Table 2 Comparison of molecular optimization performance among MolFinder, REINVENT 4, and STELLA for the top 300 molecules in the final iteration/epoch. Performance metrics include average objective score, average pairwise Tanimoto similarity, and the number of clusters based on Sphere Exclusion algorithm with a similarity threshold of 0.3.

From: STELLA provides a drug design framework enabling extensive fragment-level chemical space exploration and balanced multi-parameter optimization

 

MolFinder

REINVENT 4

STELLA

Abl1

p53

Abl1

p53

Abl1

p53

Average objective score (Std.) ↓

2.47 (0.14)

5.44 (0.37)

3.45 (0.38)

4.51 (0.34)

2.42 (0.38)

4.05 (0.25)

Average pairwise similarity (Std.) ↓

0.33 (0.1)

0.23 (0.1)

0.31 (0.07)

0.31 (0.07)

0.28 (0.11)

0.26 (0.1)

Number of clusters ↑

7

27

11

21

18

20