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In this study, we propose an analytic statistical mechanics approach to solve a fundamental problem in biological physics called protein design. Protein design is an inverse problem of protein structure prediction, and its solution is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-26 Tomoei Takahashi , George Chikenji , Kei Tokita

Computer experiments with both qualitative and quantitative factors are widely used in many applications. Motivated by the emerging need of optimal configuration in the high-performance computing (HPC) system, this work proposes a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Xia Cai , Li Xu , C. Devon Lin , Yili Hong , Xinwei Deng

Despite great interest in solving RNA secondary structures due to their impact on function, it remains an open problem to determine structure from sequence. Among experimental approaches, a promising candidate is the "chemical modification…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-30 Sharon Aviran , Julius B. Lucks , Lior Pachter

Motivation: Engineering high-affinity binders targeting specific antigenic determinants remains a challenging and often daunting task, requiring extensive experimental screening. Computational methods have the potential to accelerate this…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 German P. Barletta , Rika Tandiana , Miguel Soler , Sara Fortuna , Walter Rocchia

This study presents constructions of the space-time Conservation Element and Solution Element (CESE) methods to accommodate adaptive unstructured quadrilateral meshes. Subsequently, a novel algorithm is devised to effectively manage the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-10 Lisong Shi , Chaoxiong Zhang , Chih-Yung Wen

Recently proposed modifications of the standard particle-in-cell (PIC) method resolve long-standing limitations such as exact preservation of physically conserved quantities and unbiased ensemble down-sampling. Such advances pave the way…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Frida Brogren , Christoffer Olofsson , Joel Magnusson , Arkady Gonoskov

Effective representations of protein sequences are widely recognized as a cornerstone of machine learning-based protein design. Yet, protein bioengineering poses unique challenges for sequence representation, as experimental datasets…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-07 Ana F. Rodrigues , Lucas Ferraz , Laura Balbi , Pedro Giesteira Cotovio , Catia Pesquita

Computational protein structure determination involves optimization in a problem space much too large to exhaustively search. Existing approaches include optimization algorithms such as gradient descent and simulated annealing, but these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Michael Bryson , Xijiang Miao , Homayoun Valafar

Large-scale pretrained models have proven immensely valuable in handling data-intensive modalities like text and image. However, fine-tuning these models for certain specialized modalities, such as protein sequence and cosmic ray, poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Lincan Cai , Shuang Li , Wenxuan Ma , Jingxuan Kang , Binhui Xie , Zixun Sun , Chengwei Zhu

Background:Typically, proteins perform key biological functions by interacting with each other. As a consequence, predicting which protein pairs interact is a fundamental problem. Experimental methods are slow, expensive, and may be error…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-08 Leonardo Martini , Adriano Fazzone , Luca Becchetti

Deep learning-based computational methods have achieved promising results in predicting protein-protein interactions (PPIs). However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on isolated pairwise evaluations, overlooking a model's capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xinzhe Zheng , Hao Du , Fanding Xu , Jinzhe Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Wenkang Wang , Tao Chen , Wanli Ouyang , Stan Z. Li , Yan Lu , Nanqing Dong , Yang Zhang

Proteins congregate into complexes to perform fundamental cellular functions. Phenotypic outcomes, in health and disease, are often mechanistically driven by the remodeling of protein complexes by protein coding mutations or cellular…

Protein structure prediction is a challenging and unsolved problem in computer science. Proteins are the sequence of amino acids connected together by single peptide bond. The combinations of the twenty primary amino acids are the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Mahmood A. Rashid , Firas Khatib , Abdul Sattar

Protein inference plays a vital role in the proteomics study. Two major approaches could be used to handle the problem of protein inference; top-down and bottom-up. This paper presents a framework for protein inference, which uses hardware…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-03-07 S. M. Vidanagamachchi , S. D. Dewasurendra , R. G. Ragel

Module for ab initio structure evolution (MAISE) is an open-source package for materials modeling and prediction. The code's main feature is an automated generation of neural network (NN) interatomic potentials for use in global structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Samad Hajinazar , Aidan Thorn , Ernesto D. Sandoval , Saba Kharabadze , Aleksey N. Kolmogorov

Figuring out small molecule binding sites in target proteins, in the resolution of either pocket or residue, is critical in many virtual and real drug-discovery scenarios. Since it is not always easy to find such binding sites based on…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-19 Daeseok Lee , Jeunghyun Byun , Bonggun Shin

Computational protein design has a wide variety of applications. Despite its remarkable success, designing a protein for a given structure and function is still a challenging task. On the other hand, the number of solved protein structures…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-26 Jingxue Wang , Huali Cao , John Z. H. Zhang , Yifei Qi

The algorithm "automated compression of environments" (ACE) [Nat. Phys. 18, 662 (2022)] provides a versatile way of simulating an extremely broad class of open quantum systems. This is achieved by encapsulating the influence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Moritz Cygorek , Brendon W. Lovett , Jonathan Keeling , Erik M. Gauger

Protein modeling is an increasingly popular area of machine learning research. Semi-supervised learning has emerged as an important paradigm in protein modeling due to the high cost of acquiring supervised protein labels, but the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Roshan Rao , Nicholas Bhattacharya , Neil Thomas , Yan Duan , Xi Chen , John Canny , Pieter Abbeel , Yun S. Song

In the last few years, the amount of collected data, in various computer science applications, has grown considerably. These large volumes of data need to be analyzed in order to extract useful hidden knowledge. This work focuses on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Tarek Hamrouni , Sadok Ben Yahia , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo