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Cryo-EM reconstruction algorithms seek to determine a molecule's 3D density map from a series of noisy, unlabeled 2D projection images captured with an electron microscope. Although reconstruction algorithms typically model the 3D volume as…

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Understanding how monomeric proteins fold under in vitro conditions is crucial to describing their functions in the cellular context. Significant advances both in theory and experiments have resulted in a conceptual framework for describing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-20 D. Thirumalai , Edward P. O'Brien , Greg Morrison , Changbong Hyeon

Proteins are fundamental to biology, executing diverse functions through complex physicochemical interactions, and they hold transformative potential across medicine, materials science, and environmental applications. Protein Language…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-11 Logan Hallee , Nikolaos Rafailidis , David B. Bichara , Jason P. Gleghorn

By folding into particular 3D structures, proteins play a key role in living beings. To learn meaningful representation from a protein structure for downstream tasks, not only the global backbone topology but the local fine-grained…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-05 Jiahan Li , Shitong Luo , Congyue Deng , Chaoran Cheng , Jiaqi Guan , Leonidas Guibas , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Predicting protein secondary structure using lattice model is one of the most studied computational problem in bioinformatics. Here secondary structure or three dimensional structure of protein is predicted from its amino acid sequence.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Dipan Lal Shaw , M. Sohel Rahman , A. S. M. Sohidull Islam , Shuvasish Karmaker

Generating diverse, all-atom conformational ensembles of dynamic proteins such as G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is critical for understanding their function, yet most generative models simplify atomic detail or ignore conformational…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-19 Aditya Sengar , Ali Hariri , Daniel Probst , Patrick Barth , Pierre Vandergheynst

Local protein structure analysis is informative to protein structure analysis and has been used successfully in protein structure prediction and others. Proteins have recurring structural features, such as helix caps and beta turns, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-26 Naoto Morikawa

Proteins must fold quickly to acquire their biologically functional three-dimensional native structures. Hence, these are mainly stabilized by local contacts, while intricate topologies such as knots are rare. Here, we reveal the existence…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-20 Marco Baiesi , Enzo Orlandini , Flavio Seno , Antonio Trovato

Generative models emerge as promising candidates for novel sequence-data driven approaches to protein design, and for the extraction of structural and functional information about proteins deeply hidden in rapidly growing sequence…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-10 Jeanne Trinquier , Guido Uguzzoni , Andrea Pagnani , Francesco Zamponi , Martin Weigt

The principles underlying protein folding remains one of Nature's puzzles with important practical consequences for Life. An approach that has gathered momentum since the late 1990's, looks at protein hetero-polymers and their folding…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2011-10-05 Susan Khor

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…

We present InvMSAFold, an inverse folding method for generating protein sequences that is optimized for diversity and speed. For a given structure, InvMSAFold generates the parameters of a probability distribution over the space of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-30 Luca Alessandro Silva , Barthelemy Meynard-Piganeau , Carlo Lucibello , Christoph Feinauer

Protein inverse folding aims to design an amino acid sequence that will fold into a given backbone structure, serving as a central task in protein design. Two main paradigms have been widely explored. Template-based methods exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiran Zhu , Changxi Chi , Hongxin Xiang , Wenjie Du , Xiaoqi Wang , Jun Xia

Structure-based drug design (SBDD), which aims to generate molecules that can bind tightly to the target protein, is an essential problem in drug discovery, and previous approaches have achieved initial success. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Xinze Li , Penglei Wang , Tianfan Fu , Wenhao Gao , Chengtao Li , Leilei Shi , Junhong Liu

In the diffusion-collision model, the unfolding or backward rates are given by the likelihood of secondary structural cluster dissociation. In this work, we introduce a backward rate calculation modeled from a Kramers-type thermal tunneling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Beck , Xavier Siemens

Deep generative models show promise for $\textit{de novo}$ protein design, yet reliably producing designs that are geometrically plausible, evolutionarily consistent, functionally relevant, and dynamically stable remains challenging. We…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-15 Tianyuan Zheng , Alessandro Rondina , Gos Micklem , Pietro Liò

One of the most puzzling and unsolved challenges in molecular biology is understanding how proteins fold. Despite having advanced predictive tools that can accurately estimate the native structures of proteins, we still lack a comprehensive…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-13 Jorge Vila

Structure-based drug design has seen significant advancements with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the generation of hit and lead compounds. However, most AI-driven approaches neglect the importance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xinheng He , Yijia Zhang , Haowei Lin , Xingang Peng , Xiangzhe Kong , Mingyu Li , Jianzhu Ma

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

Many aspects of the study of protein folding and dynamics have been affected by the recent advances in machine learning. Methods for the prediction of protein structures from their sequences are now heavily based on machine learning tools.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Frank Noé , Gianni De Fabritiis , Cecilia Clementi