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Inverse protein folding -- the task of predicting a protein sequence from its backbone atom coordinates -- has surfaced as an important problem in the "top down", de novo design of proteins. Contemporary approaches have cast this problem as…

Inverse protein folding is challenging due to its inherent one-to-many mapping characteristic, where numerous possible amino acid sequences can fold into a single, identical protein backbone. This task involves not only identifying viable…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-08 Kai Yi , Bingxin Zhou , Yiqing Shen , Pietro Liò , Yu Guang Wang

Designing protein sequences with optimal energetic stability is a key challenge in protein inverse folding, as current deep learning methods are primarily trained by maximizing sequence recovery rates, often neglecting the energy of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Dingyi Rong , Haotian Lu , Wenzhuo Zheng , Fan Zhang , Shuangjia Zheng , Ning Liu

Protein inverse folding-that is, predicting an amino acid sequence that will fold into the desired 3D structure-is an important problem for structure-based protein design. Machine learning based methods for inverse folding typically use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yasha Ektefaie , Olivia Viessmann , Siddharth Narayanan , Drew Dresser , J. Mark Kim , Armen Mkrtchyan

Protein inverse folding aims to identify viable amino acid sequences that can fold into given protein structures, enabling the design of novel proteins with desired functions for applications in drug discovery, enzyme engineering, and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-05 Taoyu Wu , Yu Guang Wang , Yiqing Shen

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

While deep generative models show promise for learning inverse protein folding directly from data, the lack of publicly available structure-sequence pairings limits their generalization. Previous improvements and data augmentation efforts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangbin Zheng , Stan Z. Li

Protein inverse folding aims to design an amino acid sequence that will fold into a given backbone structure, serving as a central task in protein design. Two main paradigms have been widely explored. Template-based methods exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiran Zhu , Changxi Chi , Hongxin Xiang , Wenjie Du , Xiaoqi Wang , Jun Xia

The ability to computationally generate novel yet physically foldable protein structures could lead to new biological discoveries and new treatments targeting yet incurable diseases. Despite recent advances in protein structure prediction,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-28 Kevin E. Wu , Kevin K. Yang , Rianne van den Berg , James Y. Zou , Alex X. Lu , Ava P. Amini

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

Inverse Protein Folding (IPF) is a critical subtask in the field of protein design, aiming to engineer amino acid sequences capable of folding correctly into a specified three-dimensional (3D) conformation. Although substantial progress has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yanting Li , Jiyue Jiang , Zikang Wang , Ziqian Lin , Dongchen He , Yuheng Shan , Yanruisheng Shao , Jiayi Li , Xiangyu Shi , Jiuming Wang , Yanyu Chen , Yimin Fan , Han Li , Yu Li

Designing protein sequences that fold into a target 3-D structure, termed as the inverse folding problem, is central to protein engineering. However, it remains challenging due to the vast sequence space and the importance of local…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-17 Sazan Mahbub , Souvik Kundu , Eric P. Xing

MOTIVATION: Proteins fold into complex structures that are crucial for their biological functions. Experimental determination of protein structures is costly and therefore limited to a small fraction of all known proteins. Hence, different…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-18 David Menéndez Hurtado , Karolis Uziela , Arne Elofsson

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 inverse folding, the task of predicting amino acid sequences for desired structures, is pivotal for de novo protein design. However, existing GNN-based methods typically suffer from restricted receptive fields that miss long-range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Sisi Yuan , Jiehuang Chen , Junchuang Cai , Dong Xu , Xueliang Li , Zexuan Zhu , Junkai Ji

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

The recent breakthrough of AlphaFold3 in modeling complex biomolecular interactions, including those between proteins and ligands, nucleotides, or metal ions, creates new opportunities for protein design. In so-called inverse protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-22 Kai Yi , Kiarash Jamali , Sjors H. W. Scheres

Proteins are the basic building blocks of life. They usually perform functions by folding to a particular structure. Understanding the folding process could help the researchers to understand the functions of proteins and could also help to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Jianzhu Ma

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

Developing accurate and efficient coarse-grained representations of proteins is crucial for understanding their folding, function, and interactions over extended timescales. Our methodology involves simulating proteins with molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-11 Carles Navarro , Maciej Majewski , Gianni de Fabritiis
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