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Coarse-grained (CG) models play a crucial role in the study of protein structures, protein thermodynamic properties, and protein conformation dynamics. Due to the information loss in the coarse-graining process, backmapping from CG to…

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Protein structure prediction is pivotal for understanding the structure-function relationship of proteins, advancing biological research, and facilitating pharmaceutical development and experimental design. While deep learning methods and…

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We introduce HyperDiffusionFields (HyDiF), a framework that models 3D molecular conformers as continuous fields rather than discrete atomic coordinates or graphs. At the core of our approach is the Molecular Directional Field (MDF), a…

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A fundamental problem in drug discovery is to design molecules that bind to specific proteins. To tackle this problem using machine learning methods, here we propose a novel and effective framework, known as GraphBP, to generate 3D…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-31 Meng Liu , Youzhi Luo , Kanji Uchino , Koji Maruhashi , Shuiwang Ji

Diffusion-based generative models have recently emerged as powerful solutions for high-quality synthesis in multiple domains. Leveraging the bidirectional Markov chains, diffusion probabilistic models generate samples by inferring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Mengyi Zhao , Mengyuan Liu , Bin Ren , Shuling Dai , Nicu Sebe

Molecular structure generation is a fundamental problem that involves determining the 3D positions of molecules' constituents. It has crucial biological applications, such as molecular docking, protein folding, and molecular design. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Wenyin Zhou , Christopher Iliffe Sprague , Vsevolod Viliuga , Matteo Tadiello , Arne Elofsson , Hossein Azizpour

Solving medical imaging data scarcity through semantic image generation has attracted growing attention in recent years. However, existing generative models mainly focus on synthesizing whole-organ or large-tissue structures, showing…

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Designing novel proteins that bind to small molecules is a long-standing challenge in computational biology, with applications in developing catalysts, biosensors, and more. Current computational methods rely on the assumption that the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-19 Junqi Liu , Shaoning Li , Chence Shi , Zhi Yang , Jian Tang

The widespread application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques has significantly influenced the development of new therapeutic agents. These computational methods can be used to design and predict the properties of generated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Arthur Cerveira , Frederico Kremer , Darling de Andrade Lourenço , Ulisses B Corrêa

Generating molecules with desired biological activities has attracted growing attention in drug discovery. Previous molecular generation models are designed as chemocentric methods that hardly consider the drug-target interaction, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Stan Z. Li

Designing molecules that bind to specific target proteins is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Recent models leverage geometric constraints to generate ligand molecules that bind cohesively with specific protein pockets. However, these…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-26 Fang Sun , Zhihao Zhan , Hongyu Guo , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

Since its foundations, more than one hundred years ago, the field of structural biology has strived to understand and analyze the properties of molecules and their interactions by studying the structure that they take in 3D space. However,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-27 Gabriele Corso

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…

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Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models, but their high computation cost in iterative sampling remains a significant bottleneck. In this work, we present an in-depth and insightful study of state-of-the-art acceleration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Weizhi Gao , Zhichao Hou , Junqi Yin , Feiyi Wang , Linyu Peng , Xiaorui Liu

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) leverages the 3D structure of biomolecular targets to guide the creation of new therapeutic agents. Recent advances in generative models, including diffusion models and geometric deep learning, have…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-28 Ali Khodabandeh Yalabadi , Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay

3D generative models have shown significant promise in structure-based drug design (SBDD), particularly in discovering ligands tailored to specific target binding sites. Existing algorithms often focus primarily on ligand-target binding,…

The exploration of transition state (TS) geometries is crucial for elucidating chemical reaction mechanisms and modeling their kinetics. Recently, machine learning (ML) models have shown remarkable performance for prediction of TS…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Seonghwan Kim , Jeheon Woo , Woo Youn Kim

Recent advances in Structure-based Drug Design (SBDD) have leveraged generative models for 3D molecular generation, predominantly evaluating model performance by binding affinity to target proteins. However, practical drug discovery…

Generating novel active molecules for a given protein is an extremely challenging task for generative models that requires an understanding of the complex physical interactions between the molecule and its environment. In this paper, we…

Multimodal neuroimaging provides complementary insights for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, yet clinical datasets frequently suffer from missing modalities. We propose ACADiff, a framework that synthesizes missing brain imaging modalities…

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