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Protein dynamics underlie many biological functions, yet remain difficult to characterize due to the high computational cost of molecular dynamics simulations and the scarcity of dynamic structural data. This survey reviews recent advances…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-29 Haocheng Tang , Liang Shi , Ya-Shi Zhang , Xixian Liu , Jian Tang , Jiarui Lu

Accurately modeling the protein fitness landscapes holds great importance for protein engineering. Recently, due to their capacity and representation ability, pre-trained protein language models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-06 Ziyi Zhou , Liang Zhang , Yuanxi Yu , Mingchen Li , Liang Hong , Pan Tan

The design of novel protein sequences with targeted functionalities underpins a central theme in protein engineering, impacting diverse fields such as drug discovery and enzymatic engineering. However, navigating this vast combinatorial…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-19 Yiheng Zhu , Zitai Kong , Jialu Wu , Weize Liu , Yuqiang Han , Mingze Yin , Hongxia Xu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Tingjun Hou

In recent years, there has been a surge in the development of 3D structure-based pre-trained protein models, representing a significant advancement over pre-trained protein language models in various downstream tasks. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiale Zhao , Wanru Zhuang , Jia Song , Yaqi Li , Shuqi Lu

Most machine learning models for materials science rely on descriptors based on materials compositions and structures, even though the chemical bond has been proven to be a valuable concept for predicting materials properties. Over the…

A Profile Mixture Model is a model of protein evolution, describing sequence data in which sites are assumed to follow many related substitution processes on a single evolutionary tree. The processes depend in part on different amino acid…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-07 Samaneh Yourdkhani , Elizabeth S. Allman , John A. Rhodes

In protein engineering, while computational models are increasingly used to predict mutation effects, their evaluations primarily rely on high-throughput deep mutational scanning (DMS) experiments that use surrogate readouts, which may not…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-11 Liang Zhang , Hua Pang , Chenghao Zhang , Song Li , Yang Tan , Fan Jiang , Mingchen Li , Yuanxi Yu , Ziyi Zhou , Banghao Wu , Bingxin Zhou , Hao Liu , Pan Tan , Liang Hong

Protein language models have excelled in a variety of tasks, ranging from structure prediction to protein engineering. However, proteins are highly diverse in functions and structures, and current state-of-the-art models including the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-27 Chang Ma , Haiteng Zhao , Lin Zheng , Jiayi Xin , Qintong Li , Lijun Wu , Zhihong Deng , Yang Lu , Qi Liu , Lingpeng Kong

Proteins are macromolecules that perform essential functions in all living organisms. Designing novel proteins with specific structures and desired functions has been a long-standing challenge in the field of bioengineering. Existing…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-03 Chence Shi , Chuanrui Wang , Jiarui Lu , Bozitao Zhong , Jian Tang

Motivation: Machine learning based prediction of compound-protein interactions (CPIs) is important for drug design, screening and repurposing studies and can improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of wet lab assays. Despite the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-02 Adiba Yaseen , Imran Amin , Naeem Akhter , Asa Ben-Hur , Fayyaz Minhas

Molecular machine learning has been maturing rapidly over the last few years. Improved methods and the presence of larger datasets have enabled machine learning algorithms to make increasingly accurate predictions about molecular…

Algorithms for machine learning-guided design, or design algorithms, use machine learning-based predictions to propose novel objects with desired property values. Given a new design task -- for example, to design novel proteins with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Clara Fannjiang , Ji Won Park

Advances in deep learning have opened an era of abundant and accurate predicted protein structures; however, similar progress in protein ensembles has remained elusive. This review highlights several recent research directions towards…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-23 Bowen Jing , Bonnie Berger , Tommi Jaakkola

The discovery of peptides having high biological activity is very challenging mainly because there is an enormous diversity of compounds and only a minority have the desired properties. To lower cost and reduce the time to obtain promising…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-11 Sébastien Giguère , François Laviolette , Mario Marchand , Denise Tremblay , Sylvain Moineau , Éric Biron , Jacques Corbeil

After the recent ground-breaking advances in protein structure prediction, one of the remaining challenges in protein machine learning is to reliably predict distributions of structural states. Parametric models of fluctuations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Marloes Arts , Jes Frellsen , Wouter Boomsma

Revealing and analyzing the various properties of materials is an essential and critical issue in the development of materials, including batteries, semiconductors, catalysts, and pharmaceuticals. Traditionally, these properties have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Limin Wang , Masatoshi Hanai , Toyotaro Suzumura , Shun Takashige , Kenjiro Taura

The design of novel proteins has many applications but remains an attritional process with success in isolated cases. Meanwhile, deep learning technologies have exploded in popularity in recent years and are increasingly applicable to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-07 Joe G Greener , Lewis Moffat , David T Jones

Data in biology is redundant, noisy, and sparse. How does the type and scale of available data impact model performance? In this work, we specifically investigate how protein language models (pLMs) scale with increasing pretraining data. We…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-31 Aviv Spinner , Erika DeBenedictis , Corey M. Hudson

Recent years have seen tremendous developments in the use of machine learning models to link amino acid sequence, structure and function of folded proteins. These methods are, however, rarely applicable to the wide range of proteins and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-27 Sören von Bülow , Giulio Tesei , Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

We are now witnessing significant progress of deep learning methods in a variety of tasks (or datasets) of proteins. However, there is a lack of a standard benchmark to evaluate the performance of different methods, which hinders the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Minghao Xu , Zuobai Zhang , Jiarui Lu , Zhaocheng Zhu , Yangtian Zhang , Chang Ma , Runcheng Liu , Jian Tang