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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…

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Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique for studying microscopic phenomena, but its computational cost has driven significant interest in the development of deep learning-based surrogate models. We introduce generative modeling of…

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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

Deep generative models open new avenues for simulating realistic genomic data while preserving privacy and addressing data accessibility constraints. While previous studies have primarily focused on generating gene expression or haplotype…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Sihan Xie , Thierry Tribout , Didier Boichard , Blaise Hanczar , Julien Chiquet , Eric Barrey

Protein family design emerges as a promising alternative by combining the advantages of de novo protein design and mutation-based directed evolution.In this paper, we propose ProfileBFN, the Profile Bayesian Flow Networks, for specifically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-25 Jingjing Gong , Yu Pei , Siyu Long , Yuxuan Song , Zhe Zhang , Wenhao Huang , Ziyao Cao , Shuyi Zhang , Hao Zhou , Wei-Ying Ma

The design of novel proteins has many applications but remains an attritional process with success in isolated cases. Meanwhile, deep learning technologies have exploded in popularity in recent years and are increasingly applicable to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-07 Joe G Greener , Lewis Moffat , David T Jones

Diffusion models offer a powerful means of capturing the manifold of realistic protein structures, enabling rapid design for protein engineering tasks. However, existing approaches observe critical failure modes when precise constraints are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-27 Jacob K. Christopher , Austin Seamann , Jingyi Cui , Sagar Khare , Ferdinando Fioretto

Computational protein design facilitates discovery of novel proteins with prescribed structure and functionality. Exciting designs were recently reported using novel data-driven methodologies that can be roughly divided into two categories:…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Cyril Malbranke , David Bikard , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson , Jérôme Tubiana

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

The functions of proteins and RNAs are determined by a myriad of interactions between their constituent residues, but most quantitative models of how molecular phenotype depends on genotype must approximate this by simple additive effects.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-19 Adam J. Riesselman , John B. Ingraham , Debora S. Marks

This work introduces a method to tune a sequence-based generative model for molecular de novo design that through augmented episodic likelihood can learn to generate structures with certain specified desirable properties. We demonstrate how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Marcus Olivecrona , Thomas Blaschke , Ola Engkvist , Hongming Chen

Protein interaction modeling is central to protein design, which has been transformed by machine learning with applications in drug discovery and beyond. In this landscape, structure-based de novo binder design is cast as either conditional…

As deep generative models proliferate across the AI landscape, industrial practitioners still face critical yet unanswered questions about which deep generative models best suit complex manufacturing design tasks. This work addresses this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Fouad Oubari , Raphael Meunier , Rodrigue Décatoire , Mathilde Mougeot

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

Protein design is a fundamental challenge in biotechnology, aiming to design novel sequences with specific functions within the vast space of possible proteins. Recent advances in deep generative models have enabled function-based protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Nuowei Liu , Jiahao Kuang , Yanting Liu , Tao Ji , Changzhi Sun , Man Lan , Yuanbin Wu

The stability of model proteins with designed sequences is assessed in terms of the number of sequences (obtained from the designed sequence through mutations), which fold into 5the ``native'' conformation. By a complete enumeration of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A Broglia , G. Tiana , H. E. Roman , E. Vigezzi , E. I. Shakhnovich

Proteins are dynamic, adopting ensembles of conformations. The nature of this conformational heterogenity is imprinted in the raw electron density measurements obtained from X-ray crystallography experiments. Fitting an ensemble of protein…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-19 Sai Advaith Maddipatla , Nadav Bojan Sellam , Sanketh Vedula , Ailie Marx , Alex Bronstein

Recently, deep generative models have revealed itself as a promising way of performing de novo molecule design. However, previous research has focused mainly on generating SMILES strings instead of molecular graphs. Although current graph…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-24 Yibo Li , Liangren Zhang , Zhenming Liu

This article makes discrete masked models for the generative modeling of discrete data controllable. The goal is to generate samples of a discrete random variable that adheres to a posterior distribution, satisfies specific constraints, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wei Guo , Yuchen Zhu , Molei Tao , Yongxin Chen

Automated design synthesis has the potential to revolutionize the modern engineering design process and improve access to highly optimized and customized products across countless industries. Successfully adapting generative Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Lyle Regenwetter , Amin Heyrani Nobari , Faez Ahmed