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Group-equivariant neural networks have emerged as a data-efficient approach to solve classification and regression tasks, while respecting the relevant symmetries of the data. However, little work has been done to extend this paradigm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Gian Marco Visani , Michael N. Pun , Arman Angaji , Armita Nourmohammad

SE(3)-based generative models have shown great promise in protein geometry modeling and effective structure design. However, the field currently lacks a modularized benchmark to enable comprehensive investigation and fair comparison of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lang Yu , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Liang He

Motivation: Despite advances in the computational analysis of high-throughput molecular profiling assays (e.g. transcriptomics), a dichotomy exists between methods that are simple and interpretable, and ones that are complex but with lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Pedro Henrique da Costa Avelar , Min Wu , Sophia Tsoka

Sequence generative models are transforming protein engineering. However, no principled framework exists for conditioning these models on auxiliary information, such as experimental data, without additional training of a generative model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Junhao Xiong , Ishan Gaur , Maria Lukarska , Hunter Nisonoff , Luke M. Oltrogge , David F. Savage , Jennifer Listgarten

Protein interaction modeling is central to protein design, which has been transformed by machine learning with applications in drug discovery and beyond. In this landscape, structure-based de novo binder design is cast as either conditional…

Motivation. Protein design aims to identify sequences compatible with a given protein fold but incompatible to any alternative folds. To select the correct sequences and to guide the search process, a design scoring function is critically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Changyu Hu , Xiang Li , Jie Liang

Proteins are sequences of amino acids that serve as the basic building blocks of living organisms. Despite rapidly growing databases documenting structural and functional information for various protein sequences, our understanding of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-06 Weihang Dai

Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors are widely used delivery platforms in gene therapy, and the design of improved capsids is key to expanding their therapeutic potential. A central challenge in AAV bioengineering, as in protein design…

The need for interpretable models has fostered the development of self-explainable classifiers. Prior approaches are either based on multi-stage optimization schemes, impacting the predictive performance of the model, or produce…

Protein structure prediction has reached revolutionary levels of accuracy on single structures, yet distributional modeling paradigms are needed to capture the conformational ensembles and flexibility that underlie biological function.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-06 Bowen Jing , Ezra Erives , Peter Pao-Huang , Gabriele Corso , Bonnie Berger , Tommi Jaakkola

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, studies on image generation models of spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained the attention of many researchers. Variational autoencoders (VAEs), as one of the most popular image generation models, have attracted a lot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Qiugang Zhan , Ran Tao , Xiurui Xie , Guisong Liu , Malu Zhang , Huajin Tang , Yang Yang

Proteins perform their biological functions through three-dimensional structures encoded by amino acid sequences, and ligand-binding protein co-design requires models that generate sequence-structure compatible proteins under explicit…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-28 Chen Wei , Fanding Xu , Minghao Sun , Zhiyuan Liu , Lin Wang , Tianrui Jia , Yihang Zhou , Yang Zhang

Protein folding and design are major biophysical problems, the solution of which would lead to important applications especially in medicine. Here a novel protein model capable of simultaneously provide quantitative protein design and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ivan Coluzza

Molecule generation is to design new molecules with specific chemical properties and further to optimize the desired chemical properties. Following previous work, we encode molecules into continuous vectors in the latent space and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Chaochao Yan , Sheng Wang , Jinyu Yang , Tingyang Xu , Junzhou Huang

Protein sequence data from nature exhibits survivorship bias: we only observe data from those organisms that survive and reproduce, while non-functional protein mutations are eliminated by natural selection. Thus, predicting whether a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhongmou Chao , Poompol Buathong , Ekaterina Selivanovitch , Susan Daniel , Peter I. Frazier

Directed evolution plays an indispensable role in protein engineering that revises existing protein sequences to attain new or enhanced functions. Accurately predicting the effects of protein variants necessitates an in-depth understanding…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-09 Yang Tan , Bingxin Zhou , Yuanhong Jiang , Yu Guang Wang , Liang Hong

De novo functional protein design aims to generate protein sequences that realize specified biochemical functions without relying on evolutionary templates, enabling broad applications in biotechnology and medicine. Existing approaches…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-05 Xinrui Chen , Yizhen Luo , Siqi Fan , Zaiqing Nie

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful and widely adopted, but their practical impact is limited by the well-known hallucination phenomenon. While recent hallucination detection methods have made notable progress, we find most of them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Boshui Chen , Zhaoxin Fan , Ke Wang , Zhiying Leng , Faguo Wu , Hongwei Zheng , Yifan Sun , Wenjun Wu

Learning effective protein representations is critical in a variety of tasks in biology such as predicting protein function or structure. Existing approaches usually pretrain protein language models on a large number of unlabeled amino acid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zuobai Zhang , Minghao Xu , Arian Jamasb , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Aurelie Lozano , Payel Das , Jian Tang