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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 growing significance of RNA engineering in diverse biological applications has spurred interest in developing AI methods for structure-based RNA design. While diffusion models have excelled in protein design, adapting them for RNA…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Divya Nori , Wengong Jin

The recent breakthrough of AlphaFold3 in modeling complex biomolecular interactions, including those between proteins and ligands, nucleotides, or metal ions, creates new opportunities for protein design. In so-called inverse protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-22 Kai Yi , Kiarash Jamali , Sjors H. W. Scheres

AlphaFold2 (AF2) has emerged in recent years as a groundbreaking innovation that has revolutionized several scientific fields, in particular structural biology, drug design and the elucidation of disease mechanisms. Many scientists now use…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-23 Ragousandirane Radjasandirane , Alexandre G. de Brevern

Protein-RNA interactions are of vital importance to a variety of cellular activities. Both experimental and computational techniques have been developed to study the interactions. Due to the limitation of the previous database, especially…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-24 Junkang Wei , Siyuan Chen , Licheng Zong , Xin Gao , Yu Li

The evolutionary trajectory of a protein through sequence space is constrained by function and three-dimensional (3D) structure. Residues in spatial proximity tend to co-evolve, yet attempts to invert the evolutionary record to identify…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-13 Debora S. Marks , Lucy J. Colwell , Robert Sheridan , Thomas A. Hopf , Andrea Pagnani , Riccardo Zecchina , Chris Sander

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have enabled multi-modal systems to model and translate diverse information spaces. Extending beyond text and vision, we introduce OneProt, a multi-modal AI for proteins that integrates structural,…

Pre-trained models have been successful in many protein engineering tasks. Most notably, sequence-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on protein fitness prediction while structure-based models have been used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Antonia Boca , Simon Mathis

Protein language models often take into consideration the alignment between a protein sequence and its textual description. However, they do not take structural information into consideration. Traditional methods treat sequence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Aditya Ranganath , Hasin Us Sami , Kowshik Thopalli , Bhavya Kailkhura , Wesam Sakla

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

We seek to understand the interplay between amino acid sequence and local structure in proteins. Are some amino acids unique in their ability to fit harmoniously into certain local structures? What is the role of sequence in sculpting the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-29 Tatjana Škrbić , Amos Maritan , Achille Giacometti , Jayanth R. Banavar

This paper investigates the application of the transformer architecture in protein folding, as exemplified by DeepMind's AlphaFold project, and its implications for the understanding of so-called large language models. The prevailing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Fabian Offert , Paul Kim , Qiaoyu Cai

Prediction of protein secondary structure from the amino acid sequence is a classical bioinformatics problem. Common methods use feed forward neural networks or SVMs combined with a sliding window, as these models does not naturally handle…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-06 Søren Kaae Sønderby , Ole Winther

The AlphaFold series has transformed protein structure prediction with remarkable accuracy, often matching experimental methods. AlphaFold2, AlphaFold-Multimer, and the latest AlphaFold3 represent significant strides in predicting single…

Recent years have seen tremendous developments in the use of machine learning models to link amino acid sequence, structure and function of folded proteins. These methods are, however, rarely applicable to the wide range of proteins and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-27 Sören von Bülow , Giulio Tesei , Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

Understanding the relationship between antibody sequence, structure and function is essential for the design of antibody-based therapeutics and research tools. Recently, machine learning (ML) models mostly based on the application of large…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-29 Kevin Michalewicz , Mauricio Barahona , Barbara Bravi

Natural protein sequences somehow encode the structural forms that these molecules adopt. Recent developments in structure-prediction are agnostic to the mechanisms by which proteins fold and represent them as static objects. However, the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-26 Ezequiel A. Galpern , Federico Caamaño , Diego U. Ferreiro

Biological processes, functions, and properties are intricately linked to the ensemble of protein conformations, rather than being solely determined by a single stable conformation. In this study, we have developed P2DFlow, a generative…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Yaowei Jin , Qi Huang , Ziyang Song , Mingyue Zheng , Dan Teng , Qian Shi

AlphaFold 3 represents a transformative advancement in computational biology, enhancing protein structure prediction through novel multi-scale transformer architectures, biologically informed cross-attention mechanisms, and geometry-aware…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-27 Alireza Abbaszadeh , Armita Shahlaee

We present a sequence-based probabilistic formalism that directly addresses co-operative effects in networks of interacting positions in proteins, providing significantly improved contact prediction, as well as accurate quantitative…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-07-12 Alan Lapedes , Bertrand Giraud , Christopher Jarzynski