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Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to design small-molecule ligands that bind with high affinity and specificity to pre-determined protein targets. Generative SBDD methods leverage structural data of drugs in complex with their protein…

We introduce Concept Bottleneck Protein Language Models (CB-pLM), a generative masked language model with a layer where each neuron corresponds to an interpretable concept. Our architecture offers three key benefits: i) Control: We can…

Through evolution, nature has presented a set of remarkable protein materials, including elastins, silks, keratins and collagens with superior mechanical performances that play crucial roles in mechanobiology. However, going beyond natural…

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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

Learning effective protein representations is critical in a variety of tasks in biology such as predicting protein functions. Recent sequence representation learning methods based on Protein Language Models (PLMs) excel in sequence-based…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-19 Zuobai Zhang , Chuanrui Wang , Minghao Xu , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Aurélie Lozano , Payel Das , Jian Tang

A fundamental challenge in protein design is the trade-off between generating structural diversity while preserving motif biological function. Current state-of-the-art methods, such as partial diffusion in RFdiffusion, often fail to resolve…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-22 Kevin Michalewicz , Chen Jin , Philip Alexander Teare , Tom Diethe , Mauricio Barahona , Barbara Bravi , Asher Mullokandov

We study a fundamental problem in computational chemistry known as molecular conformation generation, trying to predict stable 3D structures from 2D molecular graphs. Existing machine learning approaches usually first predict distances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Chence Shi , Shitong Luo , Minkai Xu , Jian Tang

While generative models have recently become ubiquitous in many scientific areas, less attention has been paid to their evaluation. For molecular generative models, the state-of-the-art examines their output in isolation or in relation to…

Binding affinity optimization is crucial in early-stage drug discovery. While numerous machine learning methods exist for predicting ligand potency, their comparative efficacy remains unclear. This study evaluates the performance of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-30 Nikolai Schapin , Carles Navarro , Albert Bou , Gianni De Fabritiis

Human creativity follows a perceptual process, moving from abstract ideas to finer details during creation. While 3D generative models have advanced dramatically, models specifically designed to assist human imagination in 3D creation --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Juil Koo , Wei-Tung Lin , Chanho Park , Chanhyeok Park , Minhyuk Sung

Acquiring and annotating sufficient labeled data is crucial in developing accurate and robust learning-based models, but obtaining such data can be challenging in many medical image segmentation tasks. One promising solution is to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Kun Han , Yifeng Xiong , Chenyu You , Pooya Khosravi , Shanlin Sun , Xiangyi Yan , James Duncan , Xiaohui Xie

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

Given large amount of real photos for training, Convolutional neural network shows excellent performance on object recognition tasks. However, the process of collecting data is so tedious and the background are also limited which makes it…

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Proteins power a vast array of functional processes in living cells. The capability to create new proteins with designed structures and functions would thus enable the engineering of cellular behavior and development of protein-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-08 Yeqing Lin , Mohammed AlQuraishi

Recent advances in geometric deep learning and generative modeling have enabled the design of novel proteins with a wide range of desired properties. However, current state-of-the-art approaches are typically restricted to generating…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-26 Vsevolod Viliuga , Leif Seute , Nicolas Wolf , Simon Wagner , Arne Elofsson , Jan Stühmer , Frauke Gräter

Cryo-EM reconstruction algorithms seek to determine a molecule's 3D density map from a series of noisy, unlabeled 2D projection images captured with an electron microscope. Although reconstruction algorithms typically model the 3D volume as…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-06 Ellen D. Zhong , Adam Lerer , Joseph H. Davis , Bonnie Berger

We introduce MeshGPT, a new approach for generating triangle meshes that reflects the compactness typical of artist-created meshes, in contrast to dense triangle meshes extracted by iso-surfacing methods from neural fields. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yawar Siddiqui , Antonio Alliegro , Alexey Artemov , Tatiana Tommasi , Daniele Sirigatti , Vladislav Rosov , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Recent data-efficient molecular generation approaches exploit graph grammars to introduce interpretability into the generative models. However, grammar learning therein relies on expert annotation or unreliable heuristics for algorithmic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Michael Sun , Weize Yuan , Gang Liu , Wojciech Matusik , Jie Chen

Prediction of a molecule's 3D conformer ensemble from the molecular graph holds a key role in areas of cheminformatics and drug discovery. Existing generative models have several drawbacks including lack of modeling important molecular…