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Despite the prevalence and many successes of deep learning applications in de novo molecular design, the problem of peptide generation targeting specific proteins remains unsolved. A main barrier for this is the scarcity of the high-quality…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Tong Lin , Sijie Chen , Ruchira Basu , Dehu Pei , Xiaolin Cheng , Levent Burak Kara

The de novo design of proteins refers to creating proteins with specific structures and functions that do not naturally exist. In recent years, the accumulation of high-quality protein structure and sequence data and technological…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-24 Yujie Qin , Ming He , Changyong Yu , Ming Ni , Xian Liu , Xiaochen Bo

Generating molecules that bind to specific proteins is an important but challenging task in drug discovery. Previous works usually generate atoms in an auto-regressive way, where element types and 3D coordinates of atoms are generated one…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-16 Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Odin Zhang , Siqi Ma , Meng Liu , Xuanjing Li , Lirong Wu , Jishui Wang , Tingjun Hou , Stan Z. Li

Protein binder design has been transformed by hallucination-based methods that optimize structure prediction confidence metrics, such as the interface predicted TM-score (ipTM), via backpropagation. However, these metrics do not reflect the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Divya Nori , Anisha Parsan , Caroline Uhler , Wengong Jin

Peptides offer great biomedical potential and serve as promising drug candidates. Currently, the majority of approved peptide drugs are directly derived from well-explored natural human peptides. It is quite necessary to utilize advanced…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-29 Yipin Lei , Xu Wang , Meng Fang , Han Li , Xiang Li , Jianyang Zeng

We introduce AbDiffuser, an equivariant and physics-informed diffusion model for the joint generation of antibody 3D structures and sequences. AbDiffuser is built on top of a new representation of protein structure, relies on a novel…

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

Protein binder design is central to therapeutics, diagnostics, and synthetic biology, yet practical deployment remains challenging due to fragmented workflows, high computational costs, and complex tool integration. We present…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-29 Jie Gao , Jun Li , Jing Hu , Shanzhuo Zhang , Kunrui Zhu , Yueyang Huang , Xiaonan Zhang , Xiaomin Fang

Recent advances in de novo protein binder design have enabled increasing experimental validation, yet reported in silico metrics remain difficult to interpret or compare across studies due to non-standardized evaluation protocols. We…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-25 Cong Liu , Milong Ren , Jiaqi Guan , Chengyue Gong , Jinyuan Sun , Xinshi Chen , Wenzhi Xiao

Peptide classification tasks, such as predicting toxicity and HIV inhibition, are fundamental to bioinformatics and drug discovery. Traditional approaches rely heavily on handcrafted encodings of one-dimensional (1D) peptide sequences,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Vincent Schilling , Akshat Dubey , Georges Hattab

Recent advances in protein language models have catalyzed significant progress in peptide sequence representation. Despite extensive exploration in this field, pre-trained models tailored for peptide-specific needs remain largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ruochi Zhang , Haoran Wu , Chang Liu , Huaping Li , Yuqian Wu , Kewei Li , Yifan Wang , Yifan Deng , Jiahui Chen , Fengfeng Zhou , Xin Gao

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

The advent of deep learning has introduced efficient approaches for de novo protein sequence design, significantly improving success rates and reducing development costs compared to computational or experimental methods. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yutong Hu , Yang Tan , Andi Han , Lirong Zheng , Liang Hong , Bingxin Zhou

De novo peptide sequencing from mass spectrometry data is an important method for protein identification. Recently, various deep learning approaches were applied for de novo peptide sequencing and DeepNovoV2 is one of the represetative…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-18 Cheng Ge , Yi Lu , Jia Qu , Liangxu Xie , Feng Wang , Hong Zhang , Ren Kong , Shan Chang

We present PepTune, a multi-objective discrete diffusion model for simultaneous generation and optimization of therapeutic peptide SMILES. Built on the Masked Discrete Language Model (MDLM) framework, PepTune ensures valid peptide…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-03 Sophia Tang , Yinuo Zhang , Pranam Chatterjee

Proteins are the main workhorses of biological functions in a cell, a tissue, or an organism. Identification and quantification of proteins in a given sample, e.g. a cell type under normal/disease conditions, are fundamental tasks for the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Ngoc Hieu Tran , Zachariah Levine , Lei Xin , Baozhen Shan , Ming Li

Recent remarkable advancements in geometric deep generative models, coupled with accumulated structural data, enable structure-based drug design (SBDD) using only target protein information. However, existing models often struggle to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-09 Joongwon Lee , Wonho Zhung , Jisu Seo , Woo Youn Kim

Dual-target therapeutic strategies have become a compelling approach and attracted significant attention due to various benefits, such as their potential in overcoming drug resistance in cancer therapy. Considering the tremendous success…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xiangxin Zhou , Jiaqi Guan , Yijia Zhang , Xingang Peng , Liang Wang , Jianzhu Ma

In recent years, there has been an explosion of research on the application of deep learning to the prediction of various peptide properties, due to the significant development and market potential of peptides. Molecular dynamics has…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-19 Zihan Liu , Jiaqi Wang , Yun Luo , Shuang Zhao , Wenbin Li , Stan Z. Li

Recently, 3D generative models have shown promising performances in structure-based drug design by learning to generate ligands given target binding sites. However, only modeling the target-ligand distribution can hardly fulfill one of the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-22 Xiangxin Zhou , Xiwei Cheng , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu