Peer-Reviewed Publication
Sci Rep2025;15(1):28135.August 1, 2025Journal Article

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

Hokyun Jeon1, Jin Gyu Lee1, Wonseok Shin1, Hyunjun Ji1, InSuk Joung2, Hui Sun Lee3
1Standigm Inc, 182 Dogok-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea.
2Standigm Inc, 182 Dogok-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea. insuk.joung@standigm.com.
3Standigm Inc, 182 Dogok-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea. huisun.lee@standigm.com.

Abstract

In drug discovery, identifying molecules with desired pharmacological properties remains challenging, as conventional methods often rely on exhaustive trial-and-error and limited exploration of chemical space. Here, we present STELLA, a metaheuristics-based generative molecular design framework that combines an evolutionary algorithm for fragment-based chemical space exploration with a clustering-…

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