks using standard reference data sets in combination with real-world data	24
Comprehensive benchmarking of computational tools for predicting toxicokinetic and physicochemical properties of chemicals	24
New algorithms demonstrate untargeted detection of chemically meaningful changing units and formula assignment for HRMS data of polymeric mixtures in the open-source constellation web application	24
Using test-time augmentation to investigate explainable AI: inconsistencies between method, model and human intuition	23
FlavorMiner: a machine learning platform for extracting molecular flavor profiles from structural data	23
PDBe CCDUtils: an RDKit-based toolkit for handling and analysing small molecules in the Protein Data Bank	23
Scaffold Generator: a Java library implementing molecular scaffold functionalities in the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK)	23
ScaffoldGVAE: scaffold generation and hopping of drug molecules via a variational autoencoder based on multi-view graph neural networks	23
Efficient 3D conformer generation of cyclic peptides formed by a disulfide bond	23
VGSC-DB: an online database of voltage-gated sodium channels	23
Implementation of a soft grading system for chemistry in a Moodle plugin	22
YoDe-Segmentation: automated noise-free retrieval of molecular structures from scientific publications	22
Reaction rebalancing: a novel approach to curating reaction databases	22
Applying atomistic neural networks to bias conformer ensembles towards bioactive-like conformations	21
Notes on molecular fragmentation and parameter settings for a dissipative particle dynamics study of a C10E4/water mixture with lamellar bilayer formation	21
DTi2Vec: Drug–target interaction prediction using network embedding and ensemble learning	20
Activity cliff-aware reinforcement learning for de novo drug design	20
Probabilistic Random Forest improves bioactivity predictions close to the classification threshold by taking into account experimental uncertainty	20
Ilm-NMR-P31: an open-access 31P nuclear magnetic resonance database and data-driven prediction of 31P NMR shifts	20
Chemical reaction network knowledge graphs: the OntoRXN ontology	20
Application of deep metric learning to molecular graph similarity	20
Visualising lead optimisation series using reduced graphs	20
Automatic molecular fragmentation by evolutionary optimisation	20
Chemical rules for optimization of chemical mutagenicity via matched molecular pairs analysis and machine learning methods	19

Data mining of PubChem bioassay records reveals diverse OXPHOS inhibitory chemotypes as potential therapeutic agents against ovarian cancer	19
AI-driven molecular generation of not-patented pharmaceutical compounds using world open patent data	19
The specification game: rethinking the evaluation of drug response prediction for precision oncology	19
Achieving well-informed decision-making in drug discovery: a comprehensive calibration study using neural network-based structure-activity models	19
Learning protein-ligand binding affinity with atomic environment vectors	18
Off-targetP ML: an open source machine learning framework for off-target panel safety assessment of small molecules	18
Towards a partial order graph for interactive pharmacophore exploration: extraction of pharmacophores activity delta	18
ChemInformatics Model Explorer (CIME): exploratory analysis of chemical model explanations	18
DeepSA: a deep-learning driven predictor of compound synthesis accessibility	18
Deepmol: an automated machine and deep learning framework for computational chemistry	18
TCMSID: a simplified integrated database for drug discovery from traditional chinese medicine	18
Novel multi-objective affinity approach allows to identify pH-specific μ-opioid receptor agonists	18
piscesCSM: prediction of anticancer synergistic drug combinations	17
Ensemble completeness in conformer sampling: the case of small macrocycles	17
Searching chemical databases in the pre-history of cheminformatics	17
Enhancing molecular property prediction with quantized GNN models	16
Integrating synthetic accessibility with AI-based generative drug design	16
HepatoToxicity Portal (HTP): an integrated database of drug-induced hepatotoxicity knowledgebase and graph neural network-based prediction model	16
UnCorrupt SMILES: a novel approach to de novo design	16
AI/ML methodologies and the future-will they be successful in designing the next generation of new chemical entities?	16
Paths to cheminformatics: Q&A with Phyo Phyo Kyaw Zin	15
MolNexTR: a generalized deep learning model for molecular image recognition	15
Leveraging computational tools to combat malaria: assessment and development of new therapeutics	15
Geometric deep learning for molecular property predictions with chemical accuracy across chemical space	15
Nonadditivity in public and inhouse data: implications for drug design	15
Machine learning to predict metabolic drug interactions related to cytochrome P450 isozymes	15
TB-IECS: an accurate machine learning-based scoring function for virtual screening	15
QPHAR: quantitative pharmacophore activity relationship: method and validation	14
Tuning gradient boosting for imbalanced bioassay modelling with custom loss functions	14
Human-in-the-loop active learning for goal-oriented molecule generation	14
Decrypting orphan GPCR drug discovery via multitask learning	14
DECIMER—hand-drawn molecule images dataset	14
What makes a reaction network “chemical”?	13
One size does not fit all: revising traditional paradigms for assessing accuracy of QSAR models used for virtual screening	13
LAGNet: better electron density prediction for LCAO-based data and drug-like substances	13
The effect of noise on the predictive limit of QSAR models	13
Advancing material property prediction: using physics-informed machine learning models for viscosity	13
Solvent flashcards: a visualisation tool for sustainable chemistry	13
ReMODE: a deep learning-based web server for target-specific drug design	13
rMSIfragment: improving MALDI-MSI lipidomics through automated in-source fragment annotation	13
Automated molecular structure segmentation from documents using ChemSAM	13
SMILES all around: structure to SMILES conversion for transition metal complexes	13
qHTSWaterfall: 3-dimensional visualization software for quantitative high-throughput screening (qHTS) data	12
A novel multitask learning algorithm for tasks with distinct chemical space: zebrafish toxicity prediction as an example	12
How can SHAP values help to shape metabolic stability of chemical compounds?	12
PROTEOMAS: a workflow enabling harmonized proteomic meta-analysis and proteomic signature mapping	12
Application of machine reading comprehension techniques for named entity recognition in materials science	12
Llamol: a dynamic multi-conditional generative transformer for de novo molecular design	12
XSMILES: interactive visualization for molecules, SMILES and XAI attribution scores	12
Suitability of large language models for extraction of high-quality chemical reaction dataset from patent literature	12
OWSum: algorithmic odor prediction and insight into structure-odor relationships	12
Ontologies4Cat: investigating the landscape of ontologies for catalysis research data management	12
Pretraining graph transformers with atom-in-a-molecule quantum properties for improved ADMET modeling	12
PIKAChU: a Python-based informatics kit for analysing chemical units	12