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The task of RNA design given a target structure aims to find a sequence that can fold into that structure. It is a computationally hard problem where some version(s) have been proven to be NP-hard. As a result, heuristic methods such as…

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Sequential recommender systems have achieved steady gains in offline accuracy, yet it remains unclear how close current models are to the intrinsic accuracy limit imposed by the data. A reliable, model-agnostic estimate of this ceiling…

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The thesis is aimed to solve the template-free protein folding problem by tackling two important components: efficient sampling in vast conformation space, and design of knowledge-based potentials with high accuracy. We have proposed the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Feng Zhao

RNA design is the search for a sequence or set of sequences that will fold into predefined structures, also known as the inverse problem of RNA folding. While numerous RNA design methods have been invented to find sequences capable of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-13 Tianshuo Zhou , Wei Yu Tang , David H. Mathews , Liang Huang

We present an implementation in a linear-scaling density-functional theory code of an electronic enthalpy method, which has been found to be natural and efficient for the ab initio calculation of finite systems under hydrostatic pressure.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Niccolò R. C. Corsini , Andrea Greco , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Carla Molteni , Peter D. Haynes

Sample selection improves the efficiency and effectiveness of machine learning models by providing informative and representative samples. Typically, samples can be modeled as a sample graph, where nodes are samples and edges represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianchi Xie , Jiangning Zhu , Guozu Ma , Minzhi Lin , Wei Chen , Weikai Yang , Shixia Liu

Data partitioning that maximizes/minimizes the Shannon entropy, or more generally the R\'enyi entropy is a crucial subroutine in data compression, columnar storage, and cardinality estimation algorithms. These partition algorithms can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Aryan Esmailpour , Sanjay Krishnan , Stavros Sintos

The thermodynamical properties of heterogeneous DNA sequences are computed by path integral techniques applied to a nonlinear model Hamiltonian. The base pairs relative displacements are interpreted as time dependent paths whose amplitudes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-12 Marco Zoli

Accurate prediction of RNA properties, such as stability and interactions, is crucial for advancing our understanding of biological processes and developing RNA-based therapeutics. RNA structures can be represented as 1D sequences, 2D…

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Rising costs in recent years of developing new drugs and treatments have led to extensive research in optimization techniques in biomolecular design. Currently, the most widely used approach in biomolecular design is directed evolution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Alexander Whatley , Zhekun Luo , Xiangru Tang

The process of deriving an interatomic potentials represents an attempt to integrate out the electronic degrees of freedom from the full quantum description of a condensed matter system. In practice it is the derivatives of the interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-23 G. J. Ackland

We modify and extend the recently developed statistical mechanical model for predicting the thermodynamic properties of chain molecules having noncovalent double-stranded conformations, as in RNA or ssDNA, and $\beta-$sheets in protein, by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Fei Liu , Luru Dai , Zhong-can Ou-Yang

We set up a framework for quantum stochastic thermodynamics based solely on experimentally controllable, but otherwise arbitrary interventions at discrete times. Using standard assumptions about the system-bath dynamics and insights from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Philipp Strasberg

Recent computational efforts have shown that the current potential energy models used in molecular dynamics are not accurate enough to describe the conformational ensemble of RNA oligomers and suggest that molecular dynamics should be…

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This study investigates entropy's potential for analyzing scientific research patterns across disciplines. Originating from thermodynamics, entropy now measures uncertainty and diversity in information systems. We examine Shannon Entropy,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-27 Yujie Shi , Alex Jie Yang , Sanhong Deng

In this project, we present a deep neural network (DNN)-based biophysics model that uses multi-scale and uniform topological and electrostatic features to predict protein properties, such as Coulomb energies or solvation energies. The…

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RL training of multi-turn LLM agents is inherently unstable, and reasoning quality directly determines task performance. Entropy is widely used to track reasoning stability. However, entropy only measures diversity within the same input,…

We report results showing that thermally-induced openings of double stranded DNA coincide with the location of functionally relevant sites for transcription. Investigating both viral and bacterial DNA gene promoter segments, we found that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Kalosakas , K. Ø. Rasmussen , A. R. Bishop , C. H. Choi , A. Usheva

Nucleic acid sequence design via codon optimization is a fundamental task with applications across synthetic biology, mRNA therapeutics, and vaccine design. Given a target protein, it is a major open challenge to navigate the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-22 Mark Fornace , Christina Wuyan Wang , Michael Lindsey

Simulated nucleotide sequences are widely used in theoretical and empirical molecular evolution studies. Conventional simulators generally use fixed parameter time-homogeneous Markov model for sequence evolution. In this work, we use the…

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