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In recent years, there has been an explosion of research on the application of deep learning to the prediction of various peptide properties, due to the significant development and market potential of peptides. Molecular dynamics has…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-19 Zihan Liu , Jiaqi Wang , Yun Luo , Shuang Zhao , Wenbin Li , Stan Z. Li

Peptides, short chains of amino acid residues, play a vital role in numerous biological processes by interacting with other target molecules, offering substantial potential in drug discovery. In this work, we present PepFlow, the first…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-04 Jiahan Li , Chaoran Cheng , Zuofan Wu , Ruihan Guo , Shitong Luo , Zhizhou Ren , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Peptides are recognized for their varied self-assembly behaviors, forming a wide array of structures and geometries, such as spheres, fibers, and hydrogels, each presenting a unique set of material properties. The functionalities of these…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-15 Sarah K. Yorke , Zhenze Yang , Aviad Levin , Alice Ray , Jeremy Owusu Boamah , Tuomas P. J. Knowles , Markus J. Buehler

Target-specific peptides, such as conotoxins, exhibit exceptional binding affinity and selectivity toward ion channels and receptors. However, their therapeutic potential remains underutilized due to the limited diversity of natural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-07 Cheng Ge , Han-Shen Tae , Zhenqiang Zhang , Lu Lu , Zhijie Huang , Yilin Wang , Tao Jiang , Wenqing Cai , Shan Chang , David J. Adams , Rilei Yu

Peptides are ubiquitous and important biologically derived molecules, that have been found to self-assemble to form a wide array of structures. Extensive research has explored the impacts of both internal chemical composition and external…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-11 Zhenze Yang , Sarah K. Yorke , Tuomas P. J. Knowles , Markus J. Buehler

Peptides offer great biomedical potential and serve as promising drug candidates. Currently, the majority of approved peptide drugs are directly derived from well-explored natural human peptides. It is quite necessary to utilize advanced…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-29 Yipin Lei , Xu Wang , Meng Fang , Han Li , Xiang Li , Jianyang Zeng

Structure-based drug design has seen significant advancements with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the generation of hit and lead compounds. However, most AI-driven approaches neglect the importance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xinheng He , Yijia Zhang , Haowei Lin , Xingang Peng , Xiangzhe Kong , Mingyu Li , Jianzhu Ma

Peptide compounds demonstrate considerable potential as therapeutic agents due to their high target affinity and low toxicity, yet their drug development is constrained by their low membrane permeability. Molecular weight and peptide length…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Shuang Wu , Meijie Wang , Lun Yu

In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various domains beyond traditional text generation. In this work, we introduce PeptideGPT, a protein language model tailored to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Aayush Shah , Chakradhar Guntuboina , Amir Barati Farimani

Target proteins that lack accessible binding pockets and conformational stability have posed increasing challenges for drug development. Induced proximity strategies, such as PROTACs and molecular glues, have thus gained attention as…

Peptide-based drugs can bind to protein interaction sites that small molecules often cannot, and are easier to produce than large protein drugs. However, designing effective peptide binders is difficult. A typical peptide has an enormous…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-19 Xiaoqiong Xia , Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

Therapeutic peptides show promise in targeting previously undruggable binding sites, with recent advancements in deep generative models enabling full-atom peptide co-design for specific protein receptors. However, the critical role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Fang Wu , Zhengyuan Zhou , Shuting Jin , Xiangxiang Zeng , Jure Leskovec , Jinbo Xu

We present PepTune, a multi-objective discrete diffusion model for simultaneous generation and optimization of therapeutic peptide SMILES. Built on the Masked Discrete Language Model (MDLM) framework, PepTune ensures valid peptide…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-03 Sophia Tang , Yinuo Zhang , Pranam Chatterjee

Self-assembly of dilute sequence-defined macromolecules is a complex phenomenon in which the local arrangement of chemical moieties can lead to the formation of long-range structure. The dependence of this structure on the sequence…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-08 Debjyoti Bhattacharya , Devon C. Kleeblatt , Antonia Statt , Wesley F. Reinhart

Deep learning holds a big promise for optimizing existing peptides with more desirable properties, a critical step towards accelerating new drug discovery. Despite the recent emergence of several optimized Antimicrobial peptides(AMP)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-06 Li Wang , Xiangzheng Fu , Jiahao Yang , Xinyi Zhang , Xiucai Ye , Yiping Liu , Tetsuya Sakurai , Xiangxiang Zeng

Cyclic peptides, characterized by geometric constraints absent in linear peptides, offer enhanced biochemical properties, presenting new opportunities to address unmet medical needs. However, designing target-specific cyclic peptides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Dapeng Jiang , Xiangzhe Kong , Jiaqi Han , Mingyu Li , Rui Jiao , Wenbing Huang , Stefano Ermon , Jianzhu Ma , Yang Liu

In this work, we introduce a polymer discovery platform to efficiently design polymers with tailored properties, exemplified by the discovery of high-performance polymer electrolytes. The platform integrates three core components: a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Arash Khajeh , Xiangyun Lei , Weike Ye , Zhenze Yang , Daniel Schweigert , Ha-Kyung Kwon

Given the emerging global threat of antimicrobial resistance, new methods for next-generation antimicrobial design are urgently needed. We report a peptide generation framework PepCVAE, based on a semi-supervised variational autoencoder…

Peptides, short chains of amino acids, interact with target proteins, making them a unique class of protein-based therapeutics for treating human diseases. Recently, deep generative models have shown great promise in peptide generation.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-21 Jiahan Li , Tong Chen , Shitong Luo , Chaoran Cheng , Jiaqi Guan , Ruihan Guo , Sheng Wang , Ge Liu , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Electronically-active organic molecules have demonstrated great promise as novel soft materials for energy harvesting and transport. Self-assembled nanoaggregates formed from $\pi$-conjugated oligopeptides composed of an aromatic core…

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