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Advances in generative artificial intelligence are transforming how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are designed and discovered. This Perspective introduces the shift from laborious enumeration of MOF candidates to generative approaches…

Genetic algorithms, computer programs that simulate natural evolution, are increasingly applied across many disciplines. They have been used to solve various optimisation problems from neural network architecture search to strategic games,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Aymeric Vie , Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis , Doyne J. Farmer

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

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

Designing proteins de novo with tailored structural, physicochemical, and functional properties remains a grand challenge in biotechnology, medicine, and materials science, due to the vastness of sequence space and the complex coupling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fiona Y. Wang , Di Sheng Lee , David L. Kaplan , Markus J. Buehler

Deep learning has transformed protein design, enabling accurate structure prediction, sequence optimization, and de novo protein generation. Advances in single-chain protein structure prediction via AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, ESMFold, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Gregory W. Kyro , Tianyin Qiu , Victor S. Batista

Although machine learning has been successfully used to propose novel molecules that satisfy desired properties, it is still challenging to explore a large chemical space efficiently. In this paper, we present a conditional molecular design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Seokho Kang , Kyunghyun Cho

Protein design is a fundamental challenge in biotechnology, aiming to design novel sequences with specific functions within the vast space of possible proteins. Recent advances in deep generative models have enabled function-based protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Nuowei Liu , Jiahao Kuang , Yanting Liu , Tao Ji , Changzhi Sun , Man Lan , Yuanbin Wu

Computational protein design facilitates discovery of novel proteins with prescribed structure and functionality. Exciting designs were recently reported using novel data-driven methodologies that can be roughly divided into two categories:…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Cyril Malbranke , David Bikard , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson , Jérôme Tubiana

Generative AI (GenAI) models excel in their ability to recognize patterns in existing data and generate new and unexpected content. Recent advances have motivated applications of GenAI tools (e.g., Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT) to professional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Matthew K. Hong , Shabnam Hakimi , Yan-Ying Chen , Heishiro Toyoda , Charlene Wu , Matt Klenk

Generating molecules, both in a directed and undirected fashion, is a huge part of the drug discovery pipeline. Genetic algorithms (GAs) generate molecules by randomly modifying known molecules. In this paper we show that GAs are very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Austin Tripp , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

We present SeedProteo, a diffusion-based model for de novo all-atom protein design. We demonstrate how to repurpose a cutting-edge folding architecture into a powerful generative design framework by effectively integrating self-conditioning…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-25 Wei Qu , Yiming Ma , Fei Ye , Chan Lu , Yi Zhou , Kexin Zhang , Lan Wang , Minrui Gui , Quanquan Gu

Discovering functional crystalline materials entails navigating an immense combinatorial design space. While recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the sampling of chemically plausible compositions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hyunsoo Park , Aron Walsh

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

Geometric deep learning has recently achieved great success in non-Euclidean domains, and learning on 3D structures of large biomolecules is emerging as a distinct research area. However, its efficacy is largely constrained due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fang Wu , Lirong Wu , Dragomir Radev , Jinbo Xu , Stan Z. Li

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has become a transformative approach in bioinformatics that often enables advancements in genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, structural biology, and drug discovery. To systematically identify…

We review the recent progress in computational approaches to protein design which builds on advances in statistical-mechanical protein folding theory. In particular, we evaluate the degeneracy of the protein code (i.e. how many sequences…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Shakhnovich

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

Generative machine learning models are increasingly being used to design novel proteins for therapeutic and biotechnological applications. However, the current methods mostly focus on the design of proteins with a fixed backbone structure,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-04 Petr Kouba , Joan Planas-Iglesias , Jiri Damborsky , Jiri Sedlar , Stanislav Mazurenko , Josef Sivic

In this work, we introduce a method to fine-tune a Transformer-based generative model for molecular de novo design. Leveraging the superior sequence learning capacity of Transformers over Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), our model can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Pengcheng Xu , Tao Feng , Tianfan Fu , Siddhartha Laghuvarapu , Jimeng Sun