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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising therapeutic approaches against drug-resistant pathogens. Recently, deep generative models are used to discover new AMPs. However, previous studies mainly focus on peptide sequence attributes and…

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As antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains are rapidly spreading worldwide, infections caused by these strains are emerging as a global crisis causing the death of millions of people every year. Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) are one of the…

Deep learning-based antimicrobial peptide (AMP) discovery faces critical challenges such as limited controllability, lack of representations that efficiently model antimicrobial properties, and low experimental hit rates. To address these…

To address the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial peptides (AMP) are being explored for their potent and promising ability to fight resistant pathogens. While artificial intelligence (AI) is being employed to…

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Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable advancements in chemistry and biomedical research, acting as versatile foundation models for various tasks. We introduce AMP-Designer, an LLM-based approach for swiftly designing novel…

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) emerge as promising agents against antimicrobial resistance, providing an alternative to conventional antibiotics. Artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionized AMP discovery through both discrimination and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-23 Paulina Szymczak , Ewa Szczurek

Recently, Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been an area of interest in the researches, as the first line of defense against the bacteria. They are raising attention as an efficient way of fighting multidrug resistance. Discovering and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-06 Neda Zarayeneh , Zahra Hanifeloo

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have exhibited unprecedented potential as biomaterials in combating multidrug-resistant bacteria. Despite the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence for novel AMP design, challenges pertaining to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-03 Li Wang , Yiping Li , Xiangzheng Fu , Xiucai Ye , Junfeng Shi , Gary G. Yen , Xiangxiang Zeng

Identification of antimicrobial peptides is an important and necessary issue in today's era. Antimicrobial peptides are essential as an alternative to antibiotics for biomedical applications and many other practical applications. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Reyhaneh Keshavarzpour , Eghbal Mansoori

Generative deep learning techniques have demonstrated an impressive capacity for tackling biomolecular design problems in recent years. Despite their high performance, however, they still suffer from a lack of interpretability and rigorous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jyler Menard , R. A. Mansbach

Deep learning holds a big promise for optimizing existing peptides with more desirable properties, a critical step towards accelerating new drug discovery. Despite the recent emergence of several optimized Antimicrobial peptides(AMP)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-06 Li Wang , Xiangzheng Fu , Jiahao Yang , Xinyi Zhang , Xiucai Ye , Yiping Liu , Tetsuya Sakurai , Xiangxiang Zeng

Identifying the targets of an antimicrobial peptide is a fundamental step in studying the innate immune response and combating antibiotic resistance, and more broadly, precision medicine and public health. There have been extensive studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Qinze Yu , Zhihang Dong , Xingyu Fan , Licheng Zong , Yu Li

Antimicrobial resistance threatens healthcare sustainability and motivates low-cost computational discovery of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). De novo peptide generation must optimize antimicrobial activity and safety through low predicted…

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Antibiotics are a vital class of drugs closely associated with the prevention and treatment of bacterial infections. Accurate prediction of molecular antimicrobial activity remains a key challenge in the pursuit of novel antibiotic…

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Given the emerging global threat of antimicrobial resistance, new methods for next-generation antimicrobial design are urgently needed. We report a peptide generation framework PepCVAE, based on a semi-supervised variational autoencoder…

The fundamental goal of generative drug design is to propose optimized molecules that meet predefined activity, selectivity, and pharmacokinetic criteria. Despite recent progress, we argue that existing generative methods are limited in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Julien Horwood , Emmanuel Noutahi

Antibiotic resistance presents a growing global health crisis, demanding new therapeutic strategies that target novel bacterial mechanisms. Recent advances in protein structure prediction and machine learning-driven molecule generation…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-22 Maximilian G. Schuh , Joshua Hesse , Stephan A. Sieber

Machine learning in drug discovery has been focused on virtual screening of molecular libraries using discriminative models. Generative models are an entirely different approach that learn to represent and optimize molecules in a continuous…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-17 Matthew Ragoza , Tomohide Masuda , David Ryan Koes

Most available antimicrobial peptides (AMP) prediction methods use common approach for different classes of AMP. Contrary to available approaches, we suggest, that a strategy of prediction should be based on the fact, that there are several…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-31 Boris Vishnepolsky , Malak Pirtskhalava

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest health problem, especially in the current period of COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the unique membrane-destruction bactericidal mechanism, antimicrobial peptide-mimetic copolymers are paid more…

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