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Protein design with desirable properties has been a significant challenge for many decades. Generative artificial intelligence is a promising approach and has achieved great success in various protein generation tasks. Notably, diffusion…

Sparked by innovations in generative artificial intelligence (AI), the field of protein design has undergone a paradigm shift with an explosion of new models for optimizing existing enzymes or creating them from scratch. After more than one…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-04 Lasse Middendorf , Noelia Ferruz

After AlphaFold won the Nobel Prize, protein prediction with deep learning once again became a hot topic. We comprehensively explore advanced deep learning methods applied to protein structure prediction and design. It begins by examining…

Protein representation learning plays a crucial role in understanding the structure and function of proteins, which are essential biomolecules involved in various biological processes. In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Bozhen Hu , Cheng Tan , Lirong Wu , Jiangbin Zheng , Jun Xia , Zhangyang Gao , Zicheng Liu , Fandi Wu , Guijun Zhang , Stan Z. Li

Proteins power a vast array of functional processes in living cells. The capability to create new proteins with designed structures and functions would thus enable the engineering of cellular behavior and development of protein-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-08 Yeqing Lin , Mohammed AlQuraishi

Attention-based models trained on protein sequences have demonstrated incredible success at classification and generation tasks relevant for artificial intelligence-driven protein design. However, we lack a sufficient understanding of how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Erik Nijkamp , Jeffrey Ruffolo , Eli N. Weinstein , Nikhil Naik , Ali Madani

Directed evolution of proteins has been the most effective method for protein engineering. However, a new paradigm is emerging, fusing the library generation and screening approaches of traditional directed evolution with computation…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-29 Kadina E. Johnston , Clara Fannjiang , Bruce J. Wittmann , Brian L. Hie , Kevin K. Yang , Zachary Wu

We report a flexible language-model based deep learning strategy, applied here to solve complex forward and inverse problems in protein modeling, based on an attention neural network that integrates transformer and graph convolutional…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-20 Markus J. Buehler

Generative modeling for protein engineering is key to solving fundamental problems in synthetic biology, medicine, and material science. We pose protein engineering as an unsupervised sequence generation problem in order to leverage the…

Protein fitness optimization involves finding a protein sequence that maximizes desired quantitative properties in a combinatorially large design space of possible sequences. Recent advances in steering protein generative models (e.g.,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-22 Jason Yang , Wenda Chu , Daniel Khalil , Raul Astudillo , Bruce J. Wittmann , Frances H. Arnold , Yisong Yue

Protein engineering is experiencing a paradigmatic shift through the integration of geometric deep learning into computational design workflows. While traditional strategies, such as rational design and directed evolution, have enabled…

The 21st century is presenting humankind with unprecedented environmental and medical challenges. The ability to design novel proteins tailored for specific purposes could transform our ability to respond timely to these issues. Recent…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-24 Noelia Ferruz , Birte Höcker

Accurately modeling and designing protein complex structures is a central problem in computational structural biology, with broad implications for understanding cellular function and developing therapeutics. This thesis investigates two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ziwei Xie

Designing new chemical compounds with desired pharmaceutical properties is a challenging task and takes years of development and testing. Still, a majority of new drugs fail to prove efficient. Recent success of deep generative modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Karina Zadorozhny , Lada Nuzhna

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

We review the recent progress in computational approaches to protein design which builds on advances in statistical-mechanical protein folding theory. In particular, we evaluate the degeneracy of the protein code (i.e. how many sequences…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Shakhnovich

Representation learning and \emph{de novo} generation of proteins are pivotal computational biology tasks. Whilst natural language processing (NLP) techniques have proven highly effective for protein sequence modelling, structure modelling…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-08 Benoit Gaujac , Jérémie Donà , Liviu Copoiu , Timothy Atkinson , Thomas Pierrot , Thomas D. Barrett

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

A generative model is developed for deep (multi-layered) convolutional dictionary learning. A novel probabilistic pooling operation is integrated into the deep model, yielding efficient bottom-up (pretraining) and top-down (refinement)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-17 Yunchen Pu , Xin Yuan , Lawrence Carin

Computational protein design facilitates discovery of novel proteins with prescribed structure and functionality. Exciting designs were recently reported using novel data-driven methodologies that can be roughly divided into two categories:…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Cyril Malbranke , David Bikard , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson , Jérôme Tubiana