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Protein dynamics play a crucial role in protein biological functions and properties, and their traditional study typically relies on time-consuming molecular dynamics (MD) simulations conducted in silico. Recent advances in generative…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-02 Jiarui Lu , Xiaoyin Chen , Stephen Zhewen Lu , Aurélie Lozano , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Payel Das , Jian Tang

Excitement at the prospect of using data-driven generative models to sample configurational ensembles of biomolecular systems stems from the extraordinary success of these models on a diverse set of high-dimensional sampling tasks. Unlike…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-06 Shriram Chennakesavalu , Grant M. Rotskoff

In Dec 2020, the results of AlphaFold2 were presented at CASP14, sparking a revolution in the field of protein structure predictions. For the first time, a purely computational method could challenge experimental accuracy for structure…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-16 Arne Elofsson

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

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and multidomain proteins with flexible linkers show a high level of structural heterogeneity and are best described by ensembles consisting of multiple conformations with associated thermodynamic…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-13 F. Emil Thomasen , Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

This paper presents a novel approach for predicting the relative populations of protein conformations using AlphaFold 2, an AI-powered method that has revolutionized biology by enabling the accurate prediction of protein structures. While…

Protein structure prediction has reached revolutionary levels of accuracy on single structures, yet distributional modeling paradigms are needed to capture the conformational ensembles and flexibility that underlie biological function.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-06 Bowen Jing , Ezra Erives , Peter Pao-Huang , Gabriele Corso , Bonnie Berger , Tommi Jaakkola

In recent years, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have transformed structural biology, particularly protein structure prediction. Though AI-based methods, such as AlphaFold (AF), often predict single conformations of proteins with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-22 Devlina Chakravarty , Myeongsang Lee , Lauren L. Porter

Recent years have witnessed a surge in the development of protein foundation models, significantly improving performance in protein prediction and generative tasks ranging from 3D structure prediction and protein design to conformational…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-08 Fei Ye , Zaixiang Zheng , Dongyu Xue , Yuning Shen , Lihao Wang , Yiming Ma , Yan Wang , Xinyou Wang , Xiangxin Zhou , Quanquan Gu

Consistency and reliability are crucial for conducting AI research. Many famous research fields, such as object detection, have been compared and validated with solid benchmark frameworks. After AlphaFold2, the protein folding task has…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-01 Jaemyung Lee , Kyeongtak Han , Jaehoon Kim , Hasun Yu , Youhan Lee

Models such as AlphaFold2 and OpenFold have transformed protein structure prediction, yet their inner workings remain poorly understood. We present a methodology to systematically evaluate the contribution of individual OpenFold components…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-20 Tyler L. Hayes , Giri P. Krishnan

Protein folding models have achieved groundbreaking results typically via a combination of integrating domain knowledge into the architectural blocks and training pipelines. Nonetheless, given the success of generative models across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuyang Wang , Jiarui Lu , Navdeep Jaitly , Josh Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

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

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 structure generative models excel at predicting single protein static structures from sequence, but routinely fail to capture the correct conformational state of protein complexes, critical for protein design and induced proximity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Alon Shtrikman , Nitzan Simchi , Michal Ran Shchory , Sagie Brodsky , Eran Seger , Kirill Pevzner

Protein structure prediction and folding are fundamental to understanding biology, with recent deep learning advances reshaping the field. Diffusion-based generative models have revolutionized protein design, enabling the creation of novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yogesh Verma , Markus Heinonen , Vikas Garg

Structural biology has long been dominated by the one sequence, one structure, one function paradigm, yet many critical biological processes - from enzyme catalysis to membrane transport - depend on proteins that adopt multiple…

Proteins perform critical processes in all living systems: converting solar energy into chemical energy, replicating DNA, as the basis of highly performant materials, sensing and much more. While an incredible range of functionality has…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-29 Leonardo V. Castorina , Rokas Petrenas , Kartic Subr , Christopher W. Wood

The use of generative machine learning models, trained on the experimentally resolved structures deposited in the protein data bank, is an attractive approach to sampling conformational ensembles of proteins. However, the ensembles…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-22 Akashnathan Aranganathan , Eric R. Beyerle

Accurate protein structural ensembles can be determined with metainference, a Bayesian inference method that integrates experimental information with prior knowledge of the system and deals with all sources of uncertainty and errors as well…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-24 Thomas Löhr , Carlo Camilloni , Massimiliano Bonomi , Michele Vendruscolo