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Proteins are fundamental biological entities mediating key roles in cellular function and disease. This paper introduces a multi-scale graph construction of a protein -- HoloProt -- connecting surface to structure and sequence. The surface…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vignesh Ram Somnath , Charlotte Bunne , Andreas Krause

Designing protein sequences that fold into a target 3D structure, known as protein inverse folding, is a fundamental challenge in protein engineering. While recent deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance by recovering…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-03 Mengdi Liu , Xiaoxue Cheng , Zhangyang Gao , Hong Chang , Cheng Tan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Recent advances in coarse-grained lattice and off-lattice protein models are reviewed. The sequence dependence of thermodynamical folding properties are investigated and evidence for non-randomness of the binary sequences of good folders…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Peterson

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

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

Deep learning is catalyzing a scientific revolution fueled by big data, accessible toolkits, and powerful computational resources, impacting many fields including protein structural modeling. Protein structural modeling, such as predicting…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-17 Wenhao Gao , Sai Pooja Mahajan , Jeremias Sulam , Jeffrey J. Gray

Despite recent breakthroughs in understanding how protein sequence relates to structure and function, considerably less attention has been paid to the general features of protein surfaces beyond those regions involved in binding and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-26 John M. McBride , Aleksei Koshevarnikov , Marta Siek , Bartosz A. Grzybowski , Tsvi Tlusty

Proteins are essential components of all living organisms and play a critical role in cellular survival. They have a broad range of applications, from clinical treatments to material engineering. This versatility has spurred the development…

Applications · Statistics 2025-03-28 Chenyu Ren , Daihai He , Jian Huang

We introduce a generative model for protein backbone design utilizing geometric products and higher order message passing. In particular, we propose Clifford Frame Attention (CFA), an extension of the invariant point attention (IPA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Simon Wagner , Leif Seute , Vsevolod Viliuga , Nicolas Wolf , Frauke Gräter , Jan Stühmer

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

We developed a novel method based on the Fourier analysis of protein molecular surfaces to speed up the analysis of the vast structural data generated in the post-genomic era. This method computes the power spectrum of surfaces of the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-18 C. Sofia Carvalho , Dimitrios Vlachakis , Georgia Tsiliki , Vasileios Megalooikonomou , Sophia Kossida

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

Computational protein design has a wide variety of applications. Despite its remarkable success, designing a protein for a given structure and function is still a challenging task. On the other hand, the number of solved protein structures…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-26 Jingxue Wang , Huali Cao , John Z. H. Zhang , Yifei Qi

Proteins are inherently multiscale physical systems whose functional properties emerge from coordinated structural organization across multiple spatial resolutions, ranging from atomic interactions to global fold topology. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Viet Thanh Duy Nguyen , John K. Johnstone , Truong-Son Hy

Nature creates diverse proteins through a 'divide and assembly' strategy. Inspired by this idea, we introduce ProteinWeaver, a two-stage framework for protein backbone design. Our method first generates individual protein domains and then…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-28 Yiming Ma , Fei Ye , Yi Zhou , Zaixiang Zheng , Dongyu Xue , Quanquan Gu

The design of protein sequences with desired functionalities is a fundamental task in protein engineering. Deep generative methods, such as autoregressive models and diffusion models, have greatly accelerated the discovery of novel protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zitai Kong , Yiheng Zhu , Yinlong Xu , Hanjing Zhou , Mingzhe Yin , Jialu Wu , Hongxia Xu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Tingjun Hou , Jian Wu

Inverse protein folding generates valid amino acid sequences that can fold into a desired protein structure, with recent deep-learning advances showing strong potential and competitive performance. However, challenges remain, such as…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-29 Peizhen Bai , Filip Miljković , Xianyuan Liu , Leonardo De Maria , Rebecca Croasdale-Wood , Owen Rackham , Haiping Lu

Protein structure prediction and folding are fundamental to understanding biology, with recent deep learning advances reshaping the field. Diffusion-based generative models have revolutionized protein design, enabling the creation of novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yogesh Verma , Markus Heinonen , Vikas Garg

De novo protein structure prediction from amino acid sequence is one of the most challenging problems in computational biology. As one of the extensively explored mathematical models for protein folding, Hydrophobic-Polar (HP) model enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yanjun Li , Hengtong Kang , Ketian Ye , Shuyu Yin , Xiaolin Li

The protein design problem involves finding polypeptide sequences folding into a given threedimensional structure. Its rigorous algorithmic solution is computationally demanding, involving a nested search in sequence and structure spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Veronica Panizza , Philipp Hauke , Cristian Micheletti , Pietro Faccioli