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MOTIVATION: Proteins fold into complex structures that are crucial for their biological functions. Experimental determination of protein structures is costly and therefore limited to a small fraction of all known proteins. Hence, different…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-18 David Menéndez Hurtado , Karolis Uziela , Arne Elofsson

Protein similarity searches are a routine job for molecular biologists where a query sequence of amino acids needs to be compared and ranked against an ever-growing database of proteins. All available algorithms in this field can be grouped…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Akash Nag , Sunil Karforma

Deep generative models that learn from the distribution of natural protein sequences and structures may enable the design of new proteins with valuable functions. While the majority of today's models focus on generating either sequences or…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-03 Chentong Wang , Sarah Alamdari , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Ava Amini , Kevin K. Yang

Protein structure prediction has been a grand challenge problem in the structure biology over the last few decades. Protein quality assessment plays a very important role in protein structure prediction. In the paper, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-20 Renzhi Cao , Taeho Jo , Jianlin Cheng

We have considered the problem of protein design based on a model where the contact energy between amino acid residues is fitted phenomenologically using the Miyazawa--Jernigan matrix. Due to the simple form of the contact energy function,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Maksim Skorobogatiy , Hong Guo , Martin J. Zuckermann

Recent advances in coarse-grained lattice and off-lattice protein models are reviewed. The sequence dependence of thermodynamical folding properties are investigated and evidence for non-randomness of the binary sequences of good folders…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Peterson

Computational design of protein-binding proteins is a fundamental capability with broad utility in biomedical research and biotechnology. Recent methods have made strides against some target proteins, but on-demand creation of high-affinity…

Bayesian experimental design is a technique that allows to efficiently select measurements to characterize a physical system by maximizing the expected information gain. Recent developments in deep neural networks and normalizing flows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Leopoldo Sarra , Florian Marquardt

We present a model, based on symmetry and geometry, for proteins. Using elementary ideas from mathematics and physics, we derive the geometries of discrete helices and sheets. We postulate a compatible solvent-mediated emergent pairwise…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-21 Jayanth R. Banavar , Achille Giacometti , Trinh X. Hoang , Amos Maritan , Tatjana Škrbić

The interaction of a protein with its environment can be understood and controlled via its 3D structure. Experimental methods for protein structure determination, such as X-ray crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy, shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Axel Levy , Eric R. Chan , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Frédéric Poitevin , Ellen D. Zhong , Gordon Wetzstein

The protein folding problem must ultimately be solved on all length scales from the atomic up through a hierarchy of complicated structures. By analyzing the stability of the folding process using physics and mathematics, this paper shows…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Walter Simmons , Joel L. Weiner

Algorithms for machine learning-guided design, or design algorithms, use machine learning-based predictions to propose novel objects with desired property values. Given a new design task -- for example, to design novel proteins with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Clara Fannjiang , Ji Won Park

Directed evolution as a widely-used engineering strategy faces obstacles in finding desired mutants from the massive size of candidate modifications. While deep learning methods learn protein contexts to establish feasible searching space,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-18 Bingxin Zhou , Outongyi Lv , Kai Yi , Xinye Xiong , Pan Tan , Liang Hong , Yu Guang Wang

In this study, the distributions of protein structure classes (or folding types) of experimentally determined structures from a legacy dataset and a comprehensive database (SCOP) are modeled precisely with geometric constructs such as…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-21 Boryeu Mao

Deep neural networks have recently drawn considerable attention to build and evaluate artificial learning models for perceptual tasks. Here, we present a study on the performance of the deep learning models to deal with global optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Hojjat Rakhshani , Lhassane Idoumghar , Soheila Ghambari , Julien Lepagnot , Mathieu Brévilliers

We present a novel dual-head deep learning architecture for protein-protein interaction modeling that enables simultaneous prediction of binding affinity ($\Delta G$) and mutation-induced affinity changes ($\Delta\Delta G$) using only…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-30 Supantha Dey , Ratul Chowdhury

How proteins fold remains a central unsolved problem in biology. While the idea of a folding code embedded in the amino acid sequence was introduced more than 6 decades ago, this code remains undefined. While we now have powerful predictive…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-04 Carlos Bustamante , Christian Kaiser , Erik Lindahl , Robert Sosa , Giovanni Volpe

The mechanisms by which a protein's 3D structure can be determined based on its amino acid sequence have long been one of the key mysteries of biophysics. Often simplistic models, such as those derived from geometric constraints, capture…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Nora Molkenthin , J. J. Güven , Steffen Mühle , Antonia S. J. S. Mey

Classification of proteins based on their structure provides a valuable resource for studying protein structure, function and evolutionary relationships. With the rapidly increasing number of known protein structures, manual and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-07-14 Oktie Hassanzadeh

One emerging approach for the fabrication of complex architectures on the nanoscale is to utilize particles customized to intrinsically self-assemble into a desired structure. Inverse methods of statistical mechanics have proven…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-08 R. B. Jadrich , B. A. Lindquist , T. M. Truskett