FROGENT: An End-to-End Full-process Drug Design Multi-Agent System
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Medical and scientific domain agents
Abstract (arXiv)
Drug discovery is a complex, multi-step pipeline that remains heavily dependent on manual, experience-driven operations; meanwhile, existing customized artificial intelligence tools are fragmented across web applications, desktop software, and code libraries, resulting in incompatible interfaces and inefficient, burdensome workflows. To overcome these challenges, we propose FROGENT, a full-process drug design multi-agent system that leverages the planning, reasoning, and tool-use capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to unify drug discovery within a closed-loop and autonomous framework. FROGENT is a collaborative multi-agent system comprising a central Orchestrate Agent for strategic workflow coordination and three distributed agents, Retrieve, Forge, and Gauge, that employ dynamic biochemical databases, extensible tool libraries, and task-specific computational models via the Model Context Protocol. This architecture enables end-to-end execution of complex drug discovery pipelines, covering target identification, small-molecule generation, peptide optimization, and retrosynthetic planning. Across eight benchmarks spanning core drug discovery tasks, FROGENT consistently outperforms six increasingly advanced ReAct-style agents. Case studies further demonstrate its practicality and generalization across real-world small-molecule and peptide design scenarios. Overall, FROGENT not only achieves substantial gains in efficiency and accuracy, but also demonstrates the potential of LLM-based agentic systems to autonomously orchestrate drug development pipelines, reducing, or even replacing, reliance on manual, experience-driven human intervention.
Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Medical and scientific domain agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 26 of its 66 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 14 Aug 2025.
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