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The biological functions of proteins often depend on dynamic structural ensembles. In this work, we develop a flow-based generative modeling approach for learning and sampling the conformational landscapes of proteins. We repurpose highly…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Bowen Jing , Bonnie Berger , Tommi Jaakkola

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

AlphaFold 3 (AF3), the latest version of protein structure prediction software, goes beyond its predecessors by predicting protein-protein complexes. It could revolutionize drug discovery and protein engineering, marking a major step…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-07 JunJie Wee , Guo-Wei Wei

Recently developed deep learning techniques have significantly improved the accuracy of various speech and image recognition systems. In this paper we adapt some of these techniques for protein secondary structure prediction. We first train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Akosua Busia , Jasmine Collins , Navdeep Jaitly

The binding complexes formed by proteins and small molecule ligands are ubiquitous and critical to life. Despite recent advancements in protein structure prediction, existing algorithms are so far unable to systematically predict the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-21 Zhuoran Qiao , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Thomas F. Miller , Anima Anandkumar

Predicting protein secondary structures such as alpha helices, beta sheets, and coils from amino acid sequences is essential for understanding protein function. This work presents a transformer-based model that applies attention mechanisms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Manzi Kevin Maxime

This paper presents a novel approach for predicting the relative populations of protein conformations using AlphaFold 2, an AI-powered method that has revolutionized biology by enabling the accurate prediction of protein structures. While…

AlphaFold2 (AF2) has emerged in recent years as a groundbreaking innovation that has revolutionized several scientific fields, in particular structural biology, drug design and the elucidation of disease mechanisms. Many scientists now use…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-23 Ragousandirane Radjasandirane , Alexandre G. de Brevern

The goal of Protein Structure Prediction (PSP) problem is to predict a protein's 3D structure (confirmation) from its amino acid sequence. The problem has been a 'holy grail' of science since the Noble prize-winning work of Anfinsen…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-24 Abbi Abdel-Rehim , Oghenejokpeme Orhobor , Hang Lou , Hao Ni , Ross D. King

In Dec 2020, the results of AlphaFold2 were presented at CASP14, sparking a revolution in the field of protein structure predictions. For the first time, a purely computational method could challenge experimental accuracy for structure…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-16 Arne Elofsson

The Gene or DNA sequence in every cell does not control genetic properties on its own; Rather, this is done through translation of DNA into protein and subsequent formation of a certain 3D structure. The biological function of a protein is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Leila Khalatbari , Mohammad Reza Kangavari , Saeid Hosseini , Hongzhi Yin , Ngai-Man Cheung

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) data play a crucial role in the study of protein mutations, with contact prediction being a notable application. Existing methods are often model-based or algorithmic and typically do not incorporate…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-23 Fan Yang , Zhao Ren , Wen Zhou , Kejue Jia , Robert Jernigan

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…

Protein engineering is an emerging field in biotechnology that has the potential to revolutionize various areas, such as antibody design, drug discovery, food security, ecology, and more. However, the mutational space involved is too vast…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-28 Yuchi Qiu , Guo-Wei Wei

Proteins are essential for almost all biological processes and derive their diverse functions from complex 3D structures, which are in turn determined by their amino acid sequences. In this paper, we exploit the rich biological inductive…

Protein evolution through amino acid mutations is a cornerstone of life sciences. Recent advances in protein language models have shown rich evolutionary patterns, offering unprecedented potential for in-silicon directed evolution. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yaodong Yang , Yang Wang , Jinpeng Li , Pei Guo , Da Han , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

The Automated Protein Structure Analysis (APSA) method is used for the classification of supersecondary structures. Basis for the classification is the encoding of three-dimensional (3D) residue conformations into a 16-letter code (3D-1D…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-11-24 Sushilee Ranganathan , Dmitry Izotov , Elfi Kraka , Dieter Cremer

Attention-based models trained on protein sequences have demonstrated incredible success at classification and generation tasks relevant for artificial intelligence-driven protein design. However, we lack a sufficient understanding of how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Erik Nijkamp , Jeffrey Ruffolo , Eli N. Weinstein , Nikhil Naik , Ali Madani

Recent generative learning models applied to protein multiple sequence alignment (MSA) datasets include simple and interpretable physics-based Potts covariation models and other machine learning models such as MSA-Transformer (MSA-T). The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Kisan Khatri , Ronald M. Levy , Allan Haldane

Background:Prediction of protein three-dimensional structures from amino acid sequences is a long-standing goal in computational/molecular biology. The successful discrimination of protein folds would help to improve the accuracy of protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Y-h. Taguchi , M. Michael Gromiha