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Generative modeling of peptide sequences requires navigating a discrete and highly constrained space in which many intermediate states are chemically implausible or unstable. Existing discrete diffusion and flow-based methods rely on…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-02 Shrey Goel , Pranam Chatterjee

Ligand-based drug design aims to identify novel drug candidates of similar shapes with known active molecules. In this paper, we formulated an in silico shape-conditioned molecule generation problem to generate 3D molecule structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Ziqi Chen , Bo Peng , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

Modeling the interaction between proteins and ligands and accurately predicting their binding structures is a critical yet challenging task in drug discovery. Recent advancements in deep learning have shown promise in addressing this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qizhi Pei , Kaiyuan Gao , Lijun Wu , Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Kun He , Tie-Yan Liu , Rui Yan

Figuring out small molecule binding sites in target proteins, in the resolution of either pocket or residue, is critical in many virtual and real drug-discovery scenarios. Since it is not always easy to find such binding sites based on…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-19 Daeseok Lee , Jeunghyun Byun , Bonggun Shin

Sentence Embedding stands as a fundamental task within the realm of Natural Language Processing, finding extensive application in search engines, expert systems, and question-and-answer platforms. With the continuous evolution of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Bowen Zhang , Kehua Chang , Chunping Li

The cornerstone of computational drug design is the calculation of binding affinity between two biological counterparts, especially a chemical compound, i.e., a ligand, and a protein. Predicting the strength of protein-ligand binding with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-04 Yanjun Li , Mohammad A. Rezaei , Chenglong Li , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

Is there a unified model for generating molecules considering different conditions, such as binding pockets and chemical properties? Although target-aware generative models have made significant advances in drug design, they do not consider…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Zhangyang Gao , Yuqi Hu , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

Therapeutic peptides have proven to have great pharmaceutical value and potential in recent decades. However, methods of AI-assisted peptide drug discovery are not fully explored. To fill the gap, we propose a target-aware peptide design…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-10 Haitao Lin , Odin Zhang , Huifeng Zhao , Dejun Jiang , Lirong Wu , Zicheng Liu , Yufei Huang , Stan Z. Li

Motivation: Peptide-protein interactions (PepPIs) are central to cellular regulation and peptide therapeutics, but experimental characterization remains too slow for large-scale screening. Existing methods usually emphasize either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chupei Tang , Junxiao Kong , Moyu Tang , Di Wang , Jixiu Zhai , Ronghao Xie , Shangkun Sima , Tianchi Lu

Spider silks are remarkable materials characterized by superb mechanical properties such as strength, extensibility and lightweightedness. Yet, to date, limited models are available to fully explore sequence-property relationships for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Wei Lu , David L. Kaplan , Markus J. Buehler

The breakthrough performance of large language models (LLMs) comes with major computational footprints and high deployment costs. In this paper, we progress towards resolving this problem by proposing a novel structured compression approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Eldar Kurtic , Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

Current SMILES-based diffusion models for molecule generation typically support only unimodal constraint. They inject conditioning signals at the start of the training process and require retraining a new model from scratch whenever the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yunzhe Zhang , Yifei Wang , Khanh Vinh Nguyen , Pengyu Hong

Large language models have made remarkable progress in the field of molecular science, particularly in understanding and generating functional small molecules. This success is largely attributed to the effectiveness of molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Zicheng Ma , Chuanliu Fan , Zhicong Wang , Zhenyu Chen , Xiaohan Lin , Yanheng Li , Shihao Feng , Jun Zhang , Ziqiang Cao , Yi Qin Gao

Proteins are shaped by gradual evolution under biophysical and functional constraints. Protein language models learn rich evolutionary constraints from large-scale sequences, and discrete diffusion-based protein language models~(\eg, DPLMs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xinyou Wang , Liang Hong , Jiasheng Ye , Zaixiang Zheng , Yu Li , Shujian Huang , Quanquan Gu

In cancer therapeutics, protein-metal binding mechanisms critically govern the pharmacokinetics and targeting efficacy of drugs, thereby fundamentally shaping the rational design of anticancer metallodrugs. While conventional laboratory…

Protein sequences are abundant in repeating segments, both as exact copies and as approximate segments with mutations. These repeats are important for protein structure and function, motivating decades of algorithmic work on repeat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gal Pomerants , Yaniv Nikankin , Anja Reusch , Tomer Tsaban , Ora Schueler-Furman , Yonatan Belinkov

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…

Recently, deep generative models have revealed itself as a promising way of performing de novo molecule design. However, previous research has focused mainly on generating SMILES strings instead of molecular graphs. Although current graph…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-24 Yibo Li , Liangren Zhang , Zhenming Liu

While protein language models (pLMs) have transformed biological research, the scaling laws governing their improvement remain underexplored. By adapting methodologies from NLP scaling laws, we investigated the optimal ratio between model…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-27 Yaiza Serrano , Álvaro Ciudad , Alexis Molina

Predicting the biophysical and functional properties of proteins is essential for in silico protein design. Machine learning has emerged as a promising technique for such prediction tasks. However, the relative scarcity of in vitro…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jacob Beck , Shikha Surana , Manus McAuliffe , Oliver Bent , Thomas D. Barrett , Juan Jose Garau Luis , Paul Duckworth