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Protein fitness optimization involves finding a protein sequence that maximizes desired quantitative properties in a combinatorially large design space of possible sequences. Recent advances in steering protein generative models (e.g.,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-22 Jason Yang , Wenda Chu , Daniel Khalil , Raul Astudillo , Bruce J. Wittmann , Frances H. Arnold , Yisong Yue

Deep models trained on a single source domain often fail catastrophically under distribution shifts, a critical challenge in Single Domain Generalization (SDG). While existing methods focus on augmenting source data or learning invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Marzi Heidari , Yuhong Guo

Structured prediction requires models to generate ontology-constrained labels, grounded evidence, and valid structure under ambiguity, label skew, and heterogeneous group difficulty. We present a two-part framework for controllable…

Protein-protein interaction networks provide a graph-level view of cellular organization, yet their functional modules are overlapping, noisy, and difficult to interpret from cluster assignments alone. Existing community-detection methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sima Soltani , Mehrdad Jalali , Yahya Forghani

Signaling proteins are an important topic in drug development due to the increased importance of finding fast, accurate and cheap methods to evaluate new molecular targets involved in specific diseases. The complexity of the protein…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-11 Carlos Fernandez-Lozano , Ruben F. Cuinas , Jose A. Seoane , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Julian Dorado , Cristian R. Munteanu

In this work, we propose a novel centrality metric, referred to as star centrality, which incorporates information from the closed neighborhood of a node, rather than solely from the node itself, when calculating its topological importance.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-15 Chrysafis Vogiatzis , Mustafa Can Camur

Gene studies are crucial for fields such as protein structure prediction, drug discovery, and cancer genomics, yet they face challenges in fully utilizing the vast and diverse information available. Gene studies require clean, factual…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yuwei Miao , Yuzhi Guo , Hehuan Ma , Jingquan Yan , Feng Jiang , Weizhi An , Jean Gao , Junzhou Huang

Proteins perform much of the work in living organisms, and consequently the development of efficient computational methods for protein representation is essential for advancing large-scale biological research. Most current approaches…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-09 Francesco Ceccarelli , Lorenzo Giusti , Sean B. Holden , Pietro Liò

Accurate protein function prediction requires integrating heterogeneous intrinsic signals (e.g., sequence and structure) with noisy extrinsic contexts (e.g., protein-protein interactions and GO term annotations). However, two key challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Runjie Zheng , Zhen Wang , Anjie Qiao , Jiancong Xie , Jiahua Rao , Yuedong Yang

Discovery gene-disease links is important in biology and medicine areas, enabling disease identification and drug repurposing. Machine learning approaches accelerate this process by leveraging biological knowledge represented in ontologies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Catarina Canastra , Cátia Pesquita

The core challenge of de novo protein design lies in creating proteins with specific functions or properties, guided by certain conditions. Current models explore to generate protein using structural and evolutionary guidance, which only…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-13 Chaohao Yuan , Songyou Li , Geyan Ye , Yikun Zhang , Long-Kai Huang , Wenbing Huang , Wei Liu , Jianhua Yao , Yu Rong

Protein language models (PLMs) learn probability distributions over natural protein sequences. By learning from hundreds of millions of natural protein sequences, protein understanding and design capabilities emerge. Recent works have shown…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Timothy Fei Truong , Tristan Bepler

Motivation: In the last few years a growing interest in biology has been shifting towards the problem of optimal information extraction from the huge amount of data generated via large scale and high-throughput techniques. One of the most…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 M. Leone , A. Pagnani

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) govern nearly all cellular processes, yet computational methods for identifying binding partners typically produce ranked predictions without mechanistic justification. This creates a fundamental barrier…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-22 Kingsley Yeon , Xuefeng Liu , Promit Ghosal

The last decade has seen the advent and consolidation of ontology based tools for the identification and biological interpretation of classes of genes, such as the Gene Ontology. The information accumulated time-by-time and included in the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-25 Salvatore Miccichè

Existing data-centric methods for protein science generally cannot sufficiently capture and leverage biology knowledge, which may be crucial for many protein tasks. To facilitate research in this field, we create ProteinKG65, a knowledge…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-15 Siyuan Cheng , Xiaozhuan Liang , Zhen Bi , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Protein function prediction is dominated by representations grounded in sequence and static structure, neither of which captures the collective vibrational dynamics through which proteins act. Here we introduce frequency-space mechanics, a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Charles B Reilly

Decision trees are a crucial class of models offering robust predictive performance and inherent interpretability across various domains, including healthcare, finance, and logistics. However, current tree induction methods often face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Tennison Liu , Nicolas Huynh , Mihaela van der Schaar

Current protein language models (PLMs) learn protein representations mainly based on their sequences, thereby well capturing co-evolutionary information, but they are unable to explicitly acquire protein functions, which is the end goal of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-06 Minghao Xu , Xinyu Yuan , Santiago Miret , Jian Tang

Predictive process monitoring is a process mining task aimed at forecasting information about a running process trace, such as the most correct next activity to be executed. In medical domains, predictive process monitoring can provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Christopher Irwin , Marco Dossena , Giorgio Leonardi , Stefania Montani