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Designing RNA molecules that interact with specific proteins is a critical challenge in experimental and computational biology. Existing computational approaches require a substantial amount of previously known interacting RNA sequences for…

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Despite significant progress in static protein structure collection and prediction, the dynamic behavior of proteins, one of their most vital characteristics, has been largely overlooked in prior research. This oversight can be attributed…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-19 Ce Liu , Jun Wang , Zhiqiang Cai , Yingxu Wang , Huizhen Kuang , Kaihui Cheng , Liwei Zhang , Qingkun Su , Yining Tang , Fenglei Cao , Limei Han , Siyu Zhu , Yuan Qi

De novo prediction of protein structures, the prediction of structures from amino-acid sequences which are not similar to those of hitherto resolved structures, has been one of the major challenges in molecular biophysics. In this paper, we…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2008-02-22 Takeshi N. Sasaki , Hikmet Cetin , Masaki Sasai

The TIM-barrel fold is one of the most versatile and ubiquitous protein folds in nature, hosting a wide variety of catalytic activities and functions while serving as a model system in protein biochemistry and engineering. This review…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-26 Julian Beck , Sergio Romero-Romero

Recent advances in geometric deep learning and generative modeling have enabled the design of novel proteins with a wide range of desired properties. However, current state-of-the-art approaches are typically restricted to generating…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-26 Vsevolod Viliuga , Leif Seute , Nicolas Wolf , Simon Wagner , Arne Elofsson , Jan Stühmer , Frauke Gräter

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have proven to be powerful tools for designing new proteins. Designing proteins that bind a pre-specified target is highly relevant to a range of medical and industrial applications. Despite the flurry…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-30 John D Boom , Matthew Greenig , Pietro Sormanni , Pietro Liò

Deep learning models for drug-like molecules and proteins overwhelmingly reuse transformer architectures designed for natural language, yet whether molecular sequences benefit from different designs has not been systematically tested. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Edward Wijaya

While generative models have excelled at creating static 3D content, the pursuit of systems that understand how objects move and respond to interactions remains a fundamental challenge. Current methods for articulated motion lie at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tianshan Zhang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Designing protein sequences with desired biological function is crucial in biology and chemistry. Recent machine learning methods use a surrogate sequence-function model to replace the expensive wet-lab validation. How can we efficiently…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-04 Zhenqiao Song , Lei Li

We develop ProxelGen, a protein structure generative model that operates on 3D densities as opposed to the prevailing 3D point cloud representations. Representing proteins as voxelized densities, or proxels, enables new tasks and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-25 Felix Faltings , Hannes Stark , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

A long-standing goal of machine-learning-based protein engineering is to accelerate the discovery of novel mutations that improve the function of a known protein. We introduce a sampling framework for evolving proteins in silico that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Patrick Emami , Aidan Perreault , Jeffrey Law , David Biagioni , Peter C. St. John

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

Designing novel proteins with desired functions is crucial in biology and chemistry. However, most existing work focus on protein sequence design, leaving protein sequence and structure co-design underexplored. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zhenqiao Song , Yunlong Zhao , Yufei Song , Wenxian Shi , Yang Yang , Lei Li

SE(3)-based generative models have shown great promise in protein geometry modeling and effective structure design. However, the field currently lacks a modularized benchmark to enable comprehensive investigation and fair comparison of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lang Yu , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Liang He

We consider controllable DNA sequence design, where sequences are generated by conditioning on specific biological properties. While language models (LMs) such as GPT and BERT have achieved remarkable success in natural language generation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Xingyu Su , Xiner Li , Yuchao Lin , Ziqian Xie , Degui Zhi , Shuiwang Ji

Protein activity is a significant characteristic for recombinant proteins which can be used as biocatalysts. High activity of proteins reduces the cost of biocatalysts. A model that can predict protein activity from amino acid sequence is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-23 X. Han , X. Wang , K. Zhou

The ability to generate complex and realistic human body animations at scale, while following specific artistic constraints, has been a fundamental goal for the game and animation industry for decades. Popular techniques include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Yi Zhou , Jingwan Lu , Connelly Barnes , Jimei Yang , Sitao Xiang , Hao li

We present Genie-CAT, a tool-augmented large-language-model (LLM) system designed to accelerate scientific hypothesis generation in protein design. Using metalloproteins (e.g., ferredoxins) as a case study, Genie-CAT integrates four…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Bruno Jacob , Khushbu Agarwal , Marcel Baer , Peter Rice , Simone Raugei

AI-assisted protein design has emerged as a critical tool for advancing biotechnology, as deep generative models have demonstrated their reliability in this domain. However, most existing models primarily utilize protein sequence or…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Changjian Zhou , Yuexi Qiu , Jia Song

Deep learning is catalyzing a scientific revolution fueled by big data, accessible toolkits, and powerful computational resources, impacting many fields including protein structural modeling. Protein structural modeling, such as predicting…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-17 Wenhao Gao , Sai Pooja Mahajan , Jeremias Sulam , Jeffrey J. Gray