Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for optimizing pharmacological compound development and methods for optimizing one or more modifications of a compound. Aspects of the present disclosure further include methods for designing treatments for a disease, and methods for designing optimized candidate compounds to treat a disease that causes one or more disease effects. Aspects of the present disclosure further include computer-implemented methods for training a model for pharmacological compound design, and computer-implemented methods for optimizing chemical modification of pharmacological compounds.