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Polymer conformation generation is a critical task that enables atomic-level studies of diverse polymer materials. While significant advances have been made in designing conformation generation methods for small molecules and proteins,…

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Peptide design plays a pivotal role in therapeutics, allowing brand new possibility to leverage target binding sites that are previously undruggable. Most existing methods are either inefficient or only concerned with the target-agnostic…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-31 Xiangzhe Kong , Yinjun Jia , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu

Therapeutic peptides have proven to have great pharmaceutical value and potential in recent decades. However, methods of AI-assisted peptide drug discovery are not fully explored. To fill the gap, we propose a target-aware peptide design…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-10 Haitao Lin , Odin Zhang , Huifeng Zhao , Dejun Jiang , Lirong Wu , Zicheng Liu , Yufei Huang , Stan Z. Li

Accurately restoring topology is both challenging and crucial in tubular structure extraction tasks, such as blood vessel segmentation and road network extraction. Diverging from traditional approaches based on pixel-level classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhao Zhang , Ziwei Zhao , Dong Wang , Liwei Wang

Acquiring plausible pathways on high-dimensional structural distributions is beneficial in several domains. For example, in the drug discovery field, a protein conformational pathway, i.e. a highly probable sequence of protein structural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-04 Ziyad Oulhaj , Yoshiyuki Ishii , Kento Ohga , Kimihiro Yamazaki , Mutsuyo Wada , Yuhei Umeda , Takashi Kato , Yuichiro Wada , Hiroaki Kurihara

Recent advances in protein language models have catalyzed significant progress in peptide sequence representation. Despite extensive exploration in this field, pre-trained models tailored for peptide-specific needs remain largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ruochi Zhang , Haoran Wu , Chang Liu , Huaping Li , Yuqian Wu , Kewei Li , Yifan Wang , Yifan Deng , Jiahui Chen , Fengfeng Zhou , Xin Gao

Generative models coupled with reinforcement learning (RL), such as REINVENT and PepINVENT, have emerged as a powerful framework for de novo molecular design. During the ideation process these generative frameworks utilize various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Laura van Weesep , Sunay Chankeshwara , Leonardo De Maria , Florian David , Ola Engkvist , Gökçe Geylan

Peptide classification tasks, such as predicting toxicity and HIV inhibition, are fundamental to bioinformatics and drug discovery. Traditional approaches rely heavily on handcrafted encodings of one-dimensional (1D) peptide sequences,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Vincent Schilling , Akshat Dubey , Georges Hattab

Peptides are formed by the dehydration condensation of multiple amino acids. The primary structure of a peptide can be represented either as an amino acid sequence or as a molecular graph consisting of atoms and chemical bonds. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Zihan Liu , Ge Wang , Jiaqi Wang , Jiangbin Zheng , Stan Z. Li

Generating peptides with desired properties is crucial for drug discovery and biotechnology. Traditional sequence-based and structure-based methods often require extensive datasets, which limits their effectiveness. In this study, we…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-19 Po-Yu Liang , Xueting Huang , Tibo Duran , Andrew J. Wiemer , Jun Bai

Biologists frequently desire protein inhibitors for a variety of reasons, including use as research tools for understanding biological processes and application to societal problems in agriculture, healthcare, etc. Immunotherapy, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Po-Yu Liang , Jun Bai

A Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model encodes an object in two coupled forms: a parametric construction sequence and its resulting visible geometric shape. During iterative design, adjustments to the geometric shape inevitably require…

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Existing benchmarks for computational materials discovery primarily evaluate static predictive tasks or isolated computational sub-tasks. While valuable, these evaluations neglect the inherently iterative and adaptive nature of scientific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shreshth A Malik , Tiarnan Doherty , Panagiotis Tigas , Muhammed Razzak , Stephen J. Roberts , Aron Walsh , Yarin Gal

Designing molecular structures with desired chemical properties is an essential task in drug discovery and material design. However, finding molecules with the optimized desired properties is still a challenging task due to combinatorial…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-02 Masatsugu Yamada , Mahito Sugiyama

Despite the exciting progress in target-specific de novo protein binder design, peptide binder design remains challenging due to the flexibility of peptide structures and the scarcity of protein-peptide complex structure data. In this…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Fanhao Wang , Yuzhe Wang , Laiyi Feng , Changsheng Zhang , Luhua Lai

Generation of graphs is a major challenge for real-world tasks that require understanding the complex nature of their non-Euclidean structures. Although diffusion models have achieved notable success in graph generation recently, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jaehyeong Jo , Dongki Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful approach in materials discovery. Its major challenge is selecting features that create interpretable representations of materials, useful across multiple prediction tasks. We introduce an…

This article makes discrete masked models for the generative modeling of discrete data controllable. The goal is to generate samples of a discrete random variable that adheres to a posterior distribution, satisfies specific constraints, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wei Guo , Yuchen Zhu , Molei Tao , Yongxin Chen

Morphological profiling is a valuable tool in phenotypic drug discovery. The advent of high-throughput automated imaging has enabled the capturing of a wide range of morphological features of cells or organisms in response to perturbations…

While conventional computer vision emphasizes pixel-level and feature-based objectives, medical image analysis of intricate biological structures necessitates explicit representation of their complex topological properties. Despite their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Yousef Yeganeh , Rui Xiao , Goktug Guvercin , Nassir Navab , Azade Farshad