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We propose an artificial life framework aimed at facilitating the emergence of intelligent organisms. In this framework there is no explicit notion of an agent: instead there is an environment made of atomic elements. These elements contain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Karol Gregor , Frederic Besse

The dynamic nature of proteins, influenced by ligand interactions, is essential for comprehending protein function and progressing drug discovery. Traditional structure-based drug design (SBDD) approaches typically target binding sites with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Xiangxin Zhou , Yi Xiao , Haowei Lin , Xinheng He , Jiaqi Guan , Yang Wang , Qiang Liu , Feng Zhou , Liang Wang , Jianzhu Ma

Modeling biological sequences such as DNA, RNA, and proteins is crucial for understanding complex processes like gene regulation and protein synthesis. However, most current models either focus on a single type or treat multiple types of…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-16 Weixi Xiang , Xueting Han , Xiujuan Chai , Jing Bai

Discovery of new knowledge is increasingly data-driven, predicated on a team's ability to collaboratively create, find, analyze, retrieve, and share pertinent datasets over the duration of an investigation. This is especially true in the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit , Aref Shafaeibejestan , Joshua Chudy , Karl Czajkowski , Robert Schuler , Carl Kesselman

Molecular biology is a nanotechnology that works--it has worked for billions of years and in an amazing variety of circumstances. At its core is a system for acquiring, processing and communicating information that is universal, from…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-21 Apoorva D. Patel

This paper demonstrates that language models are strong structure-based protein designers. We present LM-Design, a generic approach to reprogramming sequence-based protein language models (pLMs), that have learned massive sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Zaixiang Zheng , Yifan Deng , Dongyu Xue , Yi Zhou , Fei YE , Quanquan Gu

Building a representative model of a complex system remains a highly challenging problem. While by now there is basic understanding of most physical domains, model design is often hindered by lack of detail, for example concerning model…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-09-01 Leon Lettermann , Alejandro Jurado , Timo Betz , Florentin Wörgötter , Sebastian Herzog

Proteins are sequences of amino acids that serve as the basic building blocks of living organisms. Despite rapidly growing databases documenting structural and functional information for various protein sequences, our understanding of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-06 Weihang Dai

Generating molecules that bind to specific proteins is an important but challenging task in drug discovery. Previous works usually generate atoms in an auto-regressive way, where element types and 3D coordinates of atoms are generated one…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-16 Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Odin Zhang , Siqi Ma , Meng Liu , Xuanjing Li , Lirong Wu , Jishui Wang , Tingjun Hou , Stan Z. Li

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping computational and network biology by enabling new approaches to decode cellular communication networks. We introduce Hierarchical Molecular Language Models (HMLMs), a novel framework that models…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-16 Hasi Hays , Yue Yu , William J. Richardson

Background: Identification of the interactions and regulatory relations between biomolecules play pivotal roles in understanding complex biological systems and the mechanisms underlying diverse biological functions. However, the collection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Gilchan Park , Byung-Jun Yoon , Xihaier Luo , Vanessa López-Marrero , Shinjae Yoo , Shantenu Jha

Protein engineering is experiencing a paradigmatic shift through the integration of geometric deep learning into computational design workflows. While traditional strategies, such as rational design and directed evolution, have enabled…

The natural world is full of complex systems characterized by intricate relations between their components: from social interactions between individuals in a social network to electrostatic interactions between atoms in a protein.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mathilde Papillon , Sophia Sanborn , Mustafa Hajij , Nina Miolane

Gene/protein interactions provide critical information for a thorough understanding of cellular processes. Recently, considerable interest and effort has been focused on the construction and analysis of genome-wide gene networks. The large…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-25 Xin Li , Hsinchun Chen , Zan Huang , Hua Su , Jesse D. Martinez

Generating new molecules with specified chemical and biological properties via generative models has emerged as a promising direction for drug discovery. However, existing methods require extensive training/fine-tuning with a large dataset,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-25 Zichao Wang , Weili Nie , Zhuoran Qiao , Chaowei Xiao , Richard Baraniuk , Anima Anandkumar

"Epigenetic Tracking" is a model of systems of biological cells, able to generate arbitrary 2 or 3-dimensional cellular shapes of any kind and complexity (in terms of number of cells, number of colours, etc.) starting from a single cell. If…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-11-18 Alessandro Fontana

Background: A partially random target selection method was developed to design and produce affinity reagents (target) to any protein query. It is based on the recent concept of Proteomic Code (for review see Biro, 2007 [1]) which suggests…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-07-22 Jan C Biro

Ergonomics is a key factor to consider when designing control architectures for effective physical collaborations between humans and humanoid robots. In contrast, ergonomic indexes are often overlooked in the robot design phase, which leads…

Machine learning and especially deep learning has had an increasing impact on molecule and materials design. In particular, given the growing access to an abundance of high-quality small molecule data for generative modeling for drug…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Shehtab Zaman , Denis Akhiyarov , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Kenneth Chiu

The rational design of molecules with desired properties is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. Generative neural networks have emerged as a powerful approach to sample novel molecules from a learned distribution. Here, we propose a…