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  "abstract": "DNA-encoded library (DEL) synthesis relies on efficient DNA-compatible reactions to ensure library fidelity and the reliability of downstream affinity selection. However, most existing reaction yield prediction models were developed for general organic synthesis and typically use full-atom representations of complete reactants and products. In DEL single-cycle synthesis validation, an appropriate model reaction is to focus on the exposed reactive handle, its local chemical environment, the incoming building block (BB), and the reaction type, rather than large constant backgrounds such as the DNA tag, linker, and pre-existing scaffold. Here, we propose a functional-group-centric machine learning framework for DEL single-cycle reaction yield prediction. The model uses only the exposed substrate functional group (FG) and its coarse-grained local environment, the incoming BB, and the reaction type as inputs. Benchmarking on a real-world high-throughput DEL single-cycle validation dataset shows that graph neural network (GNN) models based on this localized representation outperform traditional fingerprint-based baselines, with a graph attention network (GAT) achieving the best overall performance and showing strong robustness on highly imbalanced industrial data. These results indicate that foregrounding the local reaction center is not merely a simplification of molecular representation, but a task-aligned strategy that better reflects the chemistry and decision logic of DEL single-cycle transformations. This lightweight framework is readily compatible with practical DEL workflows and provides valuable supports on reagent quality control (QC), building block selection, high-fidelity library design, and retrospective analysis of anomalous results.",
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  "affiliations": [
    "HitGen Inc., Tianfu International Bio-Town, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 610200",
    "Cambridge Innovation Center"
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  "article_type": null,
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  "authors": [
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      "name": "Tao Tang"
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    {
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      "name": "Li Gao"
    },
    {
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      ],
      "name": "Sen Gao"
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    {
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      ],
      "name": "Hongyao Zhu"
    },
    {
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      ],
      "name": "Guansai Liu"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        0
      ],
      "name": "Jin Li"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        0
      ],
      "name": "Xuemin Cheng"
    }
  ],
  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/e69v2pywktw71.bib",
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  "doi": "10.26434/chemrxiv.15008275/v1",
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  "language": null,
  "licence": "CC-BY",
  "licence_label": "CC BY",
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  "native_subjects": [
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      "1703|Computational Drug Discovery Methods"
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  "pdf_url": "https://chemrxiv.org/doi/pdf/10.26434/chemrxiv.15008275/v1",
  "pmcid": null,
  "pmid": null,
  "published": "2026-09-03",
  "publisher": "American Chemical Society (ACS)",
  "ris": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/e69v2pywktw71.ris",
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      "url": "https://chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26434/chemrxiv.15008275/v2"
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  "subjects": [
    {
      "field": "chemistry",
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  "title": "Machine Learning for High-Throughput Reaction Yield Prediction in DNA-Encoded Library Synthesis",
  "title_text": "Machine Learning for High-Throughput Reaction Yield Prediction in DNA-Encoded Library Synthesis",
  "type": "preprint",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:17:17Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/e69v2pywktw71",
  "venue": "ChemRxiv",
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