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While DeepMind has tentatively solved protein folding, its inverse problem -- protein design which predicts protein sequences from their 3D structures -- still faces significant challenges. Particularly, the lack of large-scale standardized…

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Language Models (LMs) excel in understanding textual descriptions of proteins, as evident in biomedical question-answering tasks. However, their capability falters with raw protein data, such as amino acid sequences, due to a deficit in…

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Studying the function of proteins is important for understanding the molecular mechanisms of life. The number of publicly available protein structures has increasingly become extremely large. Still, the determination of the function of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Wajdi Dhifli , Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo

Protein language models have excelled in a variety of tasks, ranging from structure prediction to protein engineering. However, proteins are highly diverse in functions and structures, and current state-of-the-art models including the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-27 Chang Ma , Haiteng Zhao , Lin Zheng , Jiayi Xin , Qintong Li , Lijun Wu , Zhihong Deng , Yang Lu , Qi Liu , Lingpeng Kong

Advancements in AI for science unlocks capabilities for critical drug discovery tasks such as protein-ligand binding affinity prediction. However, current models overfit to existing oversimplified datasets that does not represent naturally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ming-Hsiu Wu , Ziqian Xie , Shuiwang Ji , Degui Zhi

In recent years, deep learning techniques have made significant strides in molecular generation for specific targets, driving advancements in drug discovery. However, existing molecular generation methods present significant limitations:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Taojie Kuang , Qianli Ma , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Yu Wang , Qiang , Cheng , Zhixiang Ren

SE(3)-based generative models have shown great promise in protein geometry modeling and effective structure design. However, the field currently lacks a modularized benchmark to enable comprehensive investigation and fair comparison of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lang Yu , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Liang He

Effective representations of protein sequences are widely recognized as a cornerstone of machine learning-based protein design. Yet, protein bioengineering poses unique challenges for sequence representation, as experimental datasets…

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Regional prompting, or compositional generation, which enables fine-grained spatial control, has gained increasing attention for its practicality in real-world applications. However, previous methods either introduce additional trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zhennan Chen , Yajie Li , Haofan Wang , Zhibo Chen , Zhengkai Jiang , Jun Li , Qian Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Protein sequence design must balance designability, defined as the ability to recover a target backbone, with multiple, often competing, developability properties such as solubility, thermostability, and expression. Existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiaoyang Hou , Junqi Liu , Chence Shi , Xin Liu , Zhi Yang , Jian Tang

With the development of AI-Generated Content (AIGC), text-to-audio models are gaining widespread attention. However, it is challenging for these models to generate audio aligned with human preference due to the inherent information density…

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Enzyme design plays a crucial role in both industrial production and biology. However, this field faces challenges due to the lack of comprehensive benchmarks and the complexity of enzyme design tasks, leading to a dearth of systematic…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-21 Jiangbin Zheng , Han Zhang , Qianqing Xu , An-Ping Zeng , Stan Z. Li

Protein structures and functions are determined by a contiguous arrangement of amino acid sequences. Designing novel protein sequences and structures with desired geometry and functions is a complex task with large state spaces. Here we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Xeerak Agha , Nihang Fu , Jianjun Hu

The design of RNA molecules that interact with specific proteins is a critical challenge in experimental and computational biology. Despite recent progress in natural language modeling and deep learning-based protein design, there remains…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-26 Roman Klypa , Alberto Bietti , Sergei Grudinin

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

Gaze-annotated facial data is crucial for training deep neural networks (DNNs) for gaze estimation. However, obtaining these data is labor-intensive and requires specialized equipment due to the challenge of accurately annotating the gaze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Nerea Aranjuelo , Siyu Huang , Ignacio Arganda-Carreras , Luis Unzueta , Oihana Otaegui , Hanspeter Pfister , Donglai Wei

Large language models applied to vast biological datasets have the potential to transform biology by uncovering disease mechanisms and accelerating drug development. However, current models are often siloed, trained separately on…

Understanding protein structure-function relationships is a key challenge in computational biology, with applications across the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. While it is known that protein structure directly impacts protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-02 Nicolas Swenson , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan , Aydin Buluc , Dmitriy Morozov , Katherine Yelick

Understanding how residue variations affect protein stability is crucial for designing functional proteins and deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying disease-related mutations. Recent advances in protein language models (PLMs) have…

Protein sequence design is a challenging problem in protein engineering, which aims to discover novel proteins with useful biological functions. Directed evolution is a widely-used approach for protein sequence design, which mimics the…

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