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Computational protein design is experiencing a transformation driven by AI/ML. However, the range of potential protein sequences and structures is astronomically vast, even for moderately sized proteins. Hence, achieving convergence between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Aymen Alsaadi , Jonathan Ash , Mikhail Titov , Matteo Turilli , Andre Merzky , Shantenu Jha , Sagar Khare

Protein folding, which dictates the protein structure from its amino acid sequence, is half a century old problem of biology. The function of the protein correlates with its structure, emphasizing the need of understanding protein folding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Jaya Vasavi P , Soham Bopardikar , Avinash D , Ashwini K , Kalyan Dasgupta , Sanjib Senapati

In this study, we propose an analytic statistical mechanics approach to solve a fundamental problem in biological physics called protein design. Protein design is an inverse problem of protein structure prediction, and its solution is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-26 Tomoei Takahashi , George Chikenji , Kei Tokita

Computational protein design (CPD) offers transformative potential for bioengineering, but current deep CPD models, focused on universal domains, struggle with function-specific designs. This work introduces a novel CPD paradigm tailored…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-28 Jiangbin Zheng , Ge Wang , Han Zhang , Stan Z. Li

This paper presents a method of reconstruction a primary structure of a protein that folds into a given geometrical shape. This method predicts the primary structure of a protein and restores its linear sequence of amino acids in the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-04 Andrii Riazanov , Mikhail Karasikov , Sergei Grudinin

Proteins are miniature machines whose function depends on their three-dimensional (3D) structure. Determining this structure computationally remains an unsolved grand challenge. A major bottleneck involves selecting the most accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-30 Stephan Eismann , Patricia Suriana , Bowen Jing , Raphael J. L. Townshend , Ron O. Dror

Generative modeling has become a central paradigm in protein research, extending machine learning beyond structure prediction toward sequence design, backbone generation, inverse folding, and biomolecular interaction modeling. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Senura Hansaja Wanasekara , Minh-Duong Nguyen , Xiaochen Liu , Nguyen H. Tran , Ken-Tye Yong

Protein folding is one of the age-old biological problems that refers to the mechanism of understanding and predicting how a protein's linear sequence of amino acids folds into its specific three dimensional structure.This structure is…

In this paper, we consider the computational protein design (CPD) problem, which is usually modeled as a 0/1 programming and is extremely challenging due to its combinatorial properties. We propose an efficient algorithm for solving it.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Yukai Zheng , Weikun Chen , Qingna Li

Lattice models have been used extensively over the past thirty years to examine the principles of protein folding and design. These models can be used to determine the conformation of the lowest energy fold out of a large number of possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Tomáš Babej , Christopher Ing , Mark Fingerhuth

The protein folding problem has attracted an increasing attention from physicists. The problem has a flavor of statistical mechanics, but possesses the most common feature of most biological problems -- the profound effects of evolution. I…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chao Tang

We review algorithms for protein design in general. Although these algorithms have a rich combinatorial, geometric, and mathematical structure, they are almost never covered in computer science classes. Furthermore, many of these algorithms…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Mark A. Hallen , Bruce R. Donald

Motivation. Protein design aims to identify sequences compatible with a given protein fold but incompatible to any alternative folds. To select the correct sequences and to guide the search process, a design scoring function is critically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Changyu Hu , Xiang Li , Jie Liang

Proteins are the fundamental macromolecules that play diverse and crucial roles in all living matter and have tremendous implications in healthcare, manufacturing, and biotechnology. Their functions are largely determined by the sequences…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-17 Boqiao Lai

Deep learning approaches have produced substantial breakthroughs in fields such as image classification and natural language processing and are making rapid inroads in the area of protein design. Many generative models of proteins have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Alexey Strokach , Philip M. Kim

Recent advancements in machine learning techniques for protein folding motivate better results in its inverse problem -- protein design. In this work we introduce a new graph mimetic neural network, MimNet, and show that it is possible to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-09 Moshe Eliasof , Tue Boesen , Eldad Haber , Chen Keasar , Eran Treister

Protein design has the potential to revolutionize biotechnology and medicine. While most efforts have focused on proteins with well-defined structures, increased recognition of the functional significance of intrinsically disordered…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Giulio Tesei , Francesco Pesce , Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

While modern biotechnologies allow synthesizing new proteins and function measurements at scale, efficiently exploring a protein sequence space and engineering it remains a daunting task due to the vast sequence space of any given protein.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-15 Jiahao Qiu , Hui Yuan , Jinghong Zhang , Wentao Chen , Huazheng Wang , Mengdi Wang

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

Understanding the principles of protein folding is a cornerstone of computational biology, with implications for drug design, bioengineering, and the understanding of fundamental biological processes. Lattice protein folding models offer a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-08 Shoummo Ahsan Khandoker , Estelle M. Inack , Mohamed Hibat-Allah