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Generating molecules with desired biological activities has attracted growing attention in drug discovery. Previous molecular generation models are designed as chemocentric methods that hardly consider the drug-target interaction, limiting…

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Flow-matching generative models are increasingly used to simulate cell responses to biological perturbations. However, the design space for building such models is large and underexplored. We systematically analyse the design space of flow…

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Designing novel proteins that bind to small molecules is a long-standing challenge in computational biology, with applications in developing catalysts, biosensors, and more. Current computational methods rely on the assumption that the…

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Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to efficiently discover high-affinity ligands within vast chemical spaces. However, current generative models struggle with objective misalignment and rigid sampling budgets. We present MolFORM, a…

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Proteins typically exist in complexes, interacting with other proteins or biomolecules to perform their specific biological roles. Research on single-chain protein modeling has been extensively and deeply explored, with advancements seen in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ruizhe Chen , Dongyu Xue , Xiangxin Zhou , Zaixiang Zheng , Xiangxiang Zeng , Quanquan Gu

Diffusion models can learn rich representations during data generation, showing potential for Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), but they face a trade-off between generative quality and discriminative performance. Their iterative sampling also…

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Molecular docking is an essential tool for drug design. It helps the scientist to rapidly know if two molecules, respectively called ligand and receptor, can be combined together to obtain a stable complex. We propose a new multi-objective…

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Generative modeling techniques such as Diffusion and Flow Matching have achieved significant successes in generating designable and diverse protein backbones. However, many current models are computationally expensive, requiring hundreds or…

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A significant amount of protein function requires binding small molecules, including enzymatic catalysis. As such, designing binding pockets for small molecules has several impactful applications ranging from drug synthesis to energy…

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Proteins are the fundamental macromolecules that play diverse and crucial roles in all living matter and have tremendous implications in healthcare, manufacturing, and biotechnology. Their functions are largely determined by the sequences…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-17 Boqiao Lai

Discovering heterogeneous catalysts tailored for specific reaction intermediates remains a fundamental bottleneck in materials science. While traditional trial-and-error methods and recent generative models have shown promise, they struggle…

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We introduce DrugFlow, a generative model for structure-based drug design that integrates continuous flow matching with discrete Markov bridges, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in learning chemical, geometric, and physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Arne Schneuing , Ilia Igashov , Adrian W. Dobbelstein , Thomas Castiglione , Michael Bronstein , Bruno Correia

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…

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Score-based generative models (SGMs) have proven to be powerful tools for designing new proteins. Designing proteins that bind a pre-specified target is highly relevant to a range of medical and industrial applications. Despite the flurry…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-30 John D Boom , Matthew Greenig , Pietro Sormanni , Pietro Liò

To design a drug given a biological molecule by using deep learning methods, there are many successful models published recently. People commonly used generative models to design new molecules given certain protein. LiGAN was regarded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Haotian Zhang , Linxiaoyi Wan

Searching new molecules in areas like drug discovery often starts from the core structures of candidate molecules to optimize the properties of interest. The way as such has called for a strategy of designing molecules retaining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Jaechang Lim , Sang-Yeon Hwang , Seungsu Kim , Seokhyun Moon , Woo Youn Kim

In recent years, deep learning techniques have made significant strides in molecular generation for specific targets, driving advancements in drug discovery. However, existing molecular generation methods present significant limitations:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Taojie Kuang , Qianli Ma , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Yu Wang , Qiang , Cheng , Zhixiang Ren

The computational design of novel protein structures has the potential to impact numerous scientific disciplines greatly. Toward this goal, we introduce FoldFlow, a series of novel generative models of increasing modeling power based on the…

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) has emerged as a powerful technology for bridging histology imaging with gene expression profiling. However, its application has been limited by low throughput and the need for specialized experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Tinglin Huang , Tianyu Liu , Mehrtash Babadi , Wengong Jin , Rex Ying

While there has been significant progress in evaluating and comparing different representations for learning on protein data, the role of surface-based learning approaches remains not well-understood. In particular, there is a lack of…

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