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The Automated Protein Structure Analysis (APSA) method is used for the classification of supersecondary structures. Basis for the classification is the encoding of three-dimensional (3D) residue conformations into a 16-letter code (3D-1D…

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The precise sequence of aminoacids plays a central role in the tertiary structure of proteins and their functional properties. The Hydrophobic-Polar lattice models have provided valuable insights regarding the energy landscape. We…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-30 K. Silpaja Chandrasekar , M. V. Sangaranarayanan

The interaction of a protein with its environment can be understood and controlled via its 3D structure. Experimental methods for protein structure determination, such as X-ray crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy, shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Axel Levy , Eric R. Chan , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Frédéric Poitevin , Ellen D. Zhong , Gordon Wetzstein

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

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

The de novo design of ligand-binding proteins with tailored functions is essential for advancing biotechnology and molecular medicine, yet existing AI approaches are limited by scarce protein-ligand complex data. To circumvent this data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhenqiao Song , Ramith Hettiarachchi , Chuan Li , Jianwen Xie , Lei Li

Recently developed deep learning techniques have significantly improved the accuracy of various speech and image recognition systems. In this paper we adapt some of these techniques for protein secondary structure prediction. We first train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Akosua Busia , Jasmine Collins , Navdeep Jaitly

Is there a foreign language describing protein sequences and structures simultaneously? Protein structures, represented by continuous 3D points, have long posed a challenge due to the contrasting modeling paradigms of discrete sequences. We…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-20 Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Jue Wang , Yufei Huang , Lirong Wu , Stan Z. Li

The intricate three-dimensional geometries of protein tertiary structures underlie protein function and emerge through a folding process from one-dimensional chains of amino acids. The exact spatial sequence and configuration of amino…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-24 Nora Molkenthin , Steffen Mühle , Antonia S J S Mey , Marc Timme

Deep generative models have emerged as a popular machine learning-based approach for inverse design problems in the life sciences. However, these problems often require sampling new designs that satisfy multiple properties of interest in…

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

Generative models have recently advanced $\textit{de novo}$ protein design by learning the statistical regularities of natural structures. However, current approaches face three key limitations: (1) Existing methods cannot jointly learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zhanghan Ni , Yanjing Li , Zeju Qiu , Bernhard Schölkopf , Hongyu Guo , Weiyang Liu , Shengchao Liu

Proteins are essential for life, and their structure determines their function. The protein secondary structure is formed by the folding of the protein primary structure, and the protein tertiary structure is formed by the bending and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Yanlin Zhou , Kai Tan , Xinyu Shen , Zheng He , Haotian Zheng

Predicting protein structure from amino acid sequence is one of the most important unsolved problems of molecular biology and biophysics.Not only would a successful prediction algorithm be a tremendous advance in the understanding of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-06-15 K. K Senapati , G. Sahoo , D. Bhaumik

Articulated objects exist widely in the real world. However, previous 3D generative methods for unsupervised part decomposition are unsuitable for such objects, because they assume a spatially fixed part location, resulting in inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yuki Kawana , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

The paper investigates a novel approach, based on Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), to predict the 3D conformation of a protein via fragments assembly. The fragments are extracted by a preprocessor-also developed for this work- from a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Alessandro Dal Palu' , Agostino Dovier , Federico Fogolari , Enrico Pontelli

Protein structure prediction can be shown to be an NP-hard problem; the number of conformations grows exponentially with the number of residues. The native conformations of proteins occupy a very small subset of these, hence an exploratory,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Mehul M. Khimasia , Peter V. Coveney

This chapter deals with approaches for protein three-dimensional structure prediction, starting out from a single input sequence with unknown struc- ture, the 'query' or 'target' sequence. Both template based and template free modelling…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-04 Sanne Abeln , Jaap Heringa , K. Anton Feenstra

Designing protein sequences of both high fitness and novelty is a challenging task in data-efficient protein engineering. Exploration beyond wild-type neighborhoods often leads to biologically implausible sequences or relies on surrogate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Michal Kmicikiewicz , Vincent Fortuin , Ewa Szczurek