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We introduce RosettaSearch, an inference-time multi-objective optimization approach for backbone conditioned protein sequence design. We use large language models (LLMs) as a generative optimizer within a search algorithm capable of…

As a necessary process in drug development, finding a drug compound that can selectively bind to a specific protein is highly challenging and costly. Drug-target affinity (DTA), which represents the strength of drug-target interaction…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-18 Zhiqin Zhu , Zheng Yao , Guanqiu Qi , Neal Mazur , Baisen Cong

The present work provides a new approach to evolve ligand structures which represent possible drug to be docked to the active site of the target protein. The structure is represented as a tree where each non-empty node represents a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Avishek Ghosh , Arnab Ghosh , Arkabandhu Chowdhury , Jubin Hazra

Non-adherence to medications is a critical concern since nearly half of patients with chronic illnesses do not follow their prescribed medication regimens, leading to increased mortality, costs, and preventable human distress. Amongst stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Navreet Kaur , Manuel Gonzales , Cristian Garcia Alcaraz , Jiaqi Gong , Kristen J. Wells , Laura E. Barnes

Drug discovery seeks molecules (ligands) that bind strongly and selectively to a target protein. However, fewer than 5% of candidate ligands pass the bar for even the early stages of drug discovery. Furthermore, we want methods that work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Rahul Nandakumar , Ben Fauber , Deepayan Chakrabarti

Predicting the efficacy of a drug for a given individual, using high-dimensional genomic measurements, is at the core of precision medicine. However, identifying features on which to base the predictions remains a challenge, especially when…

Predicting enzyme kinetic parameters quantifies how efficiently an enzyme catalyzes a specific substrate under defined biochemical conditions. Canonical parameters such as the turnover number ($k_\text{cat}$), Michaelis constant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Fei Wang , Xinye Zheng , Kun Li , Yanyan Wei , Yuxin Liu , Ganpeng Hu , Tong Bao , Jingwen Yang

Understanding the structure of the protein-ligand complex is crucial to drug development. Existing virtual structure measurement and screening methods are dominated by docking and its derived methods combined with deep learning. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Kelei He , Tiejun Dong , Jinhui Wu , Junfeng Zhang

Large Language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for addressing challenges across diverse domains. Notably, recent studies have demonstrated that large language models significantly enhance the efficiency of biomolecular analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Jiyue Jiang , Zikang Wang , Yuheng Shan , Heyan Chai , Jiayi Li , Zixian Ma , Xinrui Zhang , Yu Li

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

In recent decades, traditional drug research and development have been facing challenges such as high cost, long timelines, and high risks. To address these issues, many computational approaches have been suggested for predicting the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-13 Chunyan Ao , Zhichao Xiao , Lixin Guan , Liang Yu

This paper represents a groundbreaking advancement in Parkinson disease (PD) research by employing a novel machine learning framework to categorize PD into distinct subtypes and predict its progression. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ashwin Ram

The widespread application of machine learning (ML) to the chemical sciences is making it very important to understand how the ML models learn to correlate chemical structures with their properties, and what can be done to improve the…

Predicting the inhibitory potency of small molecules against Tyrosyl-DNA Phosphodiesterase 1 (TDP1)-a key target in overcoming cancer chemoresistance-remains a critical challenge in early drug discovery. We present a deep learning framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Baichuan Zeng

Over the past decade, the use of machine learning (ML) models in healthcare applications has rapidly increased. Despite high performance, modern ML models do not always capture patterns the end user requires. For example, a model may…

Structure based ligand discovery is one of the most successful approaches for augmenting the drug discovery process. Currently, there is a notable shift towards machine learning (ML) methodologies to aid such procedures. Deep learning has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-12 Marta M. Stepniewska-Dziubinska , Piotr Zielenkiewicz , Pawel Siedlecki

Software engineering activities frequently involve edits to existing code. However, contemporary code language models (LMs) lack the ability to handle diverse types of code-edit requirements. In this work, we attempt to overcome this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tushar Aggarwal , Swayam Singh , Abhijeet Awasthi , Aditya Kanade , Nagarajan Natarajan

In pharmaceutical R&D, predicting the efficacy of a pharmaceutical in treating a particular disease prior to clinical testing or any real-world use has been challenging. In this paper, we propose a flexible and modular machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Adrien Couetoux , Thomas Devenyns , Lise Diagne , David Champagne , Pierre-Yves Mousset , Chris Anagnostopoulos

Accurate estimation of mutational effects on protein-protein binding energies is an open problem with applications in structural biology and therapeutic design. Several deep learning predictors for this task have been proposed, but,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-09 Arthur Deng , Karsten Householder , Fang Wu , Sebastian Thrun , K. Christopher Garcia , Brian Trippe