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A protein's function depends critically on its conformational ensemble, a collection of energy weighted structures whose balance depends on temperature and environment. Though recent deep learning (DL) methods have substantially advanced…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-09 Myeongsang Lee , Lauren L. Porter

Models from the AlphaFold (AF) family reliably predict one dominant conformation for most well-ordered proteins but struggle to capture biologically relevant alternate states. Several efforts have focused on eliciting greater conformational…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-21 Minji Lee , Colin Kalicki , Minkyu Jeon , Aymen Qabel , Alisia Fadini , Mohammed AlQuraishi

Proteins are the basic building blocks of life. They usually perform functions by folding to a particular structure. Understanding the folding process could help the researchers to understand the functions of proteins and could also help to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Jianzhu Ma

Residue-residue interactions that fold a protein into a unique three-dimensional structure and make it play a specific function impose structural and functional constraints on each residue site. Selective constraints on residue sites are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-18 Sanzo Miyazawa

G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) are integral to numerous physiological processes and are the target of approximately one-third of FDA-approved therapeutics. Despite their significance, only a limited subset of GPCRs has been…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-26 Garima Chib , Parisa Mollaei , Amir Barati Farimani

Understanding how protein mutations affect protein-nucleic acid binding is critical for unraveling disease mechanisms and advancing therapies. Current experimental approaches are laborious, and computational methods remain limited in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-30 Xiang Liu , Junjie Wee , Guo-Wei Wei

We present a sequence-based probabilistic formalism that directly addresses co-operative effects in networks of interacting positions in proteins, providing significantly improved contact prediction, as well as accurate quantitative…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-07-12 Alan Lapedes , Bertrand Giraud , Christopher Jarzynski

Federated learning learns from scattered data by fusing collaborative models from local nodes. However, the conventional coordinate-based model averaging by FedAvg ignored the random information encoded per parameter and may suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Fuxun Yu , Weishan Zhang , Zhuwei Qin , Zirui Xu , Di Wang , Chenchen Liu , Zhi Tian , Xiang Chen

AlphaFold can be used for both single-chain and multi-chain protein structure prediction, while the latter becomes extremely challenging as the number of chains increases. In this work, by taking each chain as a node and assembly actions as…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ziqi Gao , Tao Feng , Jiaxuan You , Chenyi Zi , Yan Zhou , Chen Zhang , Jia Li

Antibodies are widely used as therapeutics, but their development requires costly affinity maturation, involving iterative mutations to enhance binding affinity.This paper explores a sequence-only scenario for affinity maturation, using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Can Chen , Karla-Luise Herpoldt , Chenchao Zhao , Zichen Wang , Marcus Collins , Shang Shang , Ron Benson

Modern biomedicine is challenged to predict the effects of genetic variation. Systematic functional assays of point mutants of proteins have provided valuable empirical information, but vast regions of sequence space remain unexplored.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-18 Thomas A. Hopf , John B. Ingraham , Frank J. Poelwijk , Michael Springer , Chris Sander , Debora S. Marks

Motivation: Protein folding is a dynamic process during which a protein's amino acid sequence undergoes a series of 3-dimensional (3D) conformational changes en route to reaching a native 3D structure; the resulting 3D structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-09 Aydin Wells , Khalique Newaz , Jennifer Morones , Jianlin Cheng , Tijana Milenković

Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) are transforming the field of structural biology. For example, AlphaFold, a groundbreaking neural network for protein structure prediction, has been widely adopted by researchers. The…

Proteins and other macromolecules exist not in a single state but as dynamic ensembles of interconverting conformations, which are essential for catalysis, allosteric regulation, and molecular recognition. While AI-based structure…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-22 Stephanie A. Wankowicz , Massimiliano Bonomi

Motivation: Site directed mutagenesis is widely used to understand the structure and function of biomolecules. Computational prediction of protein mutation impacts offers a fast, economical and potentially accurate alternative to laboratory…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-03 Zixuan Cang , Guo-Wei Wei

AlphaFold 3 (AF3) is a powerful biomolecular structure-predicting tool based on the latest deep learning algorithms and revolutionized AI model architectures. A few of papers have already investigated its accuracy in predicting different…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-19 Yiyang Xu , Ziyou Shen , Yanqing Lv , Shutong Tan , Chun Sun , Juan Zhang

One of the main advantages of deep learning models of protein structure, such as Alphafold2, is their ability to accurately estimate the confidence of a generated structural model, which allows us to focus on highly confident…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-23 Julia K. Varga , Sergey Ovchinnikov , Ora Schueler-Furman

Phi-values are experimental measures of how the kinetics of protein folding is changed by single-site mutations. Phi-values measure energetic quantities, but are often interpreted in terms of the structures of the transition state ensemble.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Claudia Merlo , Ken A. Dill , Thomas R. Weikl

Deep learning has contributed to major advances in the prediction of protein structure from sequence, a fundamental problem in structural bioinformatics. With predictions now approaching the accuracy of crystallographic resolution in some…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-26 Mu Gao , Mark Coletti , Russell B. Davidson , Ryan Prout , Subil Abraham , Benjamin Hernandez , Ada Sedova

Small molecule drug design hinges on obtaining co-crystallized ligand-protein structures. Despite AlphaFold2's strides in protein native structure prediction, its focus on apo structures overlooks ligands and associated holo structures.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Xinyu Gu , Akashnathan Aranganathan , Pratyush Tiwary