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We present an investigation into diffusion models for molecular generation, with the aim of better understanding how their predictions compare to the results of physics-based calculations. The investigation into these models is driven by…

Excitement at the prospect of using data-driven generative models to sample configurational ensembles of biomolecular systems stems from the extraordinary success of these models on a diverse set of high-dimensional sampling tasks. Unlike…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-06 Shriram Chennakesavalu , Grant M. Rotskoff

Generating novel and functional protein sequences is critical to a wide range of applications in biology. Recent advancements in conditional diffusion models have shown impressive empirical performance in protein generation tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zinan Ling , Yi Shi , Brett McKinney , Da Yan , Yang Zhou , Bo Hui

While all the information required for the folding of a protein is contained in its amino acid sequence, one has not yet learnt how to extract this information so as to predict the detailed, biological active, three-dimensional structure of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Broglia , G. Tiana

Deep learning approaches have produced substantial breakthroughs in fields such as image classification and natural language processing and are making rapid inroads in the area of protein design. Many generative models of proteins have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Alexey Strokach , Philip M. Kim

Construction of a scaffold structure that supports a desired motif, conferring protein function, shows promise for the design of vaccines and enzymes. But a general solution to this motif-scaffolding problem remains open. Current…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-21 Brian L. Trippe , Jason Yim , Doug Tischer , David Baker , Tamara Broderick , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

RNA design shows growing applications in synthetic biology and therapeutics, driven by the crucial role of RNA in various biological processes. A fundamental challenge is to find functional RNA sequences that satisfy given structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-18 Han Huang , Ziqian Lin , Dongchen He , Liang Hong , Yu Li

Much scientific enquiry across disciplines is founded upon a mechanistic treatment of dynamic systems that ties form to function. A highly visible instance of this is in molecular biology, where an important goal is to determine…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-17 Xiaojie Guo , Yuanqi Du , Sivani Tadepalli , Liang Zhao , Amarda Shehu

Protein inverse folding, the design of an amino acid sequence based on a target protein structure, is a fundamental problem of computational protein engineering. Existing methods either generate sequences without leveraging external…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-10 Jin Han , Tianfan Fu , Wu-Jun Li

We propose a hierarchical protein backbone generative model that separates coarse and fine-grained details. Our approach called LSD consists of two stages: sampling latents which are decoded into a contact map then sampling atomic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-15 Jason Yim , Marouane Jaakik , Ge Liu , Jacob Gershon , Karsten Kreis , David Baker , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

This review is a tutorial for scientists interested in the problem of protein structure prediction, particularly those interested in using coarse-grained molecular dynamics models that are optimized using lessons learned from the energy…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-06 N. P. Schafer , B. L. Kim , W. Zheng , P. G. Wolynes

The intricate three-dimensional geometries of protein tertiary structures underlie protein function and emerge through a folding process from one-dimensional chains of amino acids. The exact spatial sequence and configuration of amino…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-24 Nora Molkenthin , Steffen Mühle , Antonia S J S Mey , Marc Timme

The design of novel protein structures remains a challenge in protein engineering for applications across biomedicine and chemistry. In this line of work, a diffusion model over rigid bodies in 3D (referred to as frames) has shown success…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jason Yim , Brian L. Trippe , Valentin De Bortoli , Emile Mathieu , Arnaud Doucet , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Designing protein sequences with specific biological functions and structural stability is crucial in biology and chemistry. Generative models already demonstrated their capabilities for reliable protein design. However, previous models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Lin Zongying , Li Hao , Lv Liuzhenghao , Lin Bin , Zhang Junwu , Chen Calvin Yu-Chian , Yuan Li , Tian Yonghong

Generating protein sequences conditioned on protein structures is an impactful technique for protein engineering. When synthesizing engineered proteins, they are commonly translated into DNA and expressed in an organism such as yeast. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Hannes Stark , Umesh Padia , Julia Balla , Cameron Diao , George Church

A geometric analysis of protein folding, which complements many of the models in the literature, is presented. We examine the process from unfolded strand to the point where the strand becomes self-interacting. A central question is how it…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-13 Walter A. Simmons , Joel L. Weiner

Protein inverse folding is a fundamental problem in bioinformatics, aiming to recover the amino acid sequences from a given protein backbone structure. Despite the success of existing methods, they struggle to fully capture the intricate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Chenglin Wang , Yucheng Zhou , Zijie Zhai , Jianbing Shen , Kai Zhang

Proteins are miniature machines whose function depends on their three-dimensional (3D) structure. Determining this structure computationally remains an unsolved grand challenge. A major bottleneck involves selecting the most accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-30 Stephan Eismann , Patricia Suriana , Bowen Jing , Raphael J. L. Townshend , Ron O. Dror

Protein sequences serve as a natural record of the evolutionary constraints that shape their functional structures. We show that it is possible to use only sequence information to go beyond predicting native structures and global stability…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-02 Ezequiel A. Galpern , Ernesto A. Roman , Diego U. Ferreiro

Deep learning is catalyzing a scientific revolution fueled by big data, accessible toolkits, and powerful computational resources, impacting many fields including protein structural modeling. Protein structural modeling, such as predicting…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-17 Wenhao Gao , Sai Pooja Mahajan , Jeremias Sulam , Jeffrey J. Gray