Artificial intelligence has demonstrated immense potential in scientific research. Within molecular science, it is revolutionizing the traditional computer-aided paradigm, ushering in a new era of deep learning. With recent progress in multimodal learning and natural language processing, an emerging trend has targeted at building multimodal frameworks to jointly model molecules with textual domain knowledge. In this paper, we present the first systematic survey on multimodal frameworks for molecules research. Specifically,we begin with the development of molecular deep learning and point out the necessity to involve textual modality. Next, we focus on recent advances in text-molecule alignment methods, categorizing current models into two groups based on their architectures and listing relevant pre-training tasks. Furthermore, we delves into the utilization of large language models and prompting techniques for molecular tasks and present significant applications in drug discovery. Finally, we discuss the limitations in this field and highlight several promising directions for future research.

通过综述多模态分子研究的框架，本文探讨了人工智能在分子科学中的应用，特别关注文本与分子之间的对齐方法以及使用大型语言模型和提示技术进行分子任务的重要应用，同时讨论了该领域的局限性和未来研究的几个有希望的方向。

文本与分子之间的桥梁：一项关于分子多模态框架的调查