Publications by authors named "Yi-Jia Cai"

Drug discovery and development constitute a laborious and costly undertaking. The success of a drug hinges not only good efficacy but also acceptable absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and toxicity (ADMET) properties. Overall, up to 50% of drug development failures have been contributed from undesirable ADMET profiles.

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  • The study aimed to identify the 100 most-cited papers related to nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) published between 2000 and 2019, using citation data from the Web of Science.
  • The analysis revealed that the top 100 papers had a total of 35,273 citations and included 84 research papers and 16 review papers, with China being the leading contributor.
  • Key research topics included intensity-modulated radiation therapy and chemoradiotherapy, while significant contributors like Jun Ma and Anthony T C Chan surfaced in the analysis, highlighting important trends and future directions in NPC research.
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Accurate prediction of pharmacological properties of small molecules is becoming increasingly important in drug discovery. Traditional feature-engineering approaches heavily rely on handcrafted descriptors and/or fingerprints, which need extensive human expert knowledge. With the rapid progress of artificial intelligence technology, data-driven deep learning methods have shown unparalleled advantages over feature-engineering-based methods.

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Structural information for chemical compounds is often described by pictorial images in most scientific documents, which cannot be easily understood and manipulated by computers. This dilemma makes optical chemical structure recognition (OCSR) an essential tool for automatically mining knowledge from an enormous amount of literature. However, existing OCSR methods fall far short of our expectations for realistic requirements due to their poor recovery accuracy.

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  • Accurately predicting molecular properties is crucial for drug design, but traditional methods need extensive expertise and often struggle with insufficient labeled data.
  • Researchers developed a new model called molecular graph BERT (MG-BERT) that combines graph neural networks with BERT to learn from molecular graphs effectively.
  • MG-BERT uses a self-supervised strategy for pretraining on unlabeled data, allowing it to excel in predicting molecular properties and outperform existing methods while providing high interpretability without needing custom-made features.
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