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Disordered proteins and nucleic acids play key roles in cellular function and disease. Here we review recent advances in the computational exploration of the conformational dynamics of flexible biomolecules. We focus on hierarchical chain…

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Characterization of proteins with intrinsic or unfolded state disorder comprises a new frontier in structural biology, requiring the characterization of diverse and dynamic structural ensembles. We introduce a comprehensive Bayesian…

Understanding how proteins structurally interact is crucial to modern biology, with applications in drug discovery and protein design. Recent machine learning methods have formulated protein-small molecule docking as a generative problem…

The complexity of condensed matter arises from emergent behaviors that cannot be understood by analyzing individual constituents in isolation. While traditional condensed-matter approaches-developed primarily for ideal crystalline…

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Rapid progress in deep learning has spurred its application to bioinformatics problems including protein structure prediction and design. In classic machine learning problems like computer vision, progress has been driven by standardized…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-04 Mohammed AlQuraishi

Significant progress in computer hardware and software have enabled molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to model complex biological phenomena such as protein folding. However, enabling MD simulations to access biologically relevant…

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Solving parametric Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) for a broad range of parameters is a critical challenge in scientific computing. To this end, neural operators, which \textcolor{black}{predicts the PDE solution with variable PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Weiheng Zhong , Hadi Meidani

Recent studies attracted the attention on the inherent structure landscape (ISL) approach as a reduced description of proteins allowing to map their full thermodynamic properties. However, the analysis has been so far limited to a single…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-22 Johannnes-Geert Hagmann , Naoko Nakagawa , Michel Peyrard

Considering the significance of proteins, computational protein science has always been a critical scientific field, dedicated to revealing knowledge and developing applications within the protein sequence-structure-function paradigm. In…

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Molecular docking is a key computational tool utilized to predict the binding conformations of small molecules to protein targets, which is fundamental in the design of novel drugs. Despite recent advancements in geometric deep…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-01 Jiaxian Yan , Zaixi Zhang , Kai Zhang , Qi Liu

The Unfolded Protein Response is the cell mechanism for maintaining the balance of properly folded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum , the specialized cellular compartment. Although it is largely studied from a biological point of view,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-05 Nicole Luchetti , Alessandro Loppini , Margherita Anna Grazia Matarrese , Letizia Chiodo , Simonetta Filippi

Intrinsically disordered regions of proteins play a crucial role in cell signaling and drug discovery. However, their high structural flexibility makes accurate residue-level prediction challenging. Existing methods often rely on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shaokuan Wang , Pengshan Cui , Yining Qian , An-Yang Lu , Xianpeng Wang

The formation of biomolecular condensates inside cells often involve intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), and several of these IDPs are also capable of forming droplet-like dense assemblies on their own, through liquid-liquid phase…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Daniel Nilsson , Anders Irbäck

Motivation: Thanks to the recent advances in structural biology, nowadays three-dimensional structures of various proteins are solved on a routine basis. A large portion of these contain structural repetitions or internal symmetries. To…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-30 Guillaume Pagès , Sergei Grudinin

Over the years, advances in experimental and computational methods have helped us to understand the role of thermodynamic, kinetic and active (chaperone-aided) effects in coordinating the folding steps required to achieving a knotted native…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-20 Sophie E. Jackson , Antonio Suma , Cristian Micheletti

Inverse protein folding, the process of designing sequences that fold into a specific 3D structure, is crucial in bio-engineering and drug discovery. Traditional methods rely on experimentally resolved structures, but these cover only a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-27 Igor Melnyk , Aurelie Lozano , Payel Das , Vijil Chenthamarakshan

Determining the 3D structures of proteins is essential in understanding their behavior in the cellular environment. Computational methods of predicting protein structures have advanced, but assessing prediction accuracy remains a challenge.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-29 Musa Azeem , Homayoun Valafar

Advances in deep learning have opened an era of abundant and accurate predicted protein structures; however, similar progress in protein ensembles has remained elusive. This review highlights several recent research directions towards…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-23 Bowen Jing , Bonnie Berger , Tommi Jaakkola

Since proteins carry out biological processes by interacting with other proteins, analyzing the structure of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks could explain complex biological mechanisms, evolution, and disease. Similarly, studying…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-04-22 Vesna Memisevic , Tijana Milenkovic , Natasa Przulj

Deep learning has made significant progress in protein structure prediction, advancing the development of computational biology. However, despite the high accuracy achieved in predicting single-chain structures, a significant number of…

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